{"id":12858422,"date":"2026-02-25T00:43:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/?p=12858422"},"modified":"2026-02-25T00:57:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:57:45","slug":"how-jeffrey-epstein-ingratiated-himself-with-top-microsoft-executives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/2026\/02\/25\/how-jeffrey-epstein-ingratiated-himself-with-top-microsoft-executives\/","title":{"rendered":"How Jeffrey Epstein Ingratiated Himself With Top Microsoft Executives"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"css-1qv3lay euiyums1\">\n<div>\n<h2 id=\"link-358ceb3b\" data-testid=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/24\/technology\/jeffrey-epstein-microsoft-executives.html?unlocked_article_code=1.O1A.hceB.G46uM_0r29qw&amp;smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How Jeffrey Epstein Ingratiated Himself With Top Microsoft Executives<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"article-summary\" class=\"css-79rysd e1wiw3jv0\"><em>For more than two decades, the convicted sex offender developed a network at the tech giant, making him privy to succession discussions and other business.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-p6m5rf\">\n<div class=\"byline-container css-fowuij epjyd6m2\">\n<div class=\"css-233int epjyd6m1\">\n<p class=\"css-4anu6l e1jsehar1\"><span class=\"byline-prefix\">By\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"css-ojhyzr e1jsehar0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/erin-griffith\">Erin Griffith<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"last-byline css-ojhyzr e1jsehar0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/karen-weise\">Karen Weise, NY Times\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"css-yywogo\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/topic\/company\/microsoft-corporation\">Microsoft<\/a><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">\u00a0was in turmoil in 2011. The company had whiffed on smartphones and internet search. Steve Ballmer, the chief executive, was under pressure, and there was talk of replacing him.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"meteredContent css-6wov7h\">\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">In the middle of the maneuvering was\u00a0<a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/20\/podcasts\/the-daily\/prince-andrew-arrest-epstein.html\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">Mr. Epstein received updates on the hunt for Microsoft\u2019s new chief executive from company insiders and offered them play-by-play advice, according to the latest release of documents from the Justice Department detailing the financier\u2019s life before he was jailed in 2019 on federal sex-trafficking charges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/24\/technology\/jeffrey-epstein-microsoft-executives.html?unlocked_article_code=1.O1A.hceB.G46uM_0r29qw&amp;smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More here &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Jeffrey Epstein Ingratiated Himself With Top Microsoft Executives For more than two decades, the convicted sex offender developed a network at the tech giant, making him privy to succession discussions and other business. By\u00a0Erin Griffith\u00a0and\u00a0Karen Weise, NY Times\u00a0 Microsoft\u00a0was in turmoil in 2011. The company had whiffed on smartphones and internet search. Steve Ballmer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":12858423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12858422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-available"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12858422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12858422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12858422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12858425,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12858422\/revisions\/12858425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12858423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12858422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12858422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12858422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}