Guilt by association has always been a vexed issue, but in the era of #metoo and corporate and social responsibility, careers can disappear overnight, lives can be destroyed, and reputations can be irrevocably damaged.

That might be the situation facing a teacher at MIT in the US, whose students are calling for him to be fired due to his ties with convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein.

Seth Lloyd, a professor of mechanical engineering at the university, met with Epstein during the sex offender’s time in jail and received funding from Epstein’s foundation. This is despite the fact that the billionaire financier was jailed in 2008 for having for soliciting an underage prostitute and arrested again this year for the alleged sex trafficking of minors from 2002 and 2005.

Guilt by association has always been a vexed issue, but in the era of #metoo and corporate and social responsibility, careers can disappear overnight, lives can be destroyed, and reputations can be irrevocably damaged.<br><br>That might be the situation facing a teacher at MIT in the US, whose students are calling for him to be fired due to his ties with convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein.<br><br>Seth Lloyd, a professor of mechanical engineering at the university, met with Epstein during the sex offender’s time in jail and received funding from Epstein’s foundation. This is despite the fact that the billionaire financier was jailed in 2008 for having for soliciting an underage prostitute and arrested again this year for the alleged sex trafficking of minors from 2002 and 2005.

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