Name: Goldman Sachs' top lawyer resigns over Epstein files
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Fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein files has now reached one of the largest investment banks in the world, Goldman Sachs.

The bank's chief legal officer, Kathy Rummler, now says she is resigning.

In recent weeks, she has weathered numerous stories examining her relationship with Epstein over the years.

Rummler is a former White House counsel to President Obama.

She and those around her have insisted that she her relationship with Epstein, it was a professional relationship through and through and ended.

A spokesperson for Rummler declined to answer some of the detailed questions sent to them from cnn, but

said that Rummler said this has done nothing wrong, has nothing to hide, nothing in the record suggests otherwise, adding that Rummler has been clear and consistent from the outset.

She knew him through her work as a criminal defense attorney, shared a client with him, received referrals from him, and

was friendly in that professional context.

After her announcement, her resignation announcement, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, David Solomon, told CNN this.

Throughout her tenure, Kathy has been an extraordinary general counsel and we are grateful for her contributions.

I accepted her resignation and I respect her decision.

An exclusive K file report uncovering new details about top Goldman Sachs executive and former Obama White House counsel Kathy Rummler's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

A review of hundreds of emails between Epstein and Rumler, a woman he once called his quote, voice great defender, shows discussions about Epstein's legal and reputational troubles as well as more personal communications like plans for a proposed trip to Epstein's island and gifts he'd given her.

Rumler has repeatedly said she regrets ever knowing Epstein and that she had, quote, no knowledge of any new or ongoing unlawful activity on his part.

Out front now, K files Andrew Kaczynski, who has been breaking all of this reporting.

Well, Aaron, these new messages reveal even more details about Kathy Rumler's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, a relationship that, according to these emails, both of them described as a friendship.

There are hundreds of email exchanges between the two.

Some of the messages, they discussed Epstein's legal battles and reputational problems after his 2008 conviction.

Other communications between the two include plans for a proposed trip to Epstein's island and responses to gifts he'd given Rummler.

Instance, she wrote, quote, quote, totally tricked out by Uncle Jeffrey today.

Now, in some of these back and forth messages, Rummler discussed personal matters in her life.

She expressed gratitude for their, quote, friendship sometimes concluded her messages to Epstein with the sign up XO and xoxo.

There's one example we found where Rummler sent Epstein a message on his 62nd birthday in 2015 to wish him well, writing, I hope you enjoy the day with your one true love.

Adding a smiley face, Epstein replied with a raunchy note and an apparent reference to masturbation, writing, they say men usually give a name to their penis as it would be inappropriate to make love to a total stranger.

Now, after receiving Epstein's racy reply, Rummler responded, hard to believe there is still an open question about whether men are the inferior gender.

Okay, so what has Rummler said about this message?

Well, Aaron, we asked them about that, and they referred this exchange.

Ruemmler and her communications team referred CNN's questions about this to her attorney, Tom Claire.

He said, quote, the fact is, Ms. Rumler does not make any statement about Epstein's penis.

She does not banter with Epstein about it.

She does not accede to Epstein's unsolicited gratuitous remarks about men and their penises.

Her participation in the entire exchange in, I think he meant, is limited to wishing Epstein a happy birthday, ridiculing Epstein for the remark, and

Okay, so the files also reveal new details about how Ruemmler advised Epstein regarding some of his legal and reputational problems.

So what more can you tell us about that tonight?

In one exchange from February 2015, Rummler addressed a Crimes Victims Rights act lawsuit brought by Epstein's accusers.

That's the lawsuit which sought to reopen his so called sweetheart plea deal from 2008.

Rummler wrote to Epstein, I told you that the CVRA case is about money.

And in another message, after inquiring about which lawyer was handling the case, Rummer wrote, victims writes my ass.

In Another message from July 2015, Rummler forwarded Epstein a New York Times story which featured critics of sex offender registries like the one Epstein had been listed on for years by then.

Did you see the New York Times story, Wray?

Thinking about whether there is an opportunity there.

Now, a spokesperson for Rummer told CNN in a statement that Epstein, quote, sought informal advice and she provided feedback based on her understanding at the time without any formal involvement.

Okay, well, you also found emails that show Rummler responding to an invitation from Epstein to visit that infamous private Caribbean island, right?

According to the newly released files, Rummler at one point inquired about taking a quote day trip to Epstein's private Island.

In a January 16, 2017 email that you can see right here, Epstein asked if he could have a plane picker up in St.

Rummler replied, asking, can we take a day trip to the island on Saturday or is it too far?

Emails then show a week later Epstein appearing to coordinate a private jet to pick her up and referencing a copy of Rummler's passport.

This trip appears to have fallen through, though, with Rummer writing two days later, there was, quote, still too much risk in the air.

Later that year, a topic of the island actually came up again in messages between the two.

After Hurricane Irma damaged the island, Rummler mused traveling there to help Epstein clean up, writing, you know how much I like physical labor.

It's unclear whether Rummler ever visited the island and she has denied ever going there.

Okay, so what is she saying about these emails then?

So, Aaron, Jennifer Connelly, Rummler's spokesperson, declined to answer some of the detailed questions from CNN, but

Rummler has done nothing wrong and has nothing to hide.

Nothing in the record suggests otherwise.

Jeffrey Epstein was a man of a thousand faces.

Ms. Rummeler only saw the one he put on to win people over and gain credibility and acceptance.

his denials of any wrongdoing other than what he had pled guilty to years prior to Ms.

Romer has been clear and consistent from the outset.

At times, Epstein sought informal advice and she provided feedback based on her understanding at the time, without any formal involvement.

Rummler has deep sympathy for those harmed by Epstein, and

if she knew then what she knows now, she never would have dealt with him.

Erin all right, Andrew Kaczynski from K File with more incredible reporting on the story.

Joining me right now is Gretchen Carlson, the co founder of Lift Our Voices nonprofit that works to end mechanisms that prevent survivors of sexual assault and harassment from being able to speak out publicly has been a very important voice in this conversation through and through.

So you see this Kathy Rumler announcing this resignation.

This is really the first real fallout, I think we could say, or consequence that has happened in the United States from the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

What it says to me is that this is all about power, right?

And that it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman or a Republican or a Democrat or an independent.

And especially when you're involved in this level of power.

I don't think we should be surprised to see women who are on the Democratic side or otherwise being the people that are going to fall down from this.

Now whether or not she did anything illegal is not what the question here is.

The question is that she continued an association with a known child sex trafficker and she received gifts in return.

And you know, so this is very questionable that somebody should be as high up as she is at Goldman Sachs.