Goldman Sachs stands by top lawyer Kathy Ruemmler after her emails with Jeffrey Epstein exposed

Goldman Sachs connected Thursday powerfully backed its apical lawyer, Kathy Ruemmler, a time aft a congressional committee released her chummy emails with notorious enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein earlier she joined the concern bank.

Those emails diagnostic Ruemmler, who served arsenic White House counsel to erstwhile President Barack Obama, and Epstein exchanging thoughts astir President Donald Trump, erstwhile President Bill Clinton, Facebook laminitis Mark Zuckerberg, and overweight road remainder halt patrons.

"See you astatine 2, I ordered sushi for you," Epstein wrote Ruemmler successful March 2018 arsenic portion of an email thread that began with him sending her a Daily Beast nonfiction headlined, "How adjacent is Donald Trump to a psychiatric breakdown?"

Those emails came astir 17 months earlier Epstein's apprehension connected national kid enactment trafficking charges. He killed himself weeks aft that apprehension successful a Manhattan jail.

Ruemmler is Goldman's main ineligible serviceman and wide counsel.

Goldman Sachs spokesperson Tony Fratto, successful a connection to CNBC, said, "These emails were backstage correspondence good earlier Kathy Ruemmler joined Goldman Sachs."

"Kathy is an exceptional wide counsel and we payment from her judgement each day," Fratto said.

Ruemmler did not respond to requests for remark astir her emails with Epstein connected Thursday.

In 2023, Ruemmler told The Wall Street Journal, "I regret ever knowing Jeffrey Epstein."

Ruemmler, who served arsenic Obama's White House wide counsel and arsenic a national prosecutor, exchanged emails with Epstein portion she was a spouse with the instrumentality steadfast Latham & Watkins, wherever she was planetary seat of the white-collar defence and investigations practice.

The Journal successful 2023 reported that Ruemmler "had dozens of meetings with Epstein successful the years after her White House service and earlier she became a apical lawyer at Goldman Sachs ... successful 2020."

"He besides planned for her to articulation a 2015 travel to Paris and a 2017 sojourn to Epstein's backstage land successful the Caribbean," the Journal reported then. The newspaper, citing a Goldman Sachs spokesman, reported that Epstein introduced her to imaginable ineligible clients, including Bill Gates, the laminitis of Microsoft.

Goldman has antecedently said that Ruemmler had a nonrecreational narration with Epstein connected to her relation astatine Latham, but Latham besides has said helium was not a lawsuit of that firm.

Her missives with Epstein, which the House Oversight Committee released connected Wednesday, were exchanged years aft Epstein pleaded blameworthy successful 2008 successful a Florida authorities tribunal to prostitution charges involving an underage girl.

Epstein served 13 months successful jailhouse successful that lawsuit and had to registry arsenic a enactment offender.

"Trump is surviving impervious of the adage that it is amended to beryllium fortunate than smart," Ruemmler wrote Epstein connected Aug. 26, 2015, according to the email thread received by House Oversight from Epstein's property pursuant to a subpoena.

Epstein, who antecedently had been a long-time person of Trump's, replied, "ill springiness you details erstwhile I spot you. erstwhile are you successful ny?"

Ruemmler replied by saying she was going to New York 2 days later, and was considering driving there.

"I volition halt to pee and get state astatine a remainder halt connected the New Jersey turnpike, volition observe each of the radical determination who are astatine slightest 100 pounds overweight, volition person a mild panic onslaught arsenic a effect of the observation, and volition past determine that I americium not eating different wound of nutrient for the remainder of my beingness retired of fearfulness that I volition extremity up similar 1 of these people," Ruemmler wrote.

Months later, successful January 2016, Epstein emailed Ruemmler, saying, "I stopped talking to [Bill] Clinton erstwhile helium swore, with full hearted condemnation to me, that helium had done something. , helium had forgotten that helium besides swore the nonstop other to maine lone weeks before."

On July 14, 2016, Epstein writes Ruemmler: "pretty achromatic dress. you and ruth ginsburg."

Ruemmler replied little than 20 minutes later: "I similar that formal ... narciso Rodriguez. Where did you spot that picture? RBG [the precocious Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg] was my day to authorities dinner."

Epstein replied that the photograph was connected "every quality transmission today," due to the fact that Ginsburg had apologized for comments she made to The Times astir Trump, successful which she said, "I can't ideate what the state would beryllium — with Donald Trump arsenic our president" and that her precocious hubby would person said it was "time for america to determination to New Zealand."

"Yikes," Ruemmler wrote.

The pursuing day, Epstein wrote a azygous word, "today," to Ruemmler.

She replied, "that's a wide question," and helium changeable back, "I nary longer usage presumption similar 'broad,' " with a "frown" emoji pursuing that.

A twelvemonth later, erstwhile Ginsburg's fears had been realized and Trump had been elected president, Ruemmler, connected July 20, 2017, wrote, "Trump is genuinely stupid."

"Duh," Epstein replied the pursuing day.

Ruemmler earlier that aforesaid twelvemonth said successful an email to Epstein that Trump was "so gross."

Epstein replied, "Worse successful existent beingness and upclose."

In August 2018, Ruemmler emailed Epstein a nexus to a New York Times op-ed that said determination was a lawsuit to beryllium made for impeaching Trump, successful transportation with hush wealth payments others made to 2 women to support them quiescent astir their alleged intersexual trysts with him earlier the 2016 election. Trump denies having enactment with the women: porn prima Stormy Daniels and Playboy exemplary Karen McDougal.

Those payments were made and facilitated by Trump's then-personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, who agreed to cooperate with national prosecutors successful their probe of Trump.

"You see, one cognize however soiled donald is," Epstein wrote successful that thread. "my conjecture is that non-lawyers ny biz radical person nary idea. what it means to person your fixer flip."

In a thread earlier that year, Epstein appeared to person forwarded a connection from erstwhile Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon, who wrote, "do you deliberation Bill Clinton would similar to articulation you maine chud and steve? could beryllium precise funny, each disconnected the record."

Ruemmler replied, "While helium mightiness similar to, his lawyer would counsel him against it. :-)."

In the aforesaid thread, Ruemmler wrote, "Barf," aft Epstein said that an unnamed pistillate was saying that a antheral named Ben was "giving her a precise hard time" by asking her "to bash woman similar things."

In June 2018, Epstein, successful an email to Ruemmler, mentioned Facebook and its founder, Zuckerberg.

"I thought you mightiness similar to look astatine the caller net and privateness opinions and airs immoderate unfastened questions to beryllium discussed," Epstein wrote. "mark wants to bring the net to the remainder of the satellite ... and healthcare ... his woman is bully but boring .. what bash you spot arsenic the challenges .. what does she oregon helium see. social."

— CNBC's Ashlee Trujillo, Caleigh Keating and MC Wellons contributed to this story