This story first appeared in the Concord Bridge.

Jeffrey Epstein was a frequent flyer at Hanscom Field, newly released documents show. 

A Concord Bridge review of a Justice Department database uncovered at least 20 trips through the airfield from January 2013 to March 2018. Epstein often flew on a private plane from Teterboro Airport just outside New York City and had a chauffeur pick him up on the tarmac. 

Emails and day schedules showed he often headed into Cambridge for meetings with prominent academics. His aides handled the logistics. 

Epstein admitted to soliciting prostitution from someone under the age of 18 in 2008 and was sentenced to 18 months in jail. 

Authorities arrested him again in 2019 after new allegations that he and his partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, abused underage girls. He was soon found dead in his jail cell. Maxwell began serving a 20-year prison sentence following her 2021 conviction on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges. 

One of Epstein’s accusers, Virginia Giuffre, alleged that others in Epstein’s orbit also participated in the abuse. 

Epstein amassed considerable wealth. He had well-documented connections with Boston-area professors but sometimes chose Hanscom over Logan International Airport for short flights. 

This option was “significantly less expensive,” according to one 2013 email from an employee at Linear Air, a private plane company. 

On several occasions, itineraries showed Epstein was due to land at Hanscom and fly back to Teterboro on the same day. Schedules mentioned meetings with MIT and Harvard University professors, including Noam Chomsky and former Harvard President Larry Summers. 

Summers told multiple news outlets last year that he was “deeply ashamed” of his Epstein ties. Chomsky hasn’t publicly addressed his communications since details started emerging in recent months.

In one case, Epstein had a car scheduled to pick him up from Hanscom on the morning of January 21, 2017, according to a reservation document. 

“Crazy traffic for protest,” he wrote in a text message that afternoon. 

Thousands flooded into Boston that day for the massive Women’s March after President Donald Trump’s first inauguration. Epstein was set to visit Harvard, according to emails.

“Avoid Route 2,” an associate texted Epstein. “Concord Avenue seems fine.” 

The Department of Justice released new files last week and claims it has complied with a November law requiring the government to release most of its documents related to Epstein and Maxwell.

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