[CodingJeebus]

If I'm tasking someone to move over a quarter million dollars in funds for me, you bet I'm gonna Google the living crap out of them first. I just can't believe someone as intelligent as Chomsky would be so blindly trusting. $270k is still a lot of money for a guy like Chomsky.

[cmrdporcupine]

My perspective from watching people a generation older than me become elderly (parents, friend's parents, etc.) is that judgement is one of the more unfortunate and first things to really decline.

I've watched people taken in by online and phone scammers who would have been way more distrustful in their younger years.

I don't want to make excuses for Chomsky here on that basis though. Especially because I think his partner is doing him a disservice with this non-apology and also probably her role in these decisions. Being a partner or child etc to an elderly person involves caretaking this aspect and helping them make decisions.

In fact it's the whole of any spouse or loved one to help check the decisions of those they love.

[datsci_est_2015]

He knew. He felt he was immune to consequences. They all feel immune to consequences.

[KingOfCoders]

$20.000 + $270.000 of which were Chomsky's own, somehow, as

Epstein "recovering the funds for Noam" ... whatever recovering means, one suspects it's just Epstein's money but everyone was happy that it was "recovered" Chomsky's money.