Donald Barr, the father of Attorney General William Barr, hired 21-year-old college dropout named Jeffrey Epstein to teach math at the prestigious Dalton School in the the 1970s. In previous interviews, he described Epstein's suicide as a 'perfect storm of screw-ups' and has insisted that Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's alleged madam who is … Court records show Kirkland & Ellis continued to represented Epstein through 2011, while Barr worked at the firm. There is concern over William Barr’s involvement in Epstein’s case, not only for the way he handled Robert Mueller’s testimony over the Russian probe, but because of his personal ties with Epstein himself.While it was once thought that Barr would be recusing himself from having oversight on the Epstein prosecution, on July 9, it was clarified that Barr consulted with career ethics officials at the department, and concluded that he only needed to recuse himself from the internal Justice Department probe of Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, and his involvement of approving a highly controversial no-prosecution deal with Epstein back in the 2008.On July 8, Barr made his final comments on the matter and said, “I am recused from that matter because one of the law firms that represented Epstein long ago was a firm I subsequently joined for a period of time.” Back in 2007, Epstein pleaded guilty to a state charge of soliciting sex and prostitution with an underaged girl, was sentenced to to 13 months incarceration, but spent a bulk of that time on work release or in the jail’s private wing.The deal was made between Acosta, who previously worked at Kirkland & Ellis, and was the Miami U.S. attorney at the time, and Kirkland & Ellis senior partner Jay Lefkowitz, along with colleagues Kenneth Starr, Gerald Lefcourt, and Alan Dershowitz.
In 1973, Barr’s father Donald, the headmaster at Manhattan’s Dalton School, hired Epstein as a calculus and physics teacher. While hiring Epstein, a noted mathematics genius, was not strange on its face, the hire was unusual for a couple of reasons. Epstein taught at the school between 1974 and 1976. Donald Barr also wrote this sci-fi novel, Space Relations, about sex slavery in space. Epstein, who was charged last week by federal authorities in the Southern District of New York with sex trafficking with sex-trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex-trafficking, was a 20 year old college drop-out when he was hired to teach at Dalton by the school’s headmaster Donald Barr in the mid 1970’s. Barr served in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. He initiated the Columbia University Science Honors Program in 1958 and was its director until 1964. Democrat Representative Steve Cohen accused Attorney General William Barr of allowing Jeffrey Epstein's suicide in a hearing on Tuesday. Frank Figliuzzi, a former FBI Assistant Director for counterintelligence said that Barr’s Father, Donald Barr, once hired Epstein to teach at Dalton School, a private academy in New York City. He was teaching English at Columbia University in 1955.
He is a graduate of Georgetown University and New York Law School and previously worked in financial securities compliance and Civil Rights employment law.Epstein eventually landed at the now-defunct investment firm Bear Stearns.According to at least one former student, Dalton alums have long joked about Barr’s hiring of Epstein..[image via Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office, Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images]