BUFFETT SAYS GATES “MADE MISTAKES”
Buffett said Gates, a longtime friend who was also a Berkshire director for 16 years, visited him in Omaha three weeks ago.
That meeting followed the US Department of Justice’s release in February of files about Gates’ relationship with Epstein, including efforts at philanthropy.
Gates also met with Congress last month about the financier. He has repeatedly expressed regret for having anything to do with Epstein, and has not been accused of crimes.
“While it’s distasteful, while he made mistakes, I made mistakes in hiring all kinds of people, or choosing friends, and then finding out later that one way or other they weren’t what I thought,” Buffett said.
Buffett nonetheless called donating to the Gates Foundation a “good decision” and expressed no regrets for his relationship with Bill Gates.
“We have had [an] enormous number of good times together,” Buffett said. “It has been a wonderful friendship.”
Epstein died in a Manhattan jail cell in August 2019, following his arrest on sex trafficking charges. New York City’s medical examiner called the death a suicide.
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