JAKARTA - Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender, has a vast network in Silicon Valley and has invested in a number of leading technology start-ups.
This report was released by The New York Times (NYT), citing US Department of Justice (DOJ) documents.
"Okay. I have free time between noon and 3 p.m. today. It's not too important, but it would be nice to meet him [Epstein] if possible. Is this [meeting] important for him?" wrote a founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, Fred Ehrsam, in a surelpada December 2014.
In the same year, Epstein invested 3 million US dollars (about Rp48.6 billion) in Coinbase, which was still a startup company at the time.
As reported by ANTARA from Sputnik, Friday, February 6, the NYT report also said that technology billionaire Peter Thiel gave investment advice to Epstein, including the possibility of funding the music service Spotify and Thiel's software company, Palantir.
It was not clear whether Epstein eventually invested in Palantir, but he was listed as investing $40 million in Thiel's other company, Valar Ventures, the report said.
It is said that Epstein funded a number of other technology and crypto projects, including the Jawbone technology company with an investment value of nearly 12 million US dollars.
On January 30, US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the completion of the publication of Epstein's case documents. With the latest disclosure, the total number of files released now exceeds 3.5 million documents.
A number of influential figures are mentioned in the document, including US President Donald Trump and former US President Bill Clinton.
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