Goldmans Former Top Lawyer Calls Epstein a Masterful Liar

Goldman Sachs’s former top lawyer told a House committee on Wednesday that during the six years she knew the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein she never saw “any evidence suggesting that he was abusing women or girls,” but that she had come to realize he “was a masterful liar.”Kathryn Ruemmler, who resigned as Goldman’s general counsel and chief legal officer this year after details of her relationship with the sex offender came to light, acknowledged in her testimony that she had offered Mr.Epstein advice, accepted gifts from him and “sometimes irreverently” exchanged emails with him.“I can see now that he used me and other respectable people to legitimize his standing, and I know now that he often exaggerated his relationship with me to others,” Ms.

Ruemmler, 55, said in her opening statement at a closed-door hearing with the House Oversight Committee.A copy of the statement was obtained by The New York Times.Ms.

Ruemmler is among the most high-profile people on Wall Street whose careers have been hurt by their associations with Mr.Epstein.

In February, Ms.Ruemmler resigned from her job at Goldman, where she was paid $25 million a year, after a flood of emails released by the Justice Department revealed that her dealings with Mr.

Epstein had been far more extensive and personal than previously known.The emails showed that she had socialized and joked with him, and had even called him “sweetie” at times.They also revealed that Ms.

Ruemmler had offered him advice on handling the past allegations of soliciting sex from a minor that led to his 2008 guilty plea in Florida and a federal nonprosecution agreement.In her testimony on Wednesday, she said her relationship with Mr.Epstein began in summer 2014 when she had just left as White House counsel during the Obama administration to become one of the leaders of the white-collar defense team at Latham & Watkins.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScri...