Friday, February 13 2026 - The former White House counsel under President Barack Obama has resigned from Goldman Sachs over her ties to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Kathryn Ruemmler, who works as general counsel at Goldman, will
resign this summer after emails released by the Justice Department revealed her
conversations with Epstein, according to The Financial Times.
'I made the determination that the media attention on me,
relating to my prior work as a defense attorney, was becoming a distraction,'
Ruemmler told the publication.
She will exit the firm on June 30.
Ruemmler rose to the top ranks at Wall Street and became a
key adviser to Solomon following a storied legal career, which included serving
as White House counsel to former President Barack Obama, the Wall Street
Journal reports.
Executives at the firm had previously claimed that Ruemmler
had a strictly professional relationship with the financier, as she argued she
never represented Epstein or advocated for him though he would occasionally ask
for her advice.
She has said she regretted ever knowing Epstein and had no
knowledge of any new or ongoing illegal activity.
'I made decisions based on the information that was
available to me,' she told the Financial Times. 'I have an enormous amount of
sympathy and heartache for anyone he hurt.'
But the latest release of Epstein files shows Ruemmler
hailing 'wonderful Jeffrey' in emails dated December 25 and 26, 2015, six years
after he served 13 months in prison for prostituting an underage girl.
She was even in the courtroom when Epstein was arraigned on
sex trafficking charges in 2019, and he once even listed her as a backup
executor of his will.
Their relationship apparently began around the time Ruemmler
left the Obama administration in 2014.
In one correspondence dated September 19, 2014, Epstein told
her, 'You need to talk to boss.'
Ruemmler, who had left the Obama White House about three
months earlier, according to her LinkedIn page, replied: 'Agreed, but I need to
be prepared to say yes before I talk to him.'
'Understood,' Epstein said. 'It comes down to high risk /
reward / low risk / reward. professional, emotional. and fiinancial [sic].'
She responded that 'most girls do not have to worry about
this crap.'
Epstein shot back: 'Girls? Careful i will renew an old
habit.'
He then listed a group of people he was apparently set to
meet with 'this week,' including Peter Thiel, Larry Summers, Bill Burns, former
British prime minister Gordon Brown, Leon Black and 'Woody.'
'Also if you think there are interesting people in town,
everyone here for climate summit, clinton ,security council,' Epstein added.
Messages from February 2017 also showed Ruemmler disparaging
President Donald Trump, calling him 'so gross.'
'Worse in real life and upclose,' he said.
In other correspondence, Ruemmler referenced Epstein's 'Russians' in an email
about a potential job offer before she joined Goldman, and in a separate
exchange, Ruemmler forwarded the financier's emails about an affair she had
with one of his close associates.
Meanwhile, Epstein showered her with gifts, including a
Hermes bag, Apple products, spa appointments, haircuts, and plane tickets.
'Am totally tricked out by Uncle Jeffrey today!' she wrote
in one email in January 2019. 'Jeffrey boots, handbag, and watch.'
In total, Ruemmler's name is featured hundreds of times in a
log of emails between Epstein and his lawyers, which runs to more than 500
pages.
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