“Chomsky, a political activist and professor, told the Journal that they met occasionally to discuss political and academic topics,” the newspaper reported. “…Chomsky confirmed that he received a March 2018 transfer of roughly $270,000 from an Epstein-linked account. He said it was ‘restricted to rearrangement of my own funds, and did not involve one penny from Epstein.’”
The scholar, known as a virulent critic of America’s capitalist, free-market enterprise system, had asked Epstein for help with a “technical matter” involving the disbursement of common funds related to his first marriage, the Journal reported.
Chomsky’s response to the Journal when a reporter first asked about the collaboration and friendship was “it is none of your business. Or anyone’s. Second is that I knew him and we met occasionally.”
Chomsky, a longtime professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has made a name for himself by telling others how to live. Most recently, in 2021, he told a Stanford University audience that failure to wear a mask in public was analogous to going on a shooting rampage. For decades, the scholar has been a leading critic of American policies while also praising murderous communist and socialist regimes.
