Two weeks after the U.S. Justice Department’s latest batch of 3 million Jeffrey Epstein files revealed the business elite—from Hollywood to New York to Dubai—who were friendly with the late, disgraced financier, the corporate world is still sifting through his murky paper trail. And boards and business leaders are facing tricky questions as they decide how to dole out consequences for executives who were Epstein’s close confidants even after he was convicted of sex crimes in 2008 and registered as a sex offender.
Among the thorny questions they’re asking: Who knew what, and when? Did an executive commit a crime or just exhibit bad judgment? And to what standard do we hold leaders in a society that has developed a high tolerance for scandal?
