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Devil Child

(2,728 posts)
Sat Oct 12, 2019, 11:18 PM Oct 2019

Bill Gates Met With Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past

Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender who committed suicide in prison, managed to lure an astonishing array of rich, powerful and famous men into his orbit.

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Mr. Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, whose $100 billion-plus fortune has endowed the world’s largest charitable organization, has done his best to minimize his connections to Mr. Epstein. “I didn’t have any business relationship or friendship with him,” he told The Wall Street Journal last month.

In fact, beginning in 2011, Mr. Gates met with Mr. Epstein on numerous occasions — including at least three times at Mr. Epstein’s palatial Manhattan townhouse, and at least once staying late into the night, according to interviews with more than a dozen people familiar with the relationship, as well as documents reviewed by The New York Times.

Employees of Mr. Gates’s foundation also paid multiple visits to Mr. Epstein’s mansion. And Mr. Epstein spoke with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and JPMorgan Chase about a proposed multibillion-dollar charitable fund — an arrangement that had the potential to generate enormous fees for Mr. Epstein.


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates.html
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Bill Gates Met With Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past (Original Post) Devil Child Oct 2019 OP
Well that's disappointing. Wonder what other names will come out? brush Oct 2019 #1
Power corrupts empedocles Oct 2019 #2
If I had done that, I would NEVER admit it RainCaster Oct 2019 #3
These "philanthropist" types bring their harmful amoral business practices to their charities... RockRaven Oct 2019 #4
Gates also meets with Trump on a regular basis. Farmer-Rick Oct 2019 #5

RainCaster

(10,865 posts)
3. If I had done that, I would NEVER admit it
Sat Oct 12, 2019, 11:39 PM
Oct 2019

That's like saying that you have the clap, or that you like little girls.

RockRaven

(14,958 posts)
4. These "philanthropist" types bring their harmful amoral business practices to their charities...
Sat Oct 12, 2019, 11:39 PM
Oct 2019

and that is the MOST charitable interpretation of this story.

Farmer-Rick

(10,154 posts)
5. Gates also meets with Trump on a regular basis.
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 12:24 AM
Oct 2019

At least he did when the orange bafoon first took office.

Both of these men are in the same club. The filthy rich club and it does not include us. But it does mean they support and enable each other.

Like I always say, if America's filthy rich capitalist kings did Not want Traitor Trump and his Slovenian sex worker to represent the US, they wouldn't be there. Gates alone has enough money to single handedly force Trump out.

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