Sam Bankman-Fried was born in 1992 on the campus of Stanford University into a Jewish family. He is the son of Barbara Fried and Joseph Bankman, both professors at Stanford Law School. His aunt Linda P. Fried is the dean of Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
Jeffery Sachs's classes are taught at the School of International and Public Affairs and the Mailman School of Public Health.

Peter Daszak is the president of EcoHealth Alliance, he is a member of the Center for Infection and Immunity at the Columbia University Mailman School
of Public Health.

Walter Ian Lipkin (born November 18, 1952) is the John Snow Professor of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and a professor of Neurology and Pathology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University.
The Skoll Foundation partnered with Google's philanthropic arm, Google.org to fund Nathan Wolfe's 2008 research into cross-species transmission amongst Cameroonian bushmeat hunters.

Nathan Wolfe is the founder of Metabiota, he serves on the editorial board of
EcoHealth and Scientific American and is a member of DARPA's Defense Science Research Council.

As reported in a Wired feature in 2020, Wolfe worked with the German insurance firm Munich Re to offer major corporate leaders pandemic policies, which were not purchased; a stark
reality during the ensuing COVID-19 pandemic.

During the Nazi dictatorship Munich Re benefited from anti-Semitic persecution. Jewish customers had to cancel their life insurances prematurely leading to huge profits for the insurance companies.

In February 2010, U.S. investor
Warren Buffett became Munich Re's largest single shareholder.

Yen Pottinger joined ICAP in 2015 as the senior laboratory advisor for the Population-based HIV Impact.

ICAP at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health (formerly the International Center for AIDS Care
and Treatment Programs) supports programs and research that address HIV/AIDS and related conditions and works to strengthen health systems.

In 2014, Matt Pottinger married Dr. Yen Duong.

In September 2019, newly installed National Security Advisor Robert C. O'Brien named
Matt Pottinger Deputy National Security Advisor.

Matt Pottinger joined the Hoover Institution as a distinguished fellow and is a participant on its "China's Global Sharp Power Project" research team. He serves as chairman of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' China
Program (FDD).

In 2018, AP reported that the United Arab Emirates has wired $2,500,000 to the FDD through Elliott Broidy and George Nader, to host a conference amidst Qatar diplomatic crisis about the country's role as a state-sponsor of terrorism.

George Nader has repeatedly
acted as an unofficial liaison between United States politicians and the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia and as a lobbyist for private security firm Blackwater.

Nader has served as an adviser to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates and as a
consultant to Blackwater founder Erik Prince.

In 2016, investment funds managed by Apollo acquired Constellis for $1 billion. Constellis is a private military contractor that was created as a result of a merger between rival contractors Triple Canopy and Academi in 2014.
Academi, founded by Erik Prince and formerly known as Blackwater USA.

Leon Black stepped down as CEO and chairman of Apollo Global Management in 2021, after revelations that he paid family office tax-related advice over the period from 2012 to 2017.
One of Epstein's clients was the Saudi Arabian businessman Adnan Khashoggi, who was the middleman in transferring American weapons from Israel to Iran, as part of the Iran–Contra affair in the 1980s.

Between 1970 and 1975, Lockheed paid Khashoggi $106 million in commissions.
His commissions started at 2.5% and eventually rose to as much as 15%. Khashoggi "became for all practical purposes a marketing arm of Lockheed.

In August 2005, James Comey left the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to become a senior vice president of Lockheed Martin as general
counsel. In 2010, he became general counsel at Bridgewater Associates.

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