Goldman CEO Asks Top Lawyer to Stay at Firm After Epstein Furor

>Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s chief executive officer has asked his top lawyer to stay at the firm, a surprising move after she resigned from her role earlier this year as scrutiny mounted over her interactions with Jeffrey Epstein. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-05/goldman-ceo-asks-top-lawyer-to-stay-at-firm-after-epstein-furor >In one December 2015 email exchange, Ruemmler wrote to a redacted recipient. "I adore him [Epstein]. It's like having another older brother!" >The notes suggest that, on the night he was taken into custody, Epstein called Ruemmler, whose mobile phone number is redacted in the documents. >Communications from March 2019, four months before Epstein's arrest, show Ruemmler advising him on how to push back against media scrutiny that his 2008 plea deal was too lenient. >"Far from [receiving] a sweetheart deal, Mr Epstein was subjected to a lengthy, aggressive, [and] highly unusual federal investigation for what were, in essence, local [offences] of sexual solicitation," Ruemmler wrote. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy57l501v2yo details to plea deal mentioned above >Epstein was charged with recruiting dozens of girls, some as young as 13, for massages and sex at his mansion in Palm Beach, Fla. Under a plea deal reached in 2007 with then-U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, Epstein was given immunity from federal prosecution and pleaded guilty to lesser state charges. https://www.npr.org/2019/06/25/735804464/jeffrey-epsteins-sex-offender-plea-deal-must-stand-federal-prosecutors-say