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SDNY News Clips, Wednesday, July 31, 2019 SDNY News Clips Wednesday, July 31, 2019 Contents Public Corruption 2 Epstein 2 Collins 17 Securities and Commodities Fraud 19 Stewart 19 Thompson 21 Pinto-Thomaz 23 Narcotics 25 Castro 25 Rochester Drug Company 27 Civil 29 Life Spine 29 Matters of Interest 31 The U.S. said a California cherry-picker went to Pakistan for terrorist training. Now the case has collapsed 31 Fed Cuts Interest Rates for First Time Since 2008 Crisis 34 1 EFTA00018466 SDNY News Clips, Wednesday, July 31, 2019 Public Corruption Epstein Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race With His DNA New York Times By James B. Stewart, Matthew Goldstein and Jessica Silver-Greenberg 7/31/19 Jeffrey E. Epstein, the wealthy financier who is accused of sex trafficking, had an unusual dream: He hoped to seed the human race with his DNA by impregnating women at his vast New Mexico ranch. Mr. Epstein over the years confided to scientists and others about his scheme, according to four people familiar with his thinking, although there is no evidence that it ever came to fruition. Mr. Epstein's vision reflected his longstanding fascination with what has become known as transhumanism: the science of improving the human population through technologies like genetic engineering and artificial intelligence. Critics have likened transhumanism to a modern-day version of eugenics, the discredited field of improving the human race through co