In August 2018, reporters at ''[[The New York Times]]'' and other publications received word Elon Musk was relying on [[Jeffrey Epstein]] to advise him on whom to consider hiring as board chair or chief executive. Editors at the ''Times'' sent business columnist James Stewart to talk to Epstein. "I wondered why would Musk, if this is true, be using a registered sex offender to recruit new members to the board," Stewart told The Kicker, a podcast from the Columbia Journalism Review. Stewart wrote, "He said that criminalizing sex with teenage girls was a cultural aberration and that at times in history it was perfectly acceptable."<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-interview.html</ref> | In August 2018, reporters at ''[[The New York Times]]'' and other publications received word Elon Musk was relying on [[Jeffrey Epstein]] to advise him on whom to consider hiring as board chair or chief executive. Editors at the ''Times'' sent business columnist James Stewart to talk to Epstein. "I wondered why would Musk, if this is true, be using a registered sex offender to recruit new members to the board," Stewart told The Kicker, a podcast from the Columbia Journalism Review. Stewart wrote, "He said that criminalizing sex with teenage girls was a cultural aberration and that at times in history it was perfectly acceptable."<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-interview.html</ref> |