A former director at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who allegedly played a role in concealing the MIT Media Lab’s financial relationship with recently deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has been placed on leave from his current position at Brown University.
Peter Cohen, a former director of development and strategy at MIT, was named in a Sept. 6 report by The New Yorker that described how the lab continued to accept gifts from Epstein even though he was listed as “disqualified” in MIT’s official donor database. The New Yorker cited dozens of pages of emails and other documents they obtained.
