Overview
- Larry Summers said he is deeply ashamed, accepted responsibility for keeping in touch with Jeffrey Epstein, and will continue teaching at Harvard while pausing public engagements.
- Emails published by the House Oversight and Reform Committee show Summers remained in contact with Epstein well after 2008, including a 2019 exchange discussing his interactions with a woman.
- The committee’s release, published last week, documented ongoing communications between Epstein and multiple influential figures long after his Florida conviction.
- Political repercussions are growing, with the House debating measures to compel the Justice Department to release Epstein’s full file and reports that President Donald Trump asked DOJ to review Bill Clinton’s ties.
- Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to sex offenses in Florida, was arrested on federal sex‑trafficking charges in 2019, and was found dead that year in a Manhattan jail in a death ruled a suicide.