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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bill-gates-jeffrey-epstein-house-oversight-committee-b3002008.htmlMicrosoft co-founder told House Oversight Committee he believes disgraced financier was plotting to extort him, newly-released transcript reveals
The Microsoft co-founder told the House Oversight Committee the pedophile had never succeeded in extorting him but that it looks like Mr Epsteins brainstorming was going in that direction.
In a newly-published transcript (PDF) of Gates testimony to the panel on June 10, the tech billionaire admitted to affairs with two Russian women - bridge player Mila Antonova and nuclear physicist Karima Nigmatulina - and with medical entrepreneur Dr Alice Jacobs Nesselrodt.
He denied ever witnessing or participating in any sexual misconduct in Epsteins company but acknowledged that he may have unwittingly found himself in the presence of victims after being introduced to him in 2011 by his former employee Dr Boris Nikolic, a mutual friend.
Gates said he believed Nikolic may have told Epstein about two of the affairs.

I did nothing illicit. I saw nothing illicit"
Whip-poor-will
(627 posts)He knows more about little girls
usonian
(27,148 posts)One's whiteness, wealth, parents, title, clerical collar, whatever, tempt one to take advantage of others in their charge.
Leaders earn the right to serve others.
Quoting Daisaku Ikeda, late President of Soka Gakkai Buddhism:
That sure sounds familiar!
https://www.daisakuikeda.org/sub/quotations/theme/leadership.html
tinrobot
(12,124 posts)Seems like a pattern.
usonian
(27,148 posts)Some prefer blondes, so Putin was the supply. All three are monsters.

yardwork
(69,928 posts)Prairie Gates
(8,655 posts)harumph
(3,530 posts)for people of Gate's class? Color me skeptical. Maybe low value blackmail. Methinks you need something really scandalous. I think there's more to this story than the prosaic explanation - that Bill stumbled into a honeypot. No doubt this is the anodyne narrative that was told to Melinda.
Buckeyeblue
(6,479 posts)Especially in the last 25-30 years. The bigger problem is that he continued to be friends with someone who was known to have sex with minors. Why would someone in Gates position do that?
harumph
(3,530 posts)- that would be enough for Epstein to own him. Surprise Bill! Statutory rape! That is a "charitable" explanation of his long contact and it ain't that charitable. On the less charitable side, it's pretty clear that some of these guys were raping younger children. These supposed geniuses - led around by their perverse desires and self esteem deficits. I think our ruling class is chock-a-block with this type of degenerate.
Kid Berwyn
(25,480 posts)Craig Unger pegs the Russia-Epstein angle.

From Russia(to Jeffrey), with Love
The Epstein saga is even more interesting when you look at the Russian women who helped run his operation. Here's a look at Svetlana Pozhidaeva.
Craig Unger
Jul 21, 2025
EXCERPT...
Raised in a Moscow apartment complex built for staffers of the NKVD, the Stalinist precursor of the KGB, Pozhidaeva was educated at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), the prestigious academy run by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that is a training ground for Russian diplomats and intelligence officials. Reputed to be the most elite university in the country, MGIMO has been dubbed the Harvard of Russia by Henry Kissinger because it has trained so many figures in Russias political, intellectual, and financial elite.
According to the Italian edition of Maxim, Lana gave up a promising tennis career at the age of sixteen to become the youngest freshman at MGIMO, where she graduated with the equivalent of summa cum laude, having mastered, along the way, French, English, Italian, and Spanish, as if she were on course to join the Foreign Ministry.
But then her career took a bizarre turn. Her stellar academic credentials notwithstanding, Pozhidaeva somehow ended up becoming a model who was represented by MC2, a modeling agency owned by Epstein-pimp-to-be Jean-Luc Brunel. Known as le fantôme (the ghost), Brunel was the subject of a 1988 piece that aired on CBSs 60 Minutes in which several young models accused him of drugging their drinks, groping them sexually, and rape. The CBS reporter, Craig Pyes, told Michael Gross. the author of Model: The Ugly Truth of Beautiful Women, that Brunel ranks among the sleaziest people in the fashion industry. Were talking about a conveyor belt, not a casting couch. Hundreds of girls were not only harassed but molested.
SNIP...
What was most striking about Pozhidaeva was that she had a terrific academic career in Russia and then threw it away on something completely unrelated. She attended, as she says, a top college in Russia, like Stanford in the United States, said Shvets. And she was a straight‑ A student. This is important to understand. She sacrificed four years and then two more years for a masters degree. Its an achievement.
But suddenly after this, Shvets noted, She says, Fuck it all. Fuck my previous six years. Fuck everything I was doing. I mean, its amazing it just does not happen in real life.
Of course, we know what Epstein was doing with the ladies. But in this particular case, Shvets told me, Epstein takes her and introduces her to renowned American and international scientists.
CONTINUES...
https://substack.com/inbox/post/168787871
Kompromat is king, like Ka$h.
usonian
(27,148 posts)Kid Berwyn
(25,480 posts)Bill Gates. Elon Musk. Peter Thiel. Shady Sofafluffer .
Boomerproud
(9,415 posts)Hmmm.
MustLoveBeagles
(18,308 posts)Even if he didn't abuse children himself, I think he knows more than he's saying. It's a shame he turned out to be a douchbag.
usonian
(27,148 posts)Starting maybe with him lecturing the Homebrew Computer Club on "stealing software" when it is said that the pulled source code for BASIC out of someone else's dumpster.
But, I won't ramble for hours.
Today.
Check the video of his testimony to congress or DOJ on sabotaging java and other things. Looked like a dead fish.
MustLoveBeagles
(18,308 posts)I'll look into it. Thanks 👍