He exchanged emails in 2019, advising Epstein on how to rebuild his reputation and lementing how hysterical people are about abuse of women.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9ykjlyv50o

This is after his 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor as part of his plea deal to avoid going to trial where the prosecution had identified 36 victims between the ages of 14 and 17.

So I guess Chomsky's well honed epistemology wasn't able to detect a pattern here, or his moral clarity is worth spit. I'm fine with either because I think he's correct about 70% of the time, and a populist grifter for the rest.