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USA - Bill Gates and the staff
of his charitable foundation met with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
more than two dozen times even as employees expressed concerns about the
reputational risk of working with him, an external review commissioned by the Gates
Foundation found.
The conversations appeared to
focus on a public health fund that never materialized and a grant to the
International Peace Institute, which was run by an associate of Epstein.
The roughly 30 meetings, which
took place from 2011 to 2014, included several visits to Epstein’s Manhattan
townhouse and one meeting on the Gates Foundation campus, according to the
review by law firm WilmerHale. The review found no evidence the foundation paid
Epstein or did anything illegal. The foundation released a three-page summary
of WilmerHale’s report Tuesday and did not say if it would release the full
version.
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