Goldman Sachs’ Kathy Ruemmler accused of affair: – Business News
Goldman Sachs General Counsel Kathy Ruemmler allegedly had an affair with Jeffrey Epstein’s personal legal professional Reid Weingarten, based on the newest tranche of paperwork launched by the Department of Justice.
In an e-mail from June 15, 2015, Weingarten’s spouse Cheryl Gould writes to Ruemmler: “I hope now=you can find true happiness without having a relationship with someone else’s husband… i’m the=kind of woman who loves the sisterhood, not women who sleep with and fall i[n] love with someone else’s husband…”
Another e-mail, despatched the identical day by Gould to Ruemmler, who was Obama’s White House counsel, reads, “Reid has confessed his sec[r]ets and lies. He has informed me that his relationship with you has induced him m[i]sery.
Reid Weingarten was Jeffrey Epstein’s major legal professional in 2019 after federal sex-trafficking fees have been introduced in opposition to the financier. Getty Images
“Stay away before you manage to destroy him completely. You have no di[g]nity or pride.”
Sources with information of the connection declare it started when each Ruemmler and Weingarten have been single and that Weingarten confessed his emotions for Ruemmler to his spouse after they married. These sources add that Ruemmler was blindsided by the emails and by no means responded. It’s unclear when the connection between Ruemmler and Weingarten ended.
The Post has reached out to Weingarten, Gould and Ruemmler for remark.
While it’s unclear when Weingarten and Gould married, studies from as early as 2005 referred to them as a couple.
Gould labored at NBC for almost 4 a long time as a journalist and was the first feminine government producer of a nightly primetime newscast.
Weingarten, now a associate at Steptoe & Johnson, was Epstein’s major legal professional in 2019 after federal sex-trafficking fees have been introduced in opposition to the disgraced financier and continued to symbolize Epstein’s pursuits following his death that very same 12 months. According to emails, the two had additionally communicated about legal and personal issues for almost a decade.
Kathy Ruemmler, who served within the Obama Administration, gushed over presents Epstein gave her in lately launched recordsdata. AP
On Jan. 30, the DOJ launched more than 3 million extra pages of Epstein’s paperwork as half of its release of the Epstein recordsdata.
The newest e-mail dump suggests simply how close Ruemmler — who now serves as Goldman Sachs’ normal counsel — was to Epstein.
The emails show Epstein supplied Ruemmler with lavish presents totaling over $20,000 — together with a Hermès purse, spa therapies and Bergdorf Goodman reward playing cards — whereas she provided him casual advice on managing his sex-trafficking case fallout, together with serving to draft public statements and advising on press inquiries associated to accuser Virginia Giuffre.
Ruemmler, who served as White House counsel beneath President Obama earlier than coming into non-public observe at Latham & Watkins, referred to Epstein as “Uncle Jeffrey” in a number of emails and wrote that she “adored” him, assembly him dozens of instances at his Manhattan townhouse and probably becoming a member of him on worldwide journeys.
While her ties to Epstein have been public for years, these new emails reveal each a stage of intimacy with Epstein in addition to the affair allegations.
The Post beforehand reported that Ruemmler, a former Obama White House counsel who referred to herself as Epstein’s lawyer in a single e-mail, maintained a close relationship with the disgraced financier.
Below is Gould’s full e-mail to Ruemmler:
I actually do hope that this time, yo[u] perceive the finality of your “relationship” with my husband. I hope now=you’ll find true happiness with out having a relationship with another person[‘]s husband. I really hope you do. I’m not a one that likes to see different pe[o]ple endure, no matter what hurts they might have induced. I’m not gleeful abo[u]t your loss. Reid says he at all times needed to only be mates with you, however I [th]ink he understands as a result of of your (plural) habits and the injury you hav[e] each induced to our marriage and household, that may in all probability by no means be. l=hear from many people (who don’t know what’s gone on) that you simply and I’d b[e] great mates. I want I might say I hope that occurs sometime, however I’m the=form of lady who loves the sisterhood, not ladies who sleep with and fall i[n] love with another person’s husband or important different, no matter how willi[n]g the person is to have his ego stroked and no matter how swept away you might be b[y] emotions of some form of deformed mutation of love. I simply don’t see that ok[i]nd of friendship between us within the playing cards.
However as I informed Reid befo[r]e he picked up the telephone to call you, if he might urge you to suck up your h[u]rt emotions and ship me a honest apology for taking part in an arrangeme[n]t that induced injury to Reid, to your self, to me, and to our [son] (who h[a]s been preventing tears all weekend as a result of of his mom’s ache and since h[e] sees the daddy determine he has admired his complete life as a weak man who has=lied and cheated to his mom)….if you’ll find it in your coronary heart to ask f[o]r my forgiveness, I’d need very a lot to forgive you and see you in a li[g]ht completely different from the one I’ve seen you in for years. Perhaps you aren’t a[w]are….Reid has informed me about his dependancy to you earlier than and has requested for=my help to interrupt it. He lastly discovered the ability to do it as a result of of the dep[t]hs of his distress and unwillingness to proceed by means of life as a dishonorabl[e] man. I hope you’ll find a equally true buddy who can do the identical=for you. I want you properly, imagine it or not. Had you not jumped off the pho[n]e as rapidly as you probably did (which I completely properly perceive) he would have t[o]ld you this.
Reid and I’ve a lot of work=to do collectively to repair the mess you two have induced, however our love could be very st[r]ong and we are going to get there. I truthfully don’t wish to add to your hurts by ma[k]ing you suppose you have got destroyed our marriage on high of all the pieces else. I c[a]n’t think about you’ll have rejoiced had that been the case. You haven’t des[t]royed our bond so no worries on that entrance. It have to be arduous for you t[o] perceive how deep our relationship is since he has not acted that means in=his weak habits with you. In truth, I believe he felt he might act out with y[o]u, act as if his relationship with you was intense and actual, exactly b[e]trigger he knew I’d be there for him. He is a great man with great weakne[s]ses. That doesn’t make him a monster and I don’t suppose you might be both.
Best needs on your future,
Ch[e]ryl Gould
