US conductor admits taking $150,000 from sex fiend Jeffrey Epstein
NewsThe conductor Leon Botstein, who is president of Bard College, has been confronted by the Wall Street Journal with a $150,000 gift that he accepted from the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Botstein, 76, had previously said that apart from an unsought $75,000 and 66 laptops, Mr. Epstein had not donated anything to Bard.
Botstein now says he took the money and later gave it to Bard as part of his own $1m personal gift.
Bard College issued a statement:’Had the extent and horror of Epstein’s crimes been known, Bard would not have accepted his support.’
Epstein died in a New York jail in August 2019.
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