Kathy Ruemmler, the top lawyer at Goldman Sachs and former White House counsel to Barack Obama, has announced her resignation in the wake of emails showing a close relationship between her and Jeffrey Epstein, whom she referred to as “Uncle Jeffrey”.
Ruemmler said in a statement on Thursday that she would “step down as Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel of Goldman Sachs as of June 30, 2026”.
Up until her resignation, Ruemmler repeatedly tried to distance herself from the emails and other correspondence and had been defiant that she would not resign from Goldman’s top legal post, which she had held since 2020.
While Ruemmler has called Epstein a “monster” in recent statements, she had a much different relationship with him before he was arrested a second time for sex crimes in 2019 and later killed himself in a Manhattan jail; Ruemmler called Epstein “Uncle Jeffrey” in emails and said she adored him.
In a statement before her resignation, a Goldman Sachs spokesperson said Ruemmler “regrets ever knowing him.”
During her time in private practice after she left the White House in 2014, Ruemmler received several expensive gifts from Epstein, including luxury handbags and a fur coat. The gifts were given after Epstein had already been convicted of sex crimes in 2008 and was registered as a sex offender.
“Uncle Jeffrey” yikes. This woman did not break the cycle of abuse and chose to participate and perhaps cheer from the sidelines, like people of color working for ICE. Makes me sad for all.
Are the only people who are going to face consequences for having ties to Epstein going to be women and people in other countries?
No. It will also include anyone who had even a slight relationship to Obama, as she did.
If Americans continue to be cowards, yes.
Pretty much. See the consequences are mostly voluntary at this point. So anyone who doesn’t feel shame will likely not bother unless they are actually accountable to others who are not in the files.
Krause is on twitter telling people they’re hallucinating his involvement when the people are literally sharing his own emails with him
“…said Ruemmler ‘regrets ever knowing him’…”
Fuck, and, off.It’s been known for years before he got convicted what sort of person he was. She regrets getting caught, nothing else. Fucking ghoul.
They all knew he did those things. They just overlooked it like assholes. Distracting my ass.
