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| Photo from the 2014 gala: Epstein on the left, ASU's Lawrence Krauss in the center, and psychologist Steven Pinker on the right. Dark Dollars: Epstein and The Slippery Slope of Non-Profits: Epstein's contacts in Phoenix and Tucson By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, March 1, 2026 Jeffrey Epstein's funding for Arizona's largest universities, funneled through non-profits, reveals the slippery slope of non-profits, academia and the media. The non-profit money flow reveals how Epstein, as a sex offender, hid his donations to colleges. These were donations to buy access and power, while promoting genetics, cyber currency, and A.I., artificial intelligence. Before he was sent to prison, Epstein supported projects at Arizona State University in the Phoenix Valley, and was present at an ASU event. Meanwhile, in Tucson, Noam Chomsky, relied on Epstein for advice on financial matters, and met with Epstein. In Epstein's world, the targets were from every arena, from Hollywood producers, to the head of the United Nations and academia. In Epstein's world, sex trafficking was both an industry and insurance for blackmail. Girls and women were disposables in a world of horror. |
Joi Ito, MIT's Media Lab director, was on the Navajo Nation, and involved with funding for ASU through non-profits. Joi was funded by Epstein and resigned after the truth was released. Joi now works in China.
Joi Ito, reported to Epstein when he was on the Navajo Nation. Joi Ito, Japanese American, and MIT's Media Lab director, relied on Epstein for his funding. A year after Joi was on the Navajo Nation, MIT carried out health screening of Navajo preschoolers in Tuba City, Shonto and Kayenta.
The college students, some studying genetics and DNA, took blood samples of Dine' preschoolers. At the time, Joi was also promoted Epstein's genetics and Crypto currency.
Joi also served as a trustee on a non-profit, the Knight Foundation, that provided large grants to Arizona State University for media and television.
When Epstein was sent to prison in 2019, Joi served as a trustee on the board of the John S and James L Knight Foundation.
The non-profit gave ASU two grants totaling $775,000 for "cutting edge" media projects in television and broadcasting, as shown on the Knight Foundation's tax return and revealed in Censored News investigation.
The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at ASU receives direct funding from the university. On July 24, 2019, Indian Country Today's headquarters officially moved to the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at ASU.
The journalism school on campus also partners with the Indigenous Journalists Association.
(Below: Joi Ito, funded by Epstein, served on the board of the Knight Foundation when it gave grant funding to ASU, the same year when Epstein was arrested and immediately sent to prison for sex trafficking in Manhattan. Image: Knight Foundation 2019 tax return.)
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| https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/650464177/202033219349104418/full |
At ASU, the project Epstein promoted, the Origin Project, was darkened when the project's head was removed for "unwanted sexual contact" while in Australia.
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| (Above) Document from Dept. of Justice release of Epstein files. |
Epstein's Enhanced Education foundation, one of his nonprofits, provided at least $250,000 to the Origins Project over roughly seven years (roughly 2010–2017), with the final documented payment in April 2017.
An additional $2 million came in 2014–2015 from Epstein's associate Leon Black, a billionaire investor who had ties to Epstein's foundations, and Black's wife. After the Epstein exposures, some of the funds were returned.
- Chomsky stated he knew Epstein and met with him occasionally. His wife, Valeria Wasserman Chomsky, later described it as a "professional" relationship in which they were "naive" and "ensnared" by a "Trojan horse".
- Documents showed that in 2018–2019, as legal pressure mounted on Epstein, he and Chomsky corresponded frequently. Chomsky appeared to advise Epstein on how to handle "putrid" media coverage regarding Epstein's sex crimes. One email from an account linked to Chomsky calling the press "vultures" and suggesting the best approach was to "ignore it."
- Records indicate they met in person in New York and at Epstein's New Mexico ranch. In 2016, Chomsky wrote to Epstein, "Valeria's always keen on New York. I'm really fantasizing about the Caribbean island".
The e-mails released by the U.S. Department of Justice reveal Epstein inviting Chomsky and his wife to meet with Epstein and Woody Allen. There also an email from Joi Ito saying that he will meet the next day with Chomsky and Ehud, the former prime minister of Israel.
This is what Epstein did, he invited his targets over for dinner, and brought them together. If they could be compromised, they were secretly video taped.
Epstein's discussions with Chomsky appear to have focused on resolving personal finances, and intellectual topics.
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| "Noam. I'd love your advice on how I handle my putrid press," Epstein wrote, adding that media coverage was "spiralling out of control". Photo House Oversight Committee Democrats. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9ykjlyv50o |
Yes. First step would be to meet Tenzin. His student who runs the Dalai Lama center and is now a Director's Fellow at the Lab and going to start the "ethics initiative" at the Media Lab. We're working on some cool things like a meeting about cognitive machines and man. I think you'll probably like him. He can get us the Dalai Lama.
» BTW, having lunch with Seth Lloyd this week.
- Joi >> >>> On May 10, 2015, at 9:42 AM, jeffrey E. jeevacation@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>> fun dinner would be dali lama. woody allen chomsky? lets do it
Epstein said he chose the Zorro Ranch in New Mexico because it meant access to the nuclear scientists who lived in Santa Fe, and worked at the Los Alamos Labs, which was central to the production of the first atomic bomb and Manhattan Project.
During his years at Zorro Ranch, 30 miles southeast of Santa Fe, Epstein funded scientists at the Santa Fe Institute, where he made friends with New Mexico's scientists and intellectuals.
Jenna Marshall, a spokesperson for the Santa Fe Institute, said in the BuzzFeed News story that a $25,000 donation in 2010 from Epstein “prompted our leadership to decide not to accept any additional funds from Mr Epstein or related sources”. They were, she said, considering donating an equal amount to a charity working with victims of sex trafficking.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/18/private-jets-parties-and-eugenics-jeffrey-epsteins-bizarre-world-of-scientists
In the world of non-profits, and defense department contracts -- ASU keeps its war funding quiet.
ASU shut down pro-Palestine rallies in recent years, and arrested students who supported Palestine. At the same time, ASU's revenues from war related contracts, and the U.S. Defense Department increased.
ASU is ranked among the top U.S. universities for Department of Defense funded research expenditures. In recent years, the research expenditures at ASU reached over $46 million in 2023 and more than $52 million in 2024.
The funds support research on cybersecurity threats, artificial intelligence for military missions, microelectronics for U.S. security, and ethical considerations in autonomous military technologies.
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