🧵 Jeffrey Epstein's relationship with Kathryn Ruemmler — the former top Obama White House lawyer, onetime Attorney General candidate, and potential Supreme Court nominee, who is now the top lawyer at Goldman Sachs — was far deeper than previously known, emails show. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Ruemmler confided in Epstein when a rival law firm tried to poach her, when looking for an NYC apartment, and when she was being vetted for consideration as US Attorney General. She also turned to him for minor issues, like what it's like to fly Emirates.
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We've known for years that Ruemmler met with Epstein in his Manhattan mansion shortly after she left the White House, and while she was a partner at the Big Law firm Latham & Watkins. But not much more than that.
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Ruemmler came on my radar again in September.
The Epstein estate produced a copy of his penultimate will.
It names Kathryn Ruemmler as a backup executor.
That was pretty weird. How close were they? Jeffrey Epstein trusted Kathryn Ruemmler to manage his $630 million estate?
The final version of Epstein's will, finalized while he was in jail on sex-trafficking charges, had Bill Gates associate Boris Nikolic listed as the backup executor.
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In any case, Epstein's longtime personal lawyer Darren Indyke and accountant Richard Kahn ended up as the executors.
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This all raised the question... did Jeffrey Epstein ever hire Kathryn Ruemmler as a personal lawyer?
Some of Ruemmler's emails released this week are for "privilege."
Weird!
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Moreover, Jeffrey Epstein looped Ruemmler into emails with people we already know were his lawyers, like Alan Dershowitz, Marty Weinberg, and Ken Starr.
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Latham & Watkins said Epstein was never a client of the firm. businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstei…
There's also a wild part where — before it was announced that Eric Holder was stepping down — Ruemmler was talking with Epstein about whether she should accept the job as US Attorney General in the Obama administration.
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And there are cryptic emails between Ruemmler and Jeffrey Epstein appearing to reference Elon Musk and "your boy."
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