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The Epstein Files

File 147 - MIT Coded Epstein's Donations as 'Anonymous' to Bypass Its Own Donor Ban

The Epstein Files

NBN.fm

True Crime, News, History

4.0737 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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This episode traces Joi Ito and MIT Media Lab's acceptance of Epstein funding through the Epstein document archive, examining what the primary sources reveal about their connection to Jeffrey Epstein's network. Sources for this episode are available at: https://nbn.fm/epstein-files/episode/ep147 About The Epstein Files The Epstein Files is an AI-generated podcast analyzing the 3.5 million pages released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA). All claims are grounded in primary source...

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0:00.0

3 million pages of evidence, thousands of unsealed flight logs,

0:10.0

millions of data points, names, themes and timelines connected.

0:16.0

You are listening to the Epstein files, the world's first AI-native investigation into the case

0:23.6

that traditional journalism simply could not handle.

0:30.9

Welcome back to the Epstein Files. Last time we looked at File 146 to Hide Air. Today we are

0:36.5

analyzing File 147 anonymous donor.

0:39.3

As always, every document and source we reference is available at Epsteinfiles.fm.

0:45.1

So let us start with internal MIT Media Lab emails, because those documents established that Joy Edo knowingly accepted Epstein donations

0:52.8

after his 2008 sex offender conviction while deliberately structuring them as anonymous gifts.

0:58.2

Right. And to establish the factual baseline here, we rely directly on the 2019 investigation by Ronan Farrow, which was subsequently corroborated by MIT's own internal institutional investigation.

1:09.0

Yeah.

1:09.6

We are also looking at the primary source communications release in the EFTA archives, so the

1:13.7

chronology is not in dispute.

1:15.1

Right.

1:15.3

The timeline is locked.

1:16.2

Exactly.

1:16.7

In 2008, Jeffrey Epstein entered a guilty plea to state charges of procuring a minor

1:21.3

for prostitution.

1:22.5

He served 13 months of an 18-month sentence in Florida.

1:25.6

He subsequently registered as a sex offender. That is the

1:28.1

legal baseline. The institutional relationship with the MIT Media Lab, and specifically with its director,

1:33.8

Joy Ito, commenced after this conviction was already a matter of global public record.

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