A recent Wall Street Journal expos has revealed that several high-profile individuals met with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after his conviction.
The report cites Epstein's calendar, which shows that a CIA director, renowned leftist Noam Chomsky, Obama's White House counsel, and a member of the Rothschild family were among those who had meetings with Epstein.
According to the report, Epstein had three meetings with William Burns in 2014, when Burns served as the deputy secretary of state. In 2021, President Joe Biden appointed Burns as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
The Wall Street Journal stated that Burns initially met Epstein in Washington and later visited the convicted pedophile's townhouse in Manhattan.
CIA spokesperson Tammy Kupperman Thorp said that Burns met with Epstein when he was preparing to transition out of government service.
"The director did not know anything about him, other than that he was introduced as an expert in the financial services sector and offered general advice on transition to the private sector," Thorp said. "They had no relationship."
Epstein's calendar also revealed that he met with Obama White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler "dozens of times" after she left the administration and before joining Goldman Sachs as a top attorney. In August 2014, just weeks after leaving the Obama White House, Epstein reportedly planned a lunch at his townhouse.
A Goldman Sachs spokesperson said that Epstein had asked Ruemmler if she would be interested in representing Bill Gates and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
In 2015, Ruemmler was scheduled to visit Epstein's private Caribbean island, Little Saint James. However, she "never accepted an invitation or an opportunity to fly with Jeffrey Epstein anywhere."
Ruemmler expressed her regret through a spokesperson, saying, "I regret ever knowing Jeffrey Epstein."
Epstein allegedly connected Ruemmler with Ariane de Rothschild, a member of the prominent Rothschild family and currently the chief executive of the Swiss private bank Edmond de Rothschild Group. The report claimed that Ariane had more than a dozen meetings with Epstein.
Ariane de Rothschild reportedly purchased nearly $1 million worth of auction items on Epstein's behalf in 2014 and 2015. "Mrs. de Rothschild was named chairwoman of the bank in January 2015," the Wall Street Journal reported.
"That October, she and Epstein negotiated a $25 million contract for Epstein's Southern Trust Co. to provide 'risk analysis and the application and use of certain algorithms' for the bank, according to a proposal reviewed by the Journal."
Bard College President Leon Botstein allegedly "invited Epstein, who brought a group of young female guests, to the campus," according to the report.
The Wall Street Journal also claimed that leftist activist Noam Chomsky was "scheduled to fly with Epstein to have dinner at Epstein's Manhattan townhouse in 2015." Chomsky told the WSJ, "First response is that it is none of your business. Or anyone's. Second is that I knew him and we met occasionally."
In 2014, Epstein reportedly met with Joshua Cooper Ramo, who was then the co-chief executive of Henry Kissinger's corporate consulting firm.
The report pointed out that "none of their names appear in Epstein's now-public 'black book' of contacts or in the public flight logs of passengers who traveled on his private jet."
In February, it was reported that Epstein had a close relationship with a former top JPMorgan Chase executive, with whom he would email photos of young girls. Court documents revealed that the banking executive and Epstein referred to women Epstein procured for Jes Staley as different Disney princesses.
Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to procuring a person under 18 for prostitution and felony solicitation of prostitution.
Epstein died on August 10, 2019, at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City while awaiting his sex trafficking trial. His death was ruled as an alleged suicide.
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