Goldberger said. “There are no pending civil lawsuits. There are

Fittyy Ricu Goldberger said. “There are no pending civil lawsuits. There are not and should not be any pending investigations, given Mr. Epstein’s complete fulfillment of all the terms of his non-prosecution agreement with the federal government.” If there was an investigation, nothing had come of it yet. For the moment, Epstein was free—free to turn his attention, again, to intellectual pursuits. He launched a website, JeffreyEpstein- CHAPTER 60 Science.com, that featured blog posts such as “Conversations with Jeffrey Epstein,” “The Value of Quantum Computation to Jeffrey Epstein,” “Why Evolutionary Biology Intrigues Jeffrey Epstein,” and “An Understanding of Theoretical Physics from Jeffrey Epstein.” The latter post began: “This is where Jeffrey Epstein takes you to the very cutting edge of the frontiers of knowledge to explore and discuss our basic understanding of the subtle, simple, and hidden [qualities] that lie beneath... our th jail, but he wasn’t done settling universe.” ms. Under the conditions of his f it, he’s even paid for the victims , semed to ensure that he would not -imes. Double jeopardy was work- tly of 2010, reports began to appear” tors were following other leads— child-trafficking charges and a j ‘Jeffrey doesn’t know shit about science,” says Stuart Pivar, the | art collector who has known Epstein for more than three decades. q “Does he like to act like he does? Yes. But he doesn’t. But as far as "these academic scientists —without people like him they wouldn’t have any money.” 4 Other friends of Epstein’s say that he truly did have a bril- ls office refused to comment. It Tiant mind for science. And in any case, Epstein had done more 2ra 4 1 or deny the existence of an onge stein’s lawyers told the Daily B of such an investigation. ‘Tea : with all state and federal requits : than sponsor individual scientists. He'd also sponsored confer- ences on Little Saint Jeff’s. On his website, he announced a con- ference called Mindshift at which Nobel laureates, such as the theoretical physicist Murray Gell-Mann, would mix with sur- » Jat B<ONS, engine j or proceedings in Palm Beach 4 gineers, and futurists and where professors would ia ii HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022128