Free Speech Union names Epstein Associate as Chairman of the Board

Lawrence Krauss also gave the keynote speech at FSU Canada's Toronto launch on Nov 28, 2025

Call me crazy, but if I were setting up a brand new organization dedicated to fighting tyranny I wouldn’t choose a guy who is on record defending Jeffrey Epstein after he’d been sentenced for procuring a child for prostitution in 2008. I would not want my Free Speech Union to be tainted by a man whose judgment allowed him to accept Epstein’s money between 2010 and 2017 and whose email correspondence with Epstein twice revolved around soliciting advice on how to handle allegations of sexual misconduct which had been brought against him.

The documents released last week reveal new details about the private relationship between Krauss and Epstein. They show that Krauss turned to Epstein several times for advice on handling sexual misconduct allegations after he left CWRU.

On Aug. 24, 2017, Krauss reached out to Epstein, asking “can we talk tonight? I need advise.” He followed up two hours later: “I have a question of some urgency.”

Krauss’s question concerned a new allegation of misconduct. ASU’s Office of Equity and Inclusion had recently opened an investigation into a November 2016 incident where Krauss allegedly grabbed a woman’s breast at the Australian Skeptics Convention in Melbourne, Australia.

Hours later, Epstein responded. “Consult a lawyer beforehand, if possible, but be cooperative/nice at this stage,” he wrote. “But this sounds like an internal discipline matter rather than Title IX.”

After receiving Krauss’s message, Epstein contacted Ken Starr, former president and chancellor of Baylor University, who vacated both positions in 2016 following accusations that Baylor failed to address multiple reports of rape and sexual assault from female students. Epstein explained Krauss’ situation. Starr asked: “What’s the student-status, if any, of the ‘victim?’”

ASU’s initial investigation concluded there was inadequate evidence to determine whether Krauss violated university policy.

Another exchange took place in December 2017, after Aldhous, the BuzzFeed journalist, contacted Krauss for comment on six reported incidents of alleged sexual misconduct, including three at CWRU.

Four hours later, Krauss sent multiple drafts of refutations of each of the six listed allegations to Epstein. Epstein recommended putting out a short, general statement communicating that “[the allegations] are false. they were either investigated and found lacking or ignored.”

Twelve hours after contacting Epstein, Krauss responded to Aldhous, denying the incidents.

“Thank you for your responses, which state that the allegations made against you are false and/or distorted,” Aldhous replied. “That does raise a question: Why do you think that multiple women, over more than a decade, have separately made accusations against you?”

Aldhous then asked about an allegedly consensual encounter between Krauss and a volunteer at an event in Washington, D.C. in 2006. Again, Krauss wrote Epstein for advice.

“did you have sex with her? Condom? Did she take it?” Epstein asked. “I wouldn’t respond. My advice is consistent. Off the record.”

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In March 2018, ASU placed Krauss on administrative leave and reopened its investigation into the Australian Skeptics Convention case. Based on interviews with the victim and two eyewitnesses, investigators concluded that Krauss “created an offensive environment for academic pursuits” and had violated the university’s Code of Ethics. Krauss was removed from his position as the director of ASU’s Origins Project in August. He resigned in May 2019.

(source: https://observer.case.edu/former-cwru-professor-krauss-appears-in-epstein-files/)

For these reasons (and more) I am left scratching my head regarding the Free Speech Union of Canada’s decision to go with Lawrence Krauss as their inaugural Chairman of the Board.

As demonstrated in the newly released trove of Epstein emails, Krauss is on the inside of one of the “Big Clubs” that controls politicians and pundits via influence and blackmail. One could argue that perhaps Krauss was a victim of blackmail himself and that is why he continued to associate with and beg favours from Epstein since in 2006 Krauss hosted an event called “Confronting Gravity” which was not only funded by Epstein but also included a trip to the pedophile’s US Virgin Island hideaway.

Whether Krauss is compromised by that sort of escapade or not it’s clear that he plays into a system that pits the powerful against the powerless, the connected against the disenfranchised and that in an ocean of fish he swims with the sharks.

How will the Canadian Free Speech Union use their fundraising, membership and management? Will they speak out against The Big Club that we ain’t in? Or is their true intent to join it? Given their decision to install Lawrence Krauss as Chairman of the Board I think we have an answer.

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