The latest release of Justice Department files on the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has ensnared yet another prominent academic at a top college with longstanding ties to the disgraced financier.
Richard Axel, a Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist who has shaped young minds for more than half a century at Columbia University, said in a statement Wednesday that his relationship with Epstein had been a “serious error in judgment.” He added that “the harm that he has caused to so many people, makes my association with him all the more painful and inexcusable.”
The New York Times reports that Axel maintained a close relationship with Epstein, beginning in the 1980s. He told New York magazine in 2007 the predator “has the ability to make connections that other minds can’t make,” describing him as “extremely smart and probing.”
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