A longtime professor at NYU wrote an email to Jeffrey Epstein celebrating the financier’s “financial successes” just days after his sick crimes hit headlines in 2015, Department of Justice documents reveal.
James B. Rosenwald, III, an adjunct professor at the Stern School of Business since 2012, wrote the glowing letter to the then-convicted sex criminal, who taught him physics at the Upper East Side’s posh Dalton School from 1974 to 1976.
“Your name popped up again in the Press and I thought it was time to congratulate you on your wonderful financial successes since your days as my Physics prof at Dalton!!” Rosenwald, who did not respond to requests for comment, wrote on Jan. 5, 2015.
“Unless your PR advisor is Donald Trump, I am not sure that current press provides you with much benefit. Perhaps I am wrong? Not the first time!”
Days earlier, two anonymous women — one of whom ended up being Virginia Giuffre — filed headline-making court documents in Florida alleging Epstein forced them to have sex with England’s now-disgraced Prince Andrew between 1999 and 2002, when they were minors.
“Ps. David Asch and I toasted to you during our Thanksgiving weekend in Amagansett in November,” Rosenwald ends his note.
Asch, another Dalton attendee, is now Senior Vice President of the University of Pennsylvania, according to NYU News. He did not respond to a request for comment.
“Thanks, what is david doing?” Epstein replied in an email that appeared to fail to go through to Rosenwald.
Rosenwald is chief investment officer and the co-founder of Dalton Global Opportunity fund, according to LinkedIn.
Epstein, a Cooper Union drop-out was hired to teach at just 21-years-old by then-Dalton headmaster Donald Barr, the father of Bill Barr, who was Attorney General when the feds say Epstein committed suicide in federal lockup on Aug. 10, 2019.
