Epstein Emails: Kathy Ruemmler Thanked ‘Uncle Jeffrey’ for Presents

A brand new trove of emails launched Friday is shedding extra mild on the connection between Kathryn Ruemmler, who’s now Goldman Sachs’ high lawyer, and Jeffrey Epstein — who despatched her costly presents, together with an Hermès bag.

“So pretty and considerate! Thanks to Uncle Jeffrey!!!” Ruemmler wrote in 2018 after Epstein had one thing delivered to her New York condominium.

Ruemmler’s relationship with Epstein, a convicted intercourse offender, has been intently examined. A number of disclosures of once-private emails have proven the pair had a a lot deeper relationship than was beforehand publicly recognized.

Goldman spokesperson Tony Fratto mentioned in an announcement that it’s “well-known that Epstein usually supplied unsolicited favors and presents to his many enterprise contacts.”

“As Kathy has mentioned many occasions, she had an expert affiliation with Jeffrey Epstein when she was a lawyer in personal apply, heading the protection and investigations apply at a worldwide legislation agency,” the assertion mentioned. “She regrets ever understanding him.”

The most recent batch of emails reveals that Epstein repeatedly gave Ruemmler dear presents, and she or he appeared delighted with them.

“OH MY GOD!!! He’s in a lot =rouble!!!! I’m dying,” Epstein’s assistant Lesley Groff wrote in 2016, passing alongside Ruemmler’s response to getting the Hermès purse. “It’s so stunning.”

A receipt for the bag, a Jlypslere 31, confirmed it price $9,350. It wasn’t the one accent she acquired from him. In a 2015 alternate, Ruemmler mentioned she “completely love[d] the purse” Epstein despatched her for her forty fourth birthday.

“I joked with Jeffrey that I used to be fearful he was sending me a cane,” Ruemmler wrote in an e mail to a redacted recipient, who seems to be one other Epstein assistant.

In 2019, she wrote that her outfit that day was due to Epstein.

“Am completely tricked out by Uncle Jeffrey at the moment! Jeffrey boots, purse, and w=tch!” she wrote.

In a separate alternate in 2018, Ruemmler requested whether or not it was OK to request a higher-end, Hermès-branded Apple Watch.

“If really okay with him to do the Hermes, I might love the 40 mm, stainless Hermes with bleu indigo swift leather-based double tour,” Ruemmler wrote on the time. “I will put on that one each day, whereas the sportier ones I might possible solely put on on weekends or when exercising, and so on.”

On the time of the emails, Ruemmler was a high legal professional at Latham & Watkins. Epstein, who pleaded responsible in 2008 to soliciting prostitution from a minor, had re-established himself as a financier with ties to the wealthy and highly effective.

In 2019, Epstein was indicted on sweeping federal sex-trafficking expenses and killed himself in jail whereas awaiting trial. Ruemmler, who had served as White Home counsel from 2011 to 2014, joined Goldman Sachs in 2020.

Goldman Sachs, led by CEO David Solomon, has remained behind Ruemmler amid questions on her ties to Epstein.

“She’s a superb lawyer, and the group depends on her steering each single day,” Solomon informed CNBC in November.

On Friday, the Justice Division mentioned in a letter to Congress that it could launch 3 million new Epstein-related information. The division mentioned some 200,000 paperwork might be at the least partially withheld from the general public. The disclosures are required by the bipartisan Epstein Information Transparency Act, which handed Congress with extensive bipartisan help in November.