MIT professor defended Jeffrey Epstein associate in leaked emails, claimed victims were 'entirely willing'

Fox News Flash top headlines for Sept. 14 are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com Famed Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) computer scientist Richard Stallman is under fire after a leaked email thread showed him defending an associate of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, claiming that his alleged victims were "entirely willing." In the email thread, leaked by MIT alum Salam Jie Gano to VICE on Friday, Stallman argued that the late Marvin Minsky – an AI pioneer who died in 2016 and is accused of assaulting one of Epstein's victims, Virginia Giuffre, - had not actually assaulted anyone. "The word'assaulting' presumes that he applied force or violence, in some unspecified way, but the article itself says no such thing. Only that they had sex," he wrote, referring to an article about Giuffre's testimony against Minsky.