Goldman Sachs’ Kathy Ruemmler accused of affair: emails

Goldman Sachs’ Kathy Ruemmler accused of affair: emails

Goldman Sachs General Counsel Kathy Ruemmler allegedly had an affair with Jeffrey Epstein’s private legal professional Reid Weingarten, according to the latest 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 same day by Gould to Ruemmler, who was Obama’s White House counsel, reads, “Reid has confessed his sec[r]ets and lies. He has told me that his relationship with you has induced him m[i]sery.

Reid Weingarten was Jeffrey Epstein’s main legal professional in 2019 after federal sex-trafficking costs had been introduced against the financier. Getty Images

“Stay away before you manage to destroy him completely. You have no di[g]nity or pride.” 

Sources with data of the relationship declare it started when each Ruemmler and Weingarten had 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 never responded. It’s unclear when the relationship 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, stories from as early as 2005 referred to them as a pair.

Gould labored at NBC for practically 4 many years as a journalist and was the first feminine govt producer  of a nightly primetime newscast. 

Weingarten, now a companion at Steptoe & Johnson, was Epstein’s main legal professional in 2019 after federal sex-trafficking costs had been introduced against the disgraced financier and continued to characterize Epstein’s pursuits following his dying that same 12 months. According to emails, the two had also communicated about authorized and private issues for practically a decade.

Kathy Ruemmler, who served in the Obama Administration, gushed over presents Epstein gave her in just lately launched information. 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 information.

The latest e mail dump suggests just how shut Ruemmler — who now serves as Goldman Sachs’ basic counsel — was to Epstein. 

The emails present Epstein supplied Ruemmler with lavish presents totaling over $20,000 — including a Hermès purse, spa therapies and Bergdorf Goodman reward playing cards — while she provided him casual recommendation on managing his sex-trafficking case fallout, including serving to draft public statements and advising on press inquiries associated to accuser Virginia Giuffre.

Ruemmler, who served as White House counsel under President Obama before coming into non-public apply 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 level 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 an in depth relationship with the disgraced financier.

Below is Gould’s full e mail to Ruemmler:

I definitely do hope that this time, yo[u] perceive the finality of your “relationship” with my husband. I hope now=yow will discover true happiness without having a relationship with another person[‘]s husband. I really hope you do. I’m not an individual who likes to see other pe[o]ple undergo, it doesn’t matter what hurts they might have induced. I’m not gleeful abo[u]t your loss. Reid says he always needed to just be pals with you, however I [th]ink he understands because of your (plural) habits and the injury you hav[e] each induced to our marriage and household, that can in all probability never be. l=hear from many people (who don’t know what’s gone on) that you and I’d b[e] nice pals. I want I might say I hope that occurs sometime, however I’m the=sort of girl who loves the sisterhood, not women who sleep with and fall i[n] love with another person’s husband or vital other, regardless of how willi[n]g the man is to have his ego stroked and regardless of how swept away you might be b[y] emotions of some sort of deformed mutation of love. I just don’t see that ok[i]nd of friendship between us in the playing cards. 

However as I told Reid befo[r]e he picked up the telephone to name 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 because of his mom’s pain and because h[e] sees the father determine he has admired his complete life as a weak man who has=lied and cheated to his mom)….if yow will discover 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 different from the one I’ve seen you in for years. Perhaps you aren’t a[w]are….Reid has told me about his habit to you before and has requested for=my assist to interrupt it. He lastly discovered the energy to do it because of the dep[t]hs of his distress and unwillingness to proceed by life as a dishonorabl[e] man. I hope yow will discover a equally true pal who can do the same=for you. I want you effectively, consider it or not. Had you not jumped off the pho[n]e as rapidly as you probably did (which I completely effectively perceive) he would have t[o]ld you this.

Reid and I’ve loads of work=to do together to fix the mess you two have induced, however our love may be very st[r]ong and we are going to get there. I truthfully don’t need to add to your hurts by ma[k]ing you assume you have got destroyed our marriage on top 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 must be laborious for you t[o] perceive how deep our relationship is since he has not acted that method in=his weak habits with you. In fact, I feel he felt he might act out with y[o]u, act as though his relationship with you was intense and real, exactly b[e]trigger he knew I’d be there for him. He is a superb man with nice weakne[s]ses. That doesn’t make him a monster and I don’t assume you might be both.

Best needs to your future,

Ch[e]ryl Gould

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