{"id":75012,"date":"2026-06-17T18:55:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T23:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/harvard-and-bard-face-fresh-questions-from-lawmakers-over-ties-to-epstein\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T18:55:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T23:55:36","slug":"harvard-and-bard-face-fresh-questions-from-lawmakers-over-ties-to-epstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/harvard-and-bard-face-fresh-questions-from-lawmakers-over-ties-to-epstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard and Bard face fresh questions from lawmakers over ties to Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Jamie Raskin seeks \u2018comprehensive accounting\u2019 and requests interview with outgoing Bard president<\/p>\n<p>Harvard University and Bard College<em><strong> <\/strong><\/em>are facing new questions about the institutions\u2019 relationship with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/jeffrey-epstein\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> amid allegations that the convicted child sex trafficker leveraged his ties to the universities and their faculty to traffick women, while also burnishing his reputation to avoid detection.<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House judiciary committee, said in a statement that Harvard and Bard had both previously attempted to investigate the role their universities and leadership played in facilitating Epstein\u2019s abuse, but that those attempts either failed or fell short of a full accounting of what occurred.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/17\/harvard-bard-college-jeffrey-epstein\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Jamie Raskin seeks \u2018comprehensive accounting\u2019 and requests interview with outgoing Bard president Harvard University and Bard College are facing new questions about the institutions\u2019 relationship with Jeffrey Epstein amid allegations that the convicted child sex trafficker leveraged his ties to the universities and their faculty to traffick women, while also burnishing his reputation to &#8230; <a title=\"Harvard and Bard face fresh questions from lawmakers over ties to Epstein\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/harvard-and-bard-face-fresh-questions-from-lawmakers-over-ties-to-epstein\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Harvard and Bard face fresh questions from lawmakers over ties to 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75012","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\/75012","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=75012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}