Did Gary Gensler meet with Epstein? Do you think he'd be interested in Gary Gensler?" Joi Ito asks of Jeffery Epstein's assistant.
Recently surfaced emails from 2018 show then MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito offering a "menu" of academics, including Gary Gensler to Jeffrey Epstein.
📧 The Emails:
May 3, 2018: Joi Ito writes, "maybe Gary Gensler who just joined me/Digital Currency Initiative depending on whether we can get the time to work."
Lesley Groff (Epstein's assistant) responds: "So fantastic! Jeffrey can see you and the others starting at 11:30/12:00! He is going earlier! Sound good?"
This strongly indicates a meeting was being arranged involving Ito, other scientists, and potentially Gensler, with Epstein.
Did Gary Gensler meet Epstein? While the emails show the attempt to arrange a meeting, and the MIT investigations confirmed many faculty interacted with Epstein, Gensler himself has stated he was unaware of Epstein's full criminal history at the time and any interactions were professional within his MIT role. The emails confirm he was certainly considered for a meeting.
Is this where he decided all altcoins are securities?
This is a speculative leap not supported by the emails. The discussions were likely broad-ranging, covering emerging tech like blockchain, which was Gensler's focus at MIT's Digital Currency Initiative. His current views as SEC Chair on crypto regulation are based on complex legal frameworks, not a single meeting or interaction in 2018.
The emails underscore how Epstein used connections to elite academic institutions like MIT to rehabilitate his image.
Most cryptocurrencies are commodities.”
Before becoming SEC Chair, Gary Gensler suggested that for the vast majority of cryptocurrencies, the securities question was largely irrelevant.
So what changed? What led to the SEC’s aggressive shift toward Ripple first, and later much of the broader altcoin market?
Shouldn’t these questions be openly examined?
Especially given renewed scrutiny around Jeffrey Epstein’s connections to institutions like MIT, and claims circulating in some released documents suggesting certain parties viewed altcoins as a potential threat to Bitcoin’s dominance 🧐
