The Justice Department released some of the files related to sex offender and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein last week after Congress passed a law forcing the Trump administration to do so.
Lexington, MA, was mentioned a few times in the tens of thousands of documents that were released.
A log of Epstein’s phone calls show he called at least one phone number registered in Lexington ten times between October and December of 2005. The phone numbers in the document are redacted.
It’s possible those calls were made to Noam Chomsky, a friend of Epstein’s who lived in Lexington for at least 40 years, including during 2005. A world-renowned writer and public intellectual, Chomsky, now 97, taught linguistics at MIT and is still listed on the university’s website as a professor emeritus.
Friday’s release also uncovered several images of Chomsky with Epstein.
Those calls could have been made to someone else, though. Epstein kept relationships with multiple MIT and Harvard professors. It’s widely publicized that he was close with Larry Summers, an economics professor at Harvard who was the secretary of the treasury under Bill Clinton. Many academics who work at those universities also live and have lived in Lexington.
The vast majority of Epstein’s phone calls were to numbers in New York City, Miami, and Palm Beach.
Lexington was also mentioned in one of the court filings regarding Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s associate who was found guilty of child sex trafficking and other offenses in connection with Epstein in 2021.
The court filing cites Lexington Books in Lexington, MA, as a publisher of Autoerotic Fatalities, which was written in part by Park Dietz, a forensic psychiatrist who testified as an expert in those areas during Maxwell’s trials.
Friday’s release is only a peek into all the documents the DOJ is expected to have. DOJ authorities acknowledged in a letter to Congress obtained by The Associated Press that the complete files were not released and the government expects more disclosures by the end of the year.
(H/T Asa Mele for calling to our attention the mention of Lexington in the documents).