{"id":66800,"date":"2026-02-19T19:58:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/bard-hires-top-law-firm-to-investigate-links-between-college-president-and-epstein\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T19:58:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:58:49","slug":"bard-hires-top-law-firm-to-investigate-links-between-college-president-and-epstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/bard-hires-top-law-firm-to-investigate-links-between-college-president-and-epstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Bard hires top law firm to investigate links between college president and Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WilmerHale to conduct review following new revelations about Leon Botstein\u2019s dealings with convicted sex offender<\/p>\n<p>Bard College\u2019s board of trustees has retained the outside law firm of WilmerHale to conduct an independent investigation into communications between Jeffrey Epstein and the college\u2019s longtime president Leon Botstein.<\/p>\n<p>WilmerHale\u2019s will conduct an \u201cindependent review\u201d of the \u201cfull scope of these communications\u201d, financial contributions connected to Epstein, and any related matters, the board said in an announcement on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/19\/bard-college-wilmerhale-leon-botstein\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WilmerHale to conduct review following new revelations about Leon Botstein\u2019s dealings with convicted sex offender Bard College\u2019s board of trustees has retained the outside law firm of WilmerHale to conduct an independent investigation into communications between Jeffrey Epstein and the college\u2019s longtime president Leon Botstein. WilmerHale\u2019s will conduct an \u201cindependent review\u201d of the \u201cfull scope &#8230; <a title=\"Bard hires top law firm to investigate links between college president and Epstein\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/bard-hires-top-law-firm-to-investigate-links-between-college-president-and-epstein\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bard hires top law firm to investigate links between college president and Epstein\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}