Karima Nigmatulina, the MIT-educated nuclear scientist who Gates named, once worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory where two employees have vanished, with one found dead last month
Michele McPhee
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Bill Gates rattled off the names of three women he had affairs with in testimony to Congress last week, where he was questioned about his relationship to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who, he confessed, he suspected planned to blackmail him about his extramarital activities.
All three women were mentioned in the Epstein files,aLAmaginvestigationhas found. One, Karima Nigmatulina, was a nuclear scientist who was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and had worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, the nuclear research facility linked to two high-profile missing persons cases.
Theskeletal remains of Melissa Casiaswere found in a nearby forest last month, a year after she vanished. The other, retired Los Alamos employee,Anthony Chavez,has not been found. Their disappearances are now part of an FBI investigation. The House Oversight Committee is also a cluster of missing or deceased scientists working in U.S. nuclear and aerospace sectors
The lab is about an hour away from Epstein’s sprawling and secluded New Mexico property, Zorro Ranch. Epstein even hiredBradbury Stamm Construction, the same industrial contractor that built the classified, high-security facilities at the Los Alamos lab, to construct his 10,000 square foot ranch.
TheNew Mexico Department of Justiceis currently immersed in what it calls “an active criminal investigation into New Mexico-related matters involving Jeffrey Epstein, including activities connected to Zorro Ranch.” Earlier this year, the state legislature unanimously passed a bill that also created what it calls an Epstein Truth Commission.
“New Mexicans deserve to know the truth about what went on at the Zorro Ranch and who knew about it,” said lead sponsor Rep. Andrea Romero (D-Santa Fe). “We have heard years of allegations and rumors about Epstein’s activities in New Mexico, but unfortunately, federal investigations have failed to put together an official record.
Epstein maintained extensive relationships with Los Alamos laboratory employees, according to the Justice Department document dump, dating back more than a decade. He had said in previous interviews that he bought the sprawling property in northern New Mexico to be close to scientists.
According to the Justice Department documents, Epstein had enjoyed a correspondence with several prominent scientists tied to the lab, including Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann, who collaborated with projects there, along withGeoffrey West, who was a founder of the high-energy physics group at Los Alamos.
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West correspondedwith Epstein’s aides in 2011, and met with him at Zorro Ranch in 2012, long after the billionaire’s 2008 sex trafficking conviction, which should have forced him to register as an offender in New Mexico.West did turn down an offerto fly on Epstein’s jet that same year.
Gates’ revelation about his affair with Nigmatulina also tied her topandemic mitigation research at Los Alamos, which, according to her research published by ResearchGate, included testing the effectiveness of social distancing, travel restrictions, and vaccinations. She undertook similar research in projects funded by Gates and is now a city planner in Moscow. Epstein attempted to meet with her in Russia,according to the Justice Department files. It’s unclear if that meeting took place afterEpstein attempted to organize it with a longtime Gates Foundation employee, Boris Nikolik.
