"Staffers in Ito's office
referred to Epstein as "Voldemort" and "He who shall not be named,"
The New Yorker reported, due to the anonymous status of the donations granted by Epstein to the university, and the general secrecy that enveloped Ito's communications with the financier.
Ito attempted to conceal visits Epstein made to the lab by writing his initials or "VIP" in his itinerary, as opposed to Epstein's full name. MIT publicly admitted to receiving $800,000 from Epstein, which its president said would be given to a fund to support victims of sexual assault.
Privately, Ito received at least another $1.2 million from Epstein, in addition to the $7.5 million "directed by" Epstein to MIT. Emails show Cohen noting that Epstein's donations must be recorded anonymously, and showed him soliciting advice from the financier, such as when he emailed "you or Jeffrey would know best" to Ito."
https://news.yahoo.com/mit-media-lab-director-joi-193849242.html
The MIT connection is probably discussed the most, but there are Epstein donation connections showing up at places like Brown, Harvard, etc., that very likely could have had the same arrangements made behind the scenes.
The question is why is someone like Epstein giving money to these institutions? My guess is that he is giving them money so that someone else remains hidden and behind the scenes that Epstein was "managing finances" for and that a connection to these institutions is supposed to be a way to get information about what is going on at these institutions.
Whatever this money was expected to buy at places like MIT, these are big venues that are being lost for a period of time until or if there is a new way to keep or achieve the same connections, which is a very good thing.