{"id":71396,"date":"2026-04-10T16:45:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/bard-college-president-tells-staff-he-will-soon-be-cleared-in-inquiry-over-epstein-ties\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T16:45:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:45:37","slug":"bard-college-president-tells-staff-he-will-soon-be-cleared-in-inquiry-over-epstein-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/bard-college-president-tells-staff-he-will-soon-be-cleared-in-inquiry-over-epstein-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Bard College president tells staff he will soon be cleared in inquiry over Epstein ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WilmerHale, the law firm examining Leon Botstein\u2019s communications with Jeffrey Epstein, said review is \u2018ongoing\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Bard College\u2019s president, Leon Botstein, told his staff at a meeting this week that there was no way he could have known that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/jeffrey-epstein\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> \u2013 who was a convicted sex offender during their interactions over the years \u2013 was actually \u201creprehensible\u201d and predicted he would soon be cleared of any hint of impropriety about their relationship, according to sources who witnessed the remarks.<\/p>\n<p>The liberal arts college\u2019s board of trustees hired in February the white-shoe law firm WilmerHale to independently investigate communications between Epstein and Botstein.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/10\/bard-college-president-leon-botstein-jeffrey-epstein-ties\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WilmerHale, the law firm examining Leon Botstein\u2019s communications with Jeffrey Epstein, said review is \u2018ongoing\u2019 Bard College\u2019s president, Leon Botstein, told his staff at a meeting this week that there was no way he could have known that Jeffrey Epstein \u2013 who was a convicted sex offender during their interactions over the years \u2013 was &#8230; <a title=\"Bard College president tells staff he will soon be cleared in inquiry over Epstein ties\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/bard-college-president-tells-staff-he-will-soon-be-cleared-in-inquiry-over-epstein-ties\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bard College president tells staff he will soon be cleared in inquiry over Epstein ties\">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-71396","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\/71396","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=71396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}