Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s newly released private calendar, including shock meetings with Professor Noam Chomsky
JEFFREY Epstein met Professor Noam Chomsky years after he was registered as a sex offender, bombshell documents revealed.
The disgraced financier also met with top officials, including the current CIA director Wilhelm Burns, on his schedule.
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As reported by The Wall Street Journal, Chomsky, an outspoken critic of US foreign policy, was scheduled to fly to Epstein’s posh Manhattan townhouse in 2015.
The 94-year-old linguist revealed that the two discussed politics and science during their meeting.
Epstein reportedly scheduled meetings with Chomsky between 2015 and 2016.
Chomsky was asked about his relationship with Epstein and told the WSJ: “The first answer is that it’s none of your business. Or someone’s.
“Secondly, I knew him and we met occasionally.”
Epstein pleaded guilty in June 2008 to a single charge of soliciting girls as young as 14 into prostitution.
He had to register as a sex offender and make payments to the victims.
The WSJ unearthed a treasure trove from 2013-2017 that had not previously been reported.
Epstein reportedly arranged meetings with Burns in 2014 when he was assistant secretary of state.
One luncheon was to be at a Washington DC law firm, while two were to be at Epstein’s home.
CIA spokeswoman Tammy Kupperman Thorp told the WSJ that Burns recalled being introduced to Epstein by a mutual friend.
She added that Burns also recalled meeting Epstein “briefly” in New York.
The meeting between Epstein and Burns came as the diplomat tried to leave the government.
Burns was Deputy Secretary of State from July 2011 to November 2014.
The meeting with Epstein took place years before Burns was nominated for the role of CIA Director.
Kupperman Thorp said: “The director knew nothing about him other than that he was introduced as an expert in the financial services sector and gave general advice on the transition to the private sector.”
She went on to say that Burns and Epstein had “no relationship.”
Chomsky and Burns have not been charged with wrongdoing.
Kathryn Ruemmler, a former White House adviser during the Obama administration between 2011 and 2014, told The WSJ that she “regrets” she ever knew Epstein.
The newspaper reported Epstein called Ruemmler to set up a meeting just weeks after she left the White House.
A spokeswoman for Goldman Sachs, where Ruemmler now works, said she has had more than 30 appointments with Epstein.
They told the WSJ, “It was the same contacts and engagements that she had with other contacts and clients.”
The documents claimed Ruemmler had planned to accompany Epstein on visits to Paris in 2015 and his Caribbean island in 2017.
But the spokeswoman for Goldman Sachs has said she didn’t travel with him.
Ruemmler is also not accused of any wrongdoing.
In August 2019, Epstein was found dead in his New York jail cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
His death came just weeks after he was found unconscious with injuries to his neck.
Epstein had pleaded not guilty to sexually abusing dozens of girls, with some of his alleged victims as young as 14.
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