Goldman Sachs top lawyer Kathy Ruemmler to step down after email fallout

summit Goldman Sachs lawyer Cathy Rumler She said Thursday night that she will leave the investment bank at the end of June, a move that follows the recent release of additional documents detailing her often intimate conversations with the notorious sexual predator. Jeffrey Epstein.

Goldman defended Ruemmler for months afterward Ministry of Justice Emails between her and Epstein, as well as others, were initially released Documents related to his investigation.

“Since joining Goldman Sachs six years ago, I have had the privilege of helping to oversee the firm’s legal and regulatory reputational matters; enhancing our robust risk management processes; and ensuring that we live by our core value of integrity in everything we do,” Rumler said in a statement.

“My responsibility is to put the interests of Goldman Sachs first,” Rumler said.

“Earlier today, I regretfully reported [Goldman CEO] David Solomon announced my intention to step down as Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel of Goldman Sachs, effective June 30, 2026.”

“Throughout her tenure, Kathy has been an extraordinary general counsel, and we are grateful for her contributions and sound advice on a wide range of legal matters relevant to the company,” Solomon said in a statement.

“As one of the most accomplished professionals in her field, Kathy was also a mentor and friend to many of our employees, and she will be missed. I have accepted her resignation, and I respect her decision,” Solomon said.

Her announcement that she was leaving Goldman, which was a first I mentioned Written by the Financial Times, it comes days after The Wall Street Journal reported that Rumler was one of three people contacted by Epstein on July 6, 2019, after federal authorities arrested him for child sex trafficking at an airport in New Jersey.

The newspaper report cites a set of handwritten notes by law enforcement about comments Epstein made inside an FBI vehicle after his arrest.

CNBC confirmed that these memos are among the documents released by the Department of Justice in late January.

At the time of that call, Rumler was a white-collar criminal defense attorney with Latham & Watkins. She said she never represented Epstein, who committed suicide in a federal prison in New York weeks after his arrest.

“These documents are consistent with what Ms. Rummler has repeatedly said: She knew Epstein when she was a criminal defense attorney and shared a client with him,” Jennifer Connelly, Rummler’s spokeswoman, told the newspaper for her story on Friday.

“She was friendly with him in that context. She had no knowledge of any ongoing criminal behavior on his part,” Connelly said.

Rummler previously served as White House counsel under the former president Barack Obama.

Ruemmler is the chief legal officer and general counsel of Goldman. She is also a key advisor to Goldman CEO David Solomon.

She is the latest person to lose a high-profile position due to her past association with Epstein.

Sunday, Morgan Sweeney He resigned from the position of Chief of Staff British Prime Minister Keir StarmerSaying that he bears responsibility for advising Starmer on the appointment Peter Mandelson As UK Ambassador to the United States. Starmer fired Mandelson from the position in September over revelations of his relationship with Epstein.

last week, Brad KarpChairman of the Board of Directors of a major law firm Paul WeissHe resigned from this position after the fallout from emails between him and Epstein. Karp resides at the company.

In response to Epstein’s emails, spokesman Paul Weiss previously said: “Mr. Karp did not witness or engage in any misconduct. Mr. Karp attended two group dinners in New York City and had a small number of social interactions via email, all of which he regrets.”

Karp said he was leaving the board chairman position due to distracting news stories.

In November, after a congressional committee released emails between Rummler and Epstein, Tony Fratto, a spokesman for Goldman Sachs, told CNBC: “These emails were private correspondence long before Kathy Rummler joined Goldman Sachs.

“Kathy is an exceptional general counsel and we benefit from her judgment every day,” Fratto said at the time.

Rummler had previously told the newspaper that she regretted knowing Epstein.

In a new batch of emails released by the Justice Department in late January, there is an email that Rumler sent to Epstein in March 2019, four months before his arrest.

In that email, she offered advice on how to respond to criticism that he had previously received special treatment and a reduced sentence in 2008 because of his wealth and political connections when he avoided federal prosecution in exchange for pleading guilty in Florida state court to a charge of soliciting prostitution from an underage girl.

At the time Epstein sought Rumler’s advice, he was the subject of a series of articles in the Miami Herald that criticized federal prosecutors’ decision not to bring charges against him in 2008. Epstein ended up spending just 13 months in Florida state prison, but was let out to go to his office during the day for most of that time.

The email subject line, “From wapo,” indicates that Epstein was contacting Rumler because of a Washington Post inquiry about him.

“Something like this:…” The criticism is false and fundamentally reflective, Rummler wrote in the email [misunderstanding] For both the facts behind Mr. Epstein’s case and what it was like [prosecuted] By local and federal authorities.

“Away from [receiving] Dear deal, Mr. Epstein was subjected to a long, aggressive deal, [and] A highly unusual federal investigation into what was, in essence, a local investigation [offenses] “From sexual temptation,” Rumler wrote. “He accepted responsibility and served [time and] Imprisonment and paying large financial compensation to the victims [involved]”.

Rumler also suggested, in a parenthetical section, saying something like, “But given his wealth, it is difficult to imagine that Mr. Epstein… would have received the aggressive treatment he received from [federal] Prosecutors, he certainly would not have been subjected to [salacious] And the malicious treatment by the media that he continues to receive more than 10 years after the case was resolved.”