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Goldman Sachs high lawyer resigns after emails present Jeffrey Epstein friendship
Kathyrn Ruemmler, who resigned as Goldman Sachs’s basic counsel, was additionally a companion and vice chair of its reputational threat committee and a former White Home counsel underneath President Obama. (Goldman Sachs picture)
Kathryn Ruemmler, Goldman Sachs’s basic counsel, resigned on Thursday within the wake of the Justice Division’s launch of emails and different materials depicting her lengthy friendship with intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Ruemmler maintained for years that she had a strictly skilled relationship with Epstein, a convicted intercourse offender. However emails, textual content messages and images launched in January present as a substitute years of friendship. Ruemmler was talked about in additional than 10,000 of the paperwork launched by the Justice Division, based on a report by the New York Occasions.
“My accountability is to place Goldman Sachs’s pursuits first,” Ruemmler stated in a press release confirming the resignation.
Goldman’s chief government, David M. Solomon, stated he revered her resolution, describing her as “a mentor and buddy to lots of our folks,” based on the New York Occasions.
Earlier than becoming a member of Goldman in 2020, Ruemmler suggested Epstein on how to reply to powerful questions on his intercourse crimes and keep away from unfavorable press, together with discussing her personal courting life. She addressed Epstein as “sweetie” and “Uncle Jeffrey.” Epstein supplied profession recommendation on her transfer to Goldman and launched her to well-known businesspeople. He additionally showered her with presents of spa therapies, journeys and Hermes luxurious objects, based on the New York Occasions.
Ruemmler not solely served at Goldman as basic counsel, she was additionally a companion and vice chair of its reputational threat committee. She was White Home counsel underneath President Obama and a white-collar protection lawyer at Latham & Watkins, based on the New York Occasions.
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