BUFFETT SAYS GATES “MADE MISTAKES”
Buffett mentioned Gates, a longtime buddy who was additionally a Berkshire director for 16 years, visited him in Omaha three weeks in the past.
That assembly adopted the US Division of Justice’s launch in February of information about Gates’ relationship with Epstein, together with efforts at philanthropy.
Gates additionally met with Congress final month concerning the financier. He has repeatedly expressed remorse for having something to do with Epstein, and has not been accused of crimes.
“Whereas it’s distasteful, whereas he made errors, I made errors in hiring all types of individuals, or selecting pals, after which discovering out later that a method or different they weren’t what I believed,” Buffett mentioned.
Buffett nonetheless known as donating to the Gates Basis a “good determination” and expressed no regrets for his relationship with Invoice Gates.
“Now we have had [an] huge variety of good instances collectively,” Buffett mentioned. “It has been a beautiful friendship.”
Epstein died in a Manhattan jail cell in August 2019, following his arrest on intercourse trafficking fees. New York Metropolis’s health worker known as the dying a suicide.
