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Director of MIT's Media Lab Steps Down Over Epstein Ties

Associated Press

   CAMBRIDGE, MASS. - The director of a prestigious research lab at the
   Massachusetts Institute of Technology resigned Saturday, and the
   school's president ordered an independent investigation amid an uproar
   over the lab's ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

   Joi Ito, director of MIT's Media Lab, resigned from both the lab and
   from his position as a professor at the Cambridge school, university
   President L. Rafael Reif said. The resignation was first reported by
   The New York Times.

   Ito's resignation comes after The New Yorker reported late Friday that
   Media Lab had a more extensive fundraising relationship with Epstein
   than it previously acknowledged and tried to conceal the extent of the
   relationship.

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