Epstein Assisted Noam Chomsky, Botstein with Financial Transactions
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I wonder if it’s also worth considering that a lot of people had no idea what Epstein had really been up to. I personally wouldn’t do business with a guy who served time for trying to prostitute a minor, though. I don’t think there’s a clean slate after that, or that a jail sentence would resolve issues in a person capable of that kind of behaviour.
I have no idea what their interactions were like or what the context was either. Who knows. I’ve certainly interacted with people I didn’t feel comfortable with at times, usually because circumstances made it difficult not to.
It is a really bad look for someone with Chomsky's reputation but to go beyond that is witch hunting. Pretty straight forward witch hunting.
Anyone and everyone in Epstein's orbit needs to come clean. I don't care about wealth, political affiliation, anything. If they were involved in any way, shape or form, and had the ability to whistleblow on a large scale (and had the clout and eyeballs to back it up) , and didn't, they need to go down, as well as publicly name their co-conspirators.
Anything else is just more evidence that we live in a society where certain people are untouchable no matter how blatant and nefarious their actions are.
Even moreso, if you hang out with rock musicians, it's probably guaranteed that you know people in both categories... (I seem to remember some North American rock event that had to leave almost 25% of the bands at the US border because they weren't allowed to enter Canada due to various legal convictions.)
In addition, one would naturally assume that someone guilty of all the crap Epstein was wouldn't be walking around free. The fact that Epstein was free was almost certainly because he was an intelligence asset.
Wouldn’t this have been like 100% for drug possession charges? Which most people are generally and understandably not too morally upset about, especially if it’s drugs like marijuana or cocaine?
Rock musicians are notorious for that sort of illegal behavior, certainly, but not for anything worse AFAIK? Unless you’re referring to violent gang activity, though that is normally reserved for a couple other genres…
He managed to get _legal guardianship_ of a 16 yo girl when he was 20 something.
> Misley’s suit directly references Tyler’s memoir, in which he recalled he “almost took a teen bride” and that the underage girl’s parents “signed a paper over for me to have custody, so I wouldn’t get arrested if I took her out of state. I took her on tour with me.”
I'm not a Tyler fan and know very little about his work other than the Aerosmith Collab with Run DMC, but I've always thought that song had very suspect lyrics, literally invoking the idea of sex with school girls.
There's so many failures of reasonable behavior to unpack here. I understand that times have changed, but I can't see how anybody ever thought any of this was OK. Even Walk This Way, it's very clear what the song is about. Don't care how catchy it may be.
I can only conclude that most people either don't really listen to the lyrics of something, or they can't actually process what they mean.
I'm sure there are more.
Most of these I knew about, but some I didn't. Yikes.
While there are quite a few rock musicians notorious for having sex with really young girls, young musicians banging girls a bit shy of 18 years old is not uncommon.
However, California is 18 and New York, Illinois and Texas are 17. That covers a LOT of the population of the US.
I can assure you that people like Bill Gates have staff that check these things.
Just because their close relationship ended before the internet got really going like it is now doesn't mean it didn't happen.
The scheme concocted for Botstein I can understand why "an Epstein" was involved
Why does one need help from "an Epstein" just to transfer money? Like Chomsky needed?
Can't you just contact a bank and they will handle it?