If you don't know that a person is bad, then you just don't know. People didn't know Bundy was a serial killer, and we shouldn't fault them for not knowing. You don't know what you don't know. That's not a fault. That's not something you have to apologize for.
Frankly, nobody seems to have given lark about this guy until the new broke again this time. I'm not sure if it was his connections with many obviously famous people and the time peroid this took place, but before the MeToo movement it seems like many famous people had things like this swept under the rug or people looked the other way. I'm sure it's still happening, but hopefully more light will be shed on bad people in positions of wealth and power.
Even if both of those had been appropriate, his sentence fair and he was making obvious efforts to avoid past behavior, you couldn't be sure that you weren't taking money that was generated from the trafficking of other human beings. That's where Ito fucked up, plain and simple.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein#Conviction_and...
If they didn't know they were a pedophile, then they didn't willingly associate with a pedophile.
He's either lying or he was willfully ignorant, both of which amount to the same complete disregard of ethics.
By the same token, will the organizations that fight trafficking take Epstein-tainted money?