

Greenberg had reason to believe this could work Trump had elevated Gaetz as something like an heir and so would be personally invested in protecting that investment in his own political future.

(This was some months before Gaetz’s connection to the Greenberg sex trafficking investigation was first reported.) “They know he paid me to pay the girls and that he and I both had sex with the girl who was underage,” Greenberg wrote Stone. Just before Trump left office, Greenberg pressed Trump associate Roger Stone for a preemptive pardon. In 2019, according to the Human Trafficking Institute, 103 people faced sex trafficking charges for soliciting sex-about 10 percent of all federal trafficking defendants.īoth Greenberg and Epstein appear to have explicitly cultivated relationships with powerful people both to enrich themselves and as cover. Since then, the Department of Justice has charged many more men who were alleged to have solicited commercial sex with the crime of sex trafficking. There are unexpected burdens as well as benefits.” It was a “burden”that meets the federal definition of sex trafficking. “Gulliver’s playfulness had unintended consequences,” Epstein told The New York Times a few months before his brief incarceration, likening himself to the narrator of Jonathan Swift’s novel, all in the course of being interviewed on his own private island. Not just technology innovation – system innovation.When Gates was being entertained by Epstein at the financier’s Manhattan townhouse, several years had passed since a sex trafficking investigation resulted in Epstein’s very publicly pleading guilty to charges of soliciting a minor for prostitution. If we are going to change people’s lives, we need another level of innovation. He is also the founder of Breakthrough Energy, which works to address climate change by supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs, big thinkers, and clean technologies.

Through his private office, Gates Ventures, he pursues his work in climate change and clean energy innovation, Alzheimer’s research and other healthcare issues, interdisciplinary education, and technology.

In 2008, Bill transitioned to focus full-time on the foundation’s work. As co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates shapes and approves foundation strategies, advocates for the foundation’s issues, and sets the organization’s overall direction. He works with grantees and partners to further the foundation’s goal of improving equity in the United States and around the world.īill co-founded Microsoft Corporation in 1975 with Paul Allen and led the company to become the worldwide leader in business and personal software and services.
