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‘Beyond offensive’: Goldman Sachs employees shocked at memo from exec caught in Epstein scandal

November 19, 2025 | | Print Article

A top Goldman Sachs lawyer who’s been tied to deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is a bit out of touch, or so her colleagues have suggested.

Last week, Congress released thousands of Epstein emails, some of which depicted current Goldman Sachs general counsel and former Obama White House counsel Kathy Ruemmler chummily bantering with the now-deceased pedophile.

“Those emails feature Ruemmler … and Epstein exchanging thoughts about President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and overweight highway rest stop patrons,” according to CNBC.

The emails were reportedly sent 17 months before Epstein was last arrested, tossed into jail, and later committed suicide.

After Congress released the Epstein emails last week, incriminating Ruemmler, she sent out a company-wide memo that some of her colleagues found to be extraordinarily tone-deaf.

According to the New York Post, she wrote that “what and how you communicate reflects on you and the reputation of the firm” in a Tuesday memo reminding staffers to complete mandatory training, including one training module on “communications at Goldman Sachs.”

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Some of the said staffers were stunned.

“The fact they’d put her name on this after last week’s emails … it’s beyond offensive,” one of them told the Post.

The Post’s insider sources also confirmed that some staffers have quit in recent months over their perception that Goldman Sachs has been covering up the Epstein scandal.

Two years ago, in May of 2023, the Wall Street Journal reported on dozens of meetings between Epstein and Ruemmler, who, to her credit, was with a different company at the time.

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This past September, the Journal ran yet another shocking report about Epstein and Ruemmler, who by then was with Goldman Sachs.

“Goldman Sachs’s general counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler, was listed as a backup executor in a January 2019 version of Jeffrey Epstein’s will,” the report read.

To this day, Goldman Sachs continues to defend Ruemmler.

In a statement to the Post, Tony Fratto, Goldman’s Global Head of Communications, said,

“These were private emails when Kathy Ruemmler headed the white-collar defense practice at Latham & Watkins, well before she joined Goldman Sachs,” a spokesperson told the Post.

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“Kathy is an excellent general counsel who always serves the firm with integrity. We benefit from her guidance and judgment every day … there is no change in attrition in that office for any reason. As Kathy has repeatedly said, she regrets ever having met Jeffrey Epstein,” the spokesperson added.

The public appears to staunchly disagree:

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Plus, according to the Post, “[s]ome Goldman staffers were quick to note that others tied to Epstein have publicly had their hands slapped.”

Take Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black, who stepped down as CEO in disgrace four years ago after being outed over his own Epstein connection.

And then there’s former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who announced this week that he’s “stepping back from public commitments” after he, too, was exposed.

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