Maybe before she quits she can explain why she – as Obama's top White House lawyer – had dozens of meetings with Epstein https://t.co/aNbcaX957M pic.twitter.com/9Xtut62EKH
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 20, 2026
A top lawyer at Goldman Sachs who worked for Barack Obama is facing mounting pressure after her close links to dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein emerged.
Kathryn Ruemmler, previously a White House counsel to Obama, met dozens of times with Epstein and was cited on hundreds of emails between him and his lawyers.
Ruemmler’s links to the convicted sex offender faced close scrutiny at the megabank after it was revealed that Epstein knew her sushi order of avocado rolls, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Epstein also visited apartments she was thinking about buying and asked his assistant to check if Ruemmler could get a first class upgrade, per the outlet.
Ruemmler, 54, was in the courtroom when Epstein was arraigned on sex trafficking charges in 2019.
The disgraced financier also listed the former Obama counsel as a backup executor of his will, which raised further questions inside Goldman Sachs.
She said that she regretted ‘ever knowing’ Epstein. During Ruemmler’s hiring, she disclosed her professional ties to Epstein. But the depths of their apparent friendship revealed by emails are said to have taken Goldman Sachs bosses by surprise. The Journal reported that a plan has been devised to get Ruemmler out of the company.
‘It was my job to engage with people and companies that had serious legal and public relations problems. Many were under criminal investigation, and many had been convicted of crimes,’ Ruemmler told the WSJ.