Kathryn Ruemmler
 Kathryn Ruemmler    (lawyer) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Born | April 19, 1971 Richland, Washington State, U.S. | |||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Washington, Seattle, Georgetown University | |||||||||||||||
| Member of | Jeffrey Epstein/Other associates | |||||||||||||||
| Party | Democratic | |||||||||||||||
White House Counsel to President Barack Obama from 2011 until 2014. She had dozens of meetings with Jeffrey Epstein in the years after her White House job. Joined Goldman Sachs in 2020.
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Kathryn "Kathy" Ruemmler is an US attorney who was White House Counsel to President Barack Obama from 2011 until 2014. She had dozens of meetings with Jeffrey Epstein in the years after her White House job. She joined Goldman Sachs in 2020.
Education
Ruemmler received a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Washington, and earned her Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center. She also was Editor-in-Chief of the Georgetown Law Journal.[1]
Career
She worked as a federal prosecutor from 2001 to 2007, first as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia, and finishing as a deputy director of DOJ's Enron Task Force.[2]
Ruemmler was Principal Deputy White House Counsel and then White House Counsel to President Barack Obama from 2011 until 2014. After that, she became a partner at Latham and Watkins co-chairing its white-collar defense group, Ruemmler joined Goldman Sachs in 2020 as a Partner and Global Head of Regulatory Affairs. In 2021, she was promoted to Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel.[3]
Jefferey Epstein
Kathryn Ruemmler, a White House counsel under President Barack Obama, had dozens of meetings with Jefferey Epstein in the years after her White House service and before she became a top lawyer at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in 2020. He also planned for her to join a 2015 trip to Paris and a 2017 visit to Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean.[4]
In 2014, Epstein called Ruemmler within weeks of her leaving the Obama White House, to ask if she would be interested in representing Bill Gates and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Epstein planned a lunch in August 2014 at his townhouse, followed by a series of meetings to introduce her to a wider circle of his acquaintances.[4]
Ruemmler had a professional relationship with Epstein in connection with her role at law firm Latham & Watkins LLP and didn’t travel with him, a Goldman Sachs spokesman said. A spokeswoman for Latham & Watkins said Epstein wasn’t a client of the firm.[4]
Epstein's private calendar, written about by the WSJ, shows that Epstein appeared to know her well. He asked for avocado sushi rolls to be on hand when meeting with Ruemmler, according to the documents. He visited apartments she was considering buying. In October 2014, Epstein knew her travel plans and told an assistant to look into her flight. "See if there is a first class seat," he wrote, "if so upgrade her."[4]
References
- ↑ https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/06/02/president-obama-announces-new-white-house-counsel-kathryn-ruemmler
- ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/17/AR2006011701554.html
- ↑ https://www.goldmansachs.com/about-us/people-and-leadership/leadership/management-committee/kathryn-ruemmler.html
- ↑ a b c d https://archive.is/20230430120418/https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/jeffrey-epstein-calendar-cia-director-goldman-sachs-noam-chomsky-c9f6a3ff#selection-275.0-287.132
