Harvard is reportedly investigating at least two students for exposing former university president Larry Summers’ connection to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
University officials secretly opened a disciplinary investigation into the students after they posted videos of Summers discussing his relationship with Epstein in a Harvard lecture hall, The New York Times reported. The students may end up expelled from the school over accusations that they broke rules, such as attending a class they were not enrolled in and recording without consent.
At least one faculty member issued a complaint to school officials over the publicized videos, sources familiar with the investigation told the NYT. The students were originally accused of bullying, but the investigation has since been refocused.
“This is how classes start at Harvard: Professors apologizing for their ties to Jeffrey Epstein,” one video, which was originally posted to TikTok, was captioned.
Summers stepped down from his teaching role on Nov. 19, the day after the students’ videos gained traction on social media.
If allowed to remain at Harvard, the implicated students are set to graduate in 2026.
Harvard did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
“The College prohibits unauthorized recording of classroom proceedings to protect classrooms as spaces for intellectual exploration and risk-taking, to respect student privacy, and to prevent chilling effects that undermine participation and inquiry,” Harvard told the NYT.
Emails released by Congress show Summers remained in close contact with Epstein even after his 2008 guilty plea for solicitation and up until his 2019 arrest.
Epstein reportedly used Harvard and other prominent universities to whitewash his sexual crimes by ensuring webpages detailing his university donations flooded out links to his 2008 conviction in Google searches of his name. The apparent philanthropist helped fund a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) lab that toyed with the idea of using “child-size sex robots” to treat pedophiles and downplayed the severity of child sex crimes
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