Some email exchanges included in the Jeffrey Epstein documents, recently released to the public, contain noteworthy details about the contacts between Epstein and the cryptocurrency sector.
Accordingly, the Epstein documents had previously referred to the Tether (USDT), Ripple (XRP), and Stellar (XLM) projects.
Now, details about former SEC Chairman Gary Gensler have emerged in the Epstein documents.
According to recent news, Jeffrey Epstein was planning meetings with former SEC chairman Gary Gensler to discuss cryptocurrencies.
According to this, an email from Epstein dated 2018 mentions a planned meeting with Gary Gensler about cryptocurrencies.
Emails from May 2018 show that Epstein told former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers that he wanted to discuss Gary Gensler’s future and digital currencies.
According to this, in an email Epstein wrote to former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers in May 2018, he stated, “Gary Gensler is coming soon and wants to talk about digital currency.”
However, it has not been confirmed whether the two actually met.
The published documents also show that Epstein donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab and the Digital Currency Initiative (DCI). It is noteworthy that at the time, Gensler was a professor at MIT teaching courses on blockchain and digital currencies.
*This is not investment advice.