US EditionLarry Summers going on leave at Harvard as university investigates ties to Jeffrey Epstein
Summers, a former Treasury secretary and Harvard president, stepped back amid a university probe after emails revealed years of correspondence with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
- On Wednesday, former Harvard University president Larry Summers took leave from teaching at Harvard University as the school investigates his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
- After lawmakers released more than 20,000 Epstein files, the House Oversight Committee published emails involving Larry Summers on Nov. 12 from Jeffrey Epstein's estate around 2019.
- Emails show Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein corresponded through July 5, 2019, and in one batch Summers sought Epstein's advice about an unnamed woman described as a mentee.
- He resigned from OpenAI's board and major outlets including Bloomberg and The New York Times ended affiliations with Summers, along with the Center for American Progress and the Budget Lab at Yale.
- On Nov. 17, Summers announced he would step back from public commitments; his co-teachers at Harvard will complete the remaining three class sessions, and he is not scheduled to teach next semester as Harvard reviews Epstein ties.
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Former U.S. finance minister Summers has been on leave from teaching at Harvard University, confirmed by an economist's spokesman. The triggers are recently published e-mails that show that he has had a friendly relationship with the convicted sex offender Epstein for years.
NEW: Prominent Democrat Steps Away From Harvard Gig Over Epstein Ties
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers announced Wednesday that he would be stepping away from his teaching role at Harvard University as administrators probe his links to notorious sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Summers had previously announced that he was taking a “step back” from public life over dozens of emails he exchanged with Epstein after his 2008 conviction. The university confirmed Wednesday that Summers would immediately step …
Is This Finally and Blessedly the End of the Larry Summers Era?
It seems Jeffrey Epstein’s tentacles reached much further than any of us could have imagined, with Larry Summers, one of the nation’s most prominent economists, being caught in the web. I have nothing to add to the specifics of his involvement with Epstein. It would have been better if his removal from public life had been caused by his more than three decades of wrongheaded policy advice. Larry Summers has been at the center of economic policy …
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