"Former Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said Monday he’s ditching his public gigs after a trove of embarrassing emails with Jeffrey Epstein burst into view.
Summers, a former Harvard president and current professor, said he’ll keep teaching but will “be stepping back from public commitments as one part of my broader effort.”
His retreat comes after Harvard’s student newspaper, the Crimson, laid out a string of messages between Summers and Epstein, documents obtained after the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee subpoenaed Epstein’s estate and released more than 20,000 records last week.
The Crimson reported that when Summers was “pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee,” he turned to none other than the already-convicted sex offender for advice.
Emails and texts from late 2018 through mid-2019 showed Summers — who is married — asking Epstein how to handle the situation, a full decade after Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida to soliciting sex from an underage girl.
In those exchanges, Epstein played the role of armchair dating coach. The Crimson noted one message in which Epstein boasted that he was acting as Summers’ “wing man.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi said she had asked Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton — at President Donald Trump’s request — to investigate Epstein’s links to Summers, former President Bill Clinton, billionaire Reid Hoffman, and JPMorgan Chase."
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