Associated Press

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Brown University placed a fundraising director on administrative leave after a report accused him of participating in covering up disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s connections to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab.

Brown spokesman Brian Clark told The Providence Journal on Sunday that Peter Cohen, director of development for computer and data science, is on leave, pending a review. Clark said Brown didn’t receive donations from Epstein.

Cohen couldn't be reached for comment Monday.

MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito resigned Saturday. The New Yorker reported Friday that the lab had a more extensive fundraising relationship with Epstein than it acknowledged and tried to conceal the extent of it.

The story included emails from Cohen, who was the lab’s director of development and strategy, about Epstein.

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