When Global Scandals Reach Addis Ababa: Ethiopia and the Epstein Files
Dr. Jarecki describes Berhanu Nega as “the Epstein scholar for 2008”, and adds that he had been elected mayor of Addis Ababa before being jailed two years prior. Epstein’s reply is immediate, and it is telling though not in the way many have assumed. He is dismissive of Berhanu Nega’s intellectual standing: “He is hardly a scholar if any note no new theories, no new economic ideas, in fact not one of the top 50,000 economists in the world.” But then the tone shifts. The email takes a sharper, more provocative turn: “However, if you want to fund rebellion without all the easily seen through grandiose facade of scholar rescue, I’m in.”