Researcher tied to Epstein quits NY Times board

The director of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology research lab who resigned from the university over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein has also resigned from the boards of The New York Times Co. and of two foundations.

Times publisher A G Sulzberger and the company's president, Mark Thompson, said in a companywide email Saturday that former Media Lab director Joi Ito has resigned from the board "effective immediately."
MIT President L Rafael Reif wrote in a letter to the university community Saturday that the report by The New Yorker about the Media Lab's ties to Epstein contained "deeply disturbing allegations."