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Former Obama official Kathryn Ruemmler resigns from Goldman Sachs over Epstein links
Daily Mail UK ^ | February 12, 2026 | Melissa Koenig

Posted on 02/12/2026 7:42:03 PM PST by Morgana

The former White House counsel under President Obama has resigned from Goldman Sachs over her ties to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Kathryn Ruemmler, who works as general counsel at Goldman, said she 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 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: goldmansachs; jeffreyepstein; kathrynruemmler

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1 posted on 02/12/2026 7:42:03 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Amazing.


2 posted on 02/12/2026 7:43:39 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Morgana

I have posted, DC is the safest place in the USA. Putin or Xi would never Nuke DC and do the people of this country a favor. It’s a whore house at low tide. It stinks. IMO


3 posted on 02/12/2026 7:51:43 PM PST by Equine1952 (MM1SS SASOB)
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To: Morgana

Huh?


4 posted on 02/12/2026 7:55:59 PM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏 the prophesies set before you." ) I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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To: Varsity Flight

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/ex-obama-white-house-counsel-out-at-goldman-sachs-after-files-shed-light-on-friendship-with-jeffrey-epstein/

Uncle Jeffrey


5 posted on 02/12/2026 7:59:21 PM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏 the prophesies set before you." ) I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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To: Varsity Flight

The swamp is draining


6 posted on 02/12/2026 7:59:24 PM PST by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 )
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To: Morgana

Dan Bongino states often that you have to remember the names.

Kathryn Ruemmler was Obama’s White House “Fixer”. She is at the heart of nearly every scummy scandal in the Obama White House.


7 posted on 02/12/2026 8:01:45 PM PST by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est)
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To: rlmorel

I kinda remember that


8 posted on 02/12/2026 8:03:46 PM PST by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 )
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To: Morgana
Couldn't happen to a nicer person.

Kathryn Ruemmler is pure evil.

She was Obama's dirty tricks specialist and fixer who was always in the back room of the worst scandals that happened either as the mastermind or the fixer - or both

Now we learn that she was also one sick little puppy.

9 posted on 02/12/2026 8:05:57 PM PST by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead)
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To: Morgana

While there are a few on the right that were involved the Epstein saga is heavily weighted with lefties. This is just another caught. It seems odd the left is so mesmerized since their side is going to suffer the most damage. Maybe it’s their arrogance that they are untouchable and that it can be used to bring down Trump but so far this seems to be blowing up in their faces.


10 posted on 02/12/2026 8:06:04 PM PST by xp38
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To: Morgana

This just led WCBS CH2 news. And Kristie Johnson made a point of noting Rummeler’s position as Barky’s White House Counsel. That post has a pretty close relationship with POTUS.


11 posted on 02/12/2026 8:08:02 PM PST by xkaydet65
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To: Morgana

Is there anyone in government, Worldwide, who wasn’t involved with Epstein?


12 posted on 02/12/2026 8:15:24 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: Morgana

WIKI

Ruemmler was a close associate of, and met with, Jeffrey Epstein on dozens of occasions between July 2014 and May 2019, according to his schedule, well after he had been convicted of sexual abuse of a minor. These included “lunches and dinners with celebrities, apartment hunting, and personal beauty appointments”, CNN reported. She was on his schedule for a flight to Paris in 2015, as well as a stop at his home in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2017, but she denied that these trips happened, and The Wall Street Journal could not confirm whether they did. She said in 2023: “I regret ever knowing Jeffrey Epstein.”

Ruemmler was listed as a backup executor in a January 2019 version of Jeffrey Epstein’s will, a disclosure from Congress showed on September 8, 2025. She was in frequent email correspondence with Epstein from 2014 to 2018, at times soliciting his advice regarding a prospective job offer or sharing chummy musings about ordinary Americans, as emails released by the House Oversight Committee in November 2025 revealed.

Ruemmler called Epstein “wonderful Jeffrey” and wrote “I adore him” in a December 2015 email exchange which appears to show Epstein booking and paying for her first-class trip to Europe. Other e-mails show her asking Epstein to help her land a job with Facebook and giving him advice as to how to respond to the coverage that his crimes were receiving in media. She also conveyed to Epstein that she was romantically involved with a married associate of his.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn_Ruemmler

[unverified by me]


13 posted on 02/12/2026 8:22:02 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Morgana

He’s right. She is a Leftist tool for sure.


14 posted on 02/12/2026 8:22:05 PM PST by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est)
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To: rlmorel

Yep. She is one wicked POS


15 posted on 02/12/2026 8:55:22 PM PST by j.havenfarm (25 years on Free Republic, 12/10/25! More than 12,750 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Morgana

good. hopefully more like Herr Starmer soon to follow.


16 posted on 02/12/2026 9:06:31 PM PST by dadfly
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To: rlmorel

Bongino was useless in the FBI. I can’t even stand to look at that man anymore.


17 posted on 02/12/2026 9:21:03 PM PST by roving
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To: roving

That is your opinion, FRiend.


18 posted on 02/12/2026 9:37:56 PM PST by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est)
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To: Equine1952

Its where the whores toss their dirty underwear.


19 posted on 02/12/2026 9:54:00 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: rdcbn1

She had all these years to make a LOT of money. Shes going to be totally fine. She can do private consults no oje will know about.


20 posted on 02/12/2026 9:55:55 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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