Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
In today's episode, we're going to talk about a professor
from Morgan State University who sent Jeffrey Epstein an absolutely
absurd email offering to help him refurbish his image, all
for the cool price of five million dollars. So who
is this professor, Well, it's a man named Jonathan Farley,
and doing a quick search of mister Farley, you come
up with some pretty funny results. One of those results
being the fact that this dude got built out of
fifty g's by a woman that he met on a
Russian online dating site. So, this goofball meets this woman
online from some Russian dating site and then, after courting
her for three years, hops on a plane to go
to Turkey to meet her family. Well, within a couple
of weeks of them getting married, her behavior towards him
completely changed and there was the usual arguments and fights
and everything that comes with not knowing somebody and marrying them.
Then he says that she would go to places like
Walmart or bed Bath and beyond and spend four hundred
dollars a trip nine hundred dollars a trip, and according
to him, she also went bananas spending money at Ikea. Well.
After her various spending escapades, he realized that he was
in a bad situation, so the two of them agreed
to separate, but not after she took this dude for
over fifty g's. So, now that we have a little
bit of background on this goofball, let's take a dive
into the article from Vice News and let's see what
his connection to Jeffrey Epstein is. Headlined, a math professor
suggested a jail Jeffrey Epstein give them money to repair
his image in the black community. This article was authored
by Anna Merlin, an associate professor of mathematics at Morgan
State University, a public, historically black college, sent Jeffrey Epstein
a bizarre and self serving business proposal while he was
in prison on sex trafficking charges, in which he argued
the disgraced financier and sexual predator should give him millions
of dollars to help rehabilitate his image in black communities.
Breaking news, Black communities don't like diddlers either. What you
think Jeffrey Epstein's going to be welcomed at the next
Rolling Sixties block party? Doctor Jonathan Farley, a highly credentialed
mathematician with degrees from Harvard and Oxford, wrote a colorful
email in which he proposed that Epstein, with whom he'd
previously had a meeting over Skype, donate money for an
endowed chair at Morgan State for women in mathematics, and
a separate amount to Farley personally to allow him to
become a lecturer at Oxford. I'm sure doctor Stephen Delay
will weigh in about this situation and mister Farley and
Oxford because the rot in academia, it runs deep, and
if you think it started or stopped with Jeffrey Epstein,
you're not paying attention. There is no evidence that either
Morgan State or Oxford signed on to this scheme. Morgan
State did not respond to a request for comment. Epstein's donations,
would Farley wrote, somehow served to shore up the disgraced
sex offenders public persona and possibly even be legally helpful.
Were accepting your five million dollars will show the world
that you are not a pariah, he wrote, and may
help you avoid a conviction like Bill Cosby. Imagine this
guy out here talking about send me five million and
I'll help refurbish your image so that people don't think
you're a pariah. Meanwhile, this dude went to jail already
for molesting a child, and I don't want to hear
anything about this professor had no idea who he was
talking to. They all knew that whole entire line and
that narrative of we had no idea. You can miss
me with that bullshit. Bring that to somebody else who cares,
because I don't want to hear it. I'm tired of
the excuses. I'm tired of the bs, and I'm tired
of all of these people who were benefiting from Epstein
getting a pass here and not being called out on
the carpet. If you were being funded by this dude,
if you were getting money from him in any capacity,
you were part of the hustle. It would be no
different than if you were getting money from a friend
who was in the Gambino crime family or who was
in the Sinaloa cartel. Those are ill gotten gains, and
now that you receive that money, you're part of the conspiracy.
The email from Farley to Epstein was included in thousands
of pages of documents uncovered by Motherboard through a public
records request we filed with a Bureau of Prisons. Also
contained in the release is evidence first reported by the
Associated Press, that shows Epstein attempted to correspond with disgraced
AA gymnastics doctor and convicted serial child molester Larry Nasser.
Well does that shock you? It shouldn't. Birds of a
feather and all right, fellow travelers, It's like Hannibal Lecter
trying to contact Buffalo Bill. Sick degenerates are drawn to
other sick degenerates. The letter Epstein sent to Nasser was
returned to prison officials and appears to have arrived about
a month after his death. The letter itself was not
included in the documents we received. The correspondence Farley sent
to Epstein, however, is more detailed. Although portions of the
email are redacted, Farley is easily identifiable because he included
a caption photo of himself in the message to Epstein,
and because he readily admitted to sending the email when
reached for comment by Motherboard. I suspect you, in fact
have nothing, and you are hoping to get information from me,
Farley wrote, but I will disappoint you. You may I
think this is a gotcha email. But I have always
been open about seeking to raise money from Jeffrey Epstein,
Nobel laureate, James Watson, doctor Bill Cosby, defense contractors, and
the Koch brothers. So you try to justify the fact
that you're willing to take donations from somebody like Epstein
by bringing up a bunch of other undesirables. All right,
I guess. In his email to Epstein, dated July thirtieth,
twenty nineteen, Farley first reminded Epstein that the two men
had met before you called me circa August of twenty seventeen,
Farley wrote in large red font, adding that he and
Epstein had a skype call in December of that year,
along with the PhD student of Farley's now a mathematics professor.
She did not respond to her request for comment. Farley
went on to outline the ways that Epstein could donate
money to him or institutions that he's affiliated with, writing
again in large bold red font, I can help you,
he added, I am now throwing you a lifesaver. You
can donate to my university, the historically black college, Morgan
State University, he added in blue font. For some reason,
our accepting of your five million dollars will show the
world you are not a pariah and may help you
avoid a conviction like Bill Cosby. Farley puts Cosby's name
in red. The donation can be for the Jeffrey Epstein
Chair for the Promotion of Women in Mathematics. Farley added,
which will show the world your support for women. Yeah,
because that shows his support not the fact that he
brutally raped and abused literally thousands of them, but because
he makes a five million dollar donation to you. Mister,
I got hoodwinked by a Ukrainian bride. His whole entire
reputation is going to be refurbished. Yeah. And that Ukrainian bride,
she really loved you. Alternatively, Farley suggested Epstein could give
him a personal award, similar to something called the Breakthrough Awards.
Farley said other professors had received and gotten three million
dollars for so basically what he's saying is, I'll be
your proxy. Give me this money, and I'll donate it
for you to these universities, and then they'll give me
a lecture spot. You can give me a similar award,
Farley wrote, adding I am willing to publicly stand with you,
and your gift could generate support in the black community.
Public support is something you sorely need right now. So
does this guy really believe that if he stood by
Epstein after Epstein gave him a five million dollar grant
or whatever, that the black community is going to come
out and support Epstein. Is he really that daft to
think that that's going to occur. Farley then proposed a
third option that Epstein donate money to his alma mater
college at Oxford University, which he wrote needs one and
a half million pounds for a lectureship in pure mathematics.
Farley added that he'd spoken with the head of the
college and the head of Development, the latter of whom
said that accepting money from you would be a tough
one for a UK institution, but Farley wrote, if you
funded me as an individual and pointed out to them
that I could then take up the lectureship for free,
they might be open to that. The benefit to you
is that I would then be at Oxford University as
a lecturer, and you'd have an advocate at one of
the world's most prestigious universities publicly defending you. I could
probably generate positive media coverage on your behalf as an
Oxford don So basically, this dude's offering to be a
mercenary for hire and come out and refurbish Jeffrey Epstein's
image for a set upon price. You want to talk
about having no shame whatsoever and being a foulass son
of a bitch. Yeah, this dude is it. And how
come every time we turn around and we're talking about academia,
it's it's always one of these scuzzballs from a place
like Harvard or Oxford or insert new balance wearing Ivy
League school here. But every single time we turn around
and we're talking about higher education and some dirtbag within
the hollowed halls, it's usually at one of those institutions.
After publication, Lincoln College, one of the constituent colleges of
Oxford University, which operates independently of the university, told Motherboard
in no uncertain terms that the scheme was Farley's own
and that they never approached Epstein for a donation. Their
statement reads in full, Lincoln College never approached Jeffrey Epstein
for a donation. The college would never have considered approaching
him or taking funding from him in any way. In
no circumstances would an academic role or any other role
at the college be reserved for an individual. The assertion
made by doctor Farley is entirely his own. So is
he going to face any sort of penalties at the
university for his behavior? I doubt it. He's probably tenured.
In emails the motherboard, Farley did not dispute the accuracy
of the letter. It was a letter like that that
got Jeffrey Epstein to call me and got Nobel Laureate
James Watson and secret millionaire Molly Shaddock to meet with me.
Farley added, you want funding from someone for yourself or
an organization, you explain how donating could benefit him or her. Okay,
that's fine and well, but what you were offering is gross.
There's no other way to state that. I'm going to
try and help you rebuild your reputation by using my
position as a lecturer. How can you not see what's
wrong with that stupid statement. Farley, who noted that neither
Morgan State or Oxford University sought or received funding from Epstein, wrote,
I'll continue to seek funding from defense contractors. The surviving
Koch brother doctor Bill Cosby, etc. Without expecting that they
will do it out of the goodness of their hearts.
But I will explain concrete benefits to them. So in
other words, what he's saying is he doesn't care who
the person is. As long as that person can offer
up a few bucks, He's willing to play ball and
try and help them in any manner that he can.
Farley is not alone in seeking money from Epstein, although
his timing while the serial rapist was incarcerated and roughly
ten days before he died by suicide, was of course suboptimal.
In September of twenty nineteen, joy Eto, then the director
of MIT's Media Lab, resigned in disgrace after a New
York Times report about efforts he and other MIT Lab
officials took to conceal their financial ties with Epstein. And
here is the email in full. I can help you.
I am now throwing you a lifesaver. You can donate
to my university, the historically black college, Morgan State University.
Our accepting of your five million dollars will show the
world that you were not a pariah. N may help
you avoid a conviction like Bill Cosby. The donation can
be for the Jeffrey Epstein Chair of the Promotion of
Women in Mathematics, which will show the world your support
for women. Yeah, but your behavior in the past. We'll
forget about all of that because you're gonna throw five
million dollars to this college. Alternatively, redacted gave three million
breakthrough dollar awards to two math professors. You can give
me a similar award. Redacted of Oxford, former President of
the Royal Society, wrote to me in two thousand and seven,
I thought your analysis of the B epidemic was nice
en could well be useful. In two thousand and eight,
I solved the problem for Pollia Prize winner redacted, which
he posed in nineteen eighty one. He implied it was
a challenging question in nineteen seventy six about matchings in
an infinite geometric lattices. I am willing to publicly stand
with you, and your gift could generate support for you
in the black community. Public support is something you sorely
need right now. And imagine this guy is the self
appointed spokesperson for the black community at large. So this
guy speaks for the black community, I guess, And if
you donate money to him, he can get the whole
community on board with whatever he wants. Here's an idea.
Take a seat, sit down and relax, Bozo the clown.
If you want to donate to a more prestigious university,
the danger is that they will reject your gift. But
Lincoln College, part of my alma mater at Oxford University,
needs one and a half million pounds for lectureship in
pure mathematics. They've raised less than ten thousand pounds. I
spoke with the head of the college and the head
of Development. The latter said that accepting money from you
would be a tough one for a UK institution, but
if you funded me as an individual and pointed out
to them that I could then take up a lectureship
for free, they might be open to that. The benefit
to you is that I would be an Oxford University
lecturer and you'd have an advocate at one of the
world's most prestigious universities publicly defending you. I could probably
generate positive media coverage on your behalf as an Oxford
don So let me use my position to try and
help the reputation of one of the most notorious sex
traffickers and child abusers going sounds like a great idea.
Oh and by the way, did I mention that this
letter was sent when Epstein was sitting in jail for
the second time, charged again for Hainu's crimes. And remember
how he started the show. I was telling you that
in twenty nineteen he was also built out of fifty
g's by some mail order bride. Is it just a
coincidence that he was asking for Epstein to personally fund
him right around that same time. Well, I'll leave that
up to you to decide. All right, folks, that's gonna
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