{"content":"Bill Gates Apologizes to Foundation Staff Over Epstein Ties\n\nEmily Glazer, reporting for The Wall Street Journal:\n\n> The billionaire said he met with Epstein starting in 2011, years after Epstein had pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting a minor for prostitution. Gates said he was aware of some “18-month thing” that had limited Epstein’s travel but said he didn’t properly check his background. Gates said he continued meeting with Epstein even after his then-wife Melinda French Gates expressed concerns in 2013.\n> \n> “Knowing what I know now makes it, you know, a hundred times worse in terms of not only his crimes in the past, but now it’s clear there was ongoing bad behavior,” Gates told staff. Speaking of his ex-wife, he added: “To give her credit, she was always kind of skeptical about the Epstein thing.”\n\n“Kind of” is doing a lot of work there.\n\n ★","contentType":"text/plain;utf-8","attachments":[],"quotePin":""}