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Firtyy Ricwu 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 ce ” q Science.com, that featured blog posts such as “Conversations — ae 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 = it, he’s even paid for the victims 3 vemed to ensure that he would not mes. Double jeopardy was worl ly of 2010, reports began to appear” | tors were following other leads ‘f _ these academic scientists— without people like him they wouldn't child-trafficking charges and have any money.” Other friends of Epstein’s say that he truly did have a bril- | “Jeffrey doesn’t know shit about science,” says Stuart Pivar, the _ art collector who has known Epstein for more than three decades. ' “Does he like to act like he does? Yes. But he doesn’t. But as far as al’s office refused to comment. It liant mind for science. And in any case, Epstein had done more 27 1 or deny the existence of an ongo- stein’s lawyers told the Daily Beast of such an investigation. ‘Je with all state and federal requit Palm Beach, J ? than sponsor individual scientists. He'd also sponsored confer- ences on Little Saint Jeff’s. On his website, he announced a con- fe ence called Mindshift at which Nobel laureates, such as the he Oretical physicist Murray Gell-Mann, would mix with sur- or proceedings in es. engineers, and futurists and where professors would 231 230 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022038