Goldman’s Top Lawyer to Testify on Epstein Ties in Congress (1)

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. General Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler said she will testify in Congress about her interactions with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, just weeks after the investment bank announced her plans to leave.

The top Wall Street lawyer, who previously worked in the Obama White House, “welcomes” the chance to speak in front of the House Oversight Committee about her ties to Epstein, a spokesperson said, after an invitation from Republican lawmaker James Comer, the committee’s chair.

“At the time she interacted with Jeffrey Epstein, she was a practicing criminal defense attorney and shared a client with him,” Jennifer Connelly, the spokesperson for Ruemmler, said in an emailed statement. “She has done nothing wrong and had no knowledge of any ongoing criminal activity on his part.”

Comer invited her to testify on April 21, according to a copy of his letter reviewed by Bloomberg.

Extensive correspondence between Epstein and Ruemmler, who is set to leave Goldman on June 30, was revealed in files released this year by the Department of Justice. Thousands of documents mention Ruemmler, showing she accepted tens of thousands of dollars of gifts from Epstein and provided advice on legal matters and media inquiries as he sought to protect his reputation in the years before he died.

Goldman Chief Executive Officer David Solomon has steadfastly defended the firm’s top lawyer, calling her a “tremendous human being” the day after announcing her planned departure. As she appeared in rounds of document disclosures, his continued defense triggered unease among some within the bank, Bloomberg has reported.

Ruemmler, whose duties included safeguarding Goldman’s reputation, decided in mid-February to leave as scrutiny mounted in Washington. By late February, Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote to regulators pushing them to investigate banking executives connected to Epstein and asked whether Goldman notified them of Ruemmler’s ties to the pedophile before she joined the firm.

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Comer’s counterpart, Robert Garcia, the leading Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, has already called for Ruemmler to testify. He wrote in a post on X last month that she “should answer committee questions.”

The Wall Street Journal reported Comer’s invitation earlier on Tuesday.

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Jamie Tarabay in Washington at jtarabay2@bloomberg.net

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David Scheer, Peter Eichenbaum

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