How smug, how gross: "An ordinary sex offender," as opposed to what?

"The president [Leon Botstein] “relied on his view that a person convicted of crimes involving sex with a minor—‘an ordinary sex offender’, in his words—could be presumed to be rehabilitated in the same way that any other convicted person should, in his view, be given that presumption.”

https://www.inquirer.com/news/nation-world/jeffrey-epstein-bard-college-president-leon-botstein-resign-donation-relationship-20260503.html

#Bard
#Botstein
#Epstein

Bard College's president to retire after scrutiny of relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

Documents released by the Justice Department showed that Leon Botstein met and communicated with the sex offender on numerous occasions.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Noam #Chomsky and #BardCollege president had financial dealings with #jeffreyepstein " 🤯

Bard College spokesperson: “Jeffrey Epstein made an unsolicited $75,000 contribution to Bard in 2011 that the college publicly acknowledged in 2019. At the time of his gift to Bard, Epstein purported to be a billionaire philanthropist who had served a prison sentence for a deeply troubling crime,” the spokesperson said, referring to Epstein’s sex offenses".

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/17/jeffrey-epstein-noam-chomsky-bard-college-president

#MIT #Botstein

Noam Chomsky and Bard College president had financial dealings with Jeffrey Epstein

The MIT linguist says the late sex offender helped on a ‘technical matter’ related to his and his late wife’s finances

The Guardian