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Sex predator Jeffrey Epstein was involved in establishing the client relationship between Barack Obama White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler and JPMorgan Chase in February 2019, four months before he was arrested on federal child sex trafficking charges, a new court filing revealed.
Ruemmler, who is now general counsel for Goldman Sachs, was touted by Epstein's personal assistant to JPMorgan as a would-be customer, the filing shows.
The suggestion that JPMorgan take Ruemmler on as a client — which the bank warmly embraced — came almost six years after JPMorgan said it had effectively fired Epstein as a client after repeated red flags being raised about him for years internally at the bank.
And it came five months before Epstein killed himself in August 2019 in a Manhattan federal jail, where he was being held without bail pending trial.
Sex predator Jeffrey Epstein was involved in establishing a client relationship between Obama White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler and JPMorgan Chase in February 2019, four months before he was arrested on federal child sex trafficking charges, a bombshell court filing revealed Tuesday.
The bank last month agreed to settle a similar lawsuit in the same court by an Epstein accuser, paying $290 million to her and other Epstein victims.
The filing says that JPMorgan admits "Epstein was involved in the establishment of a customer relationship with Kathryn Ruemmler," who was the longest-serving White House general counsel under former President Barack Obama
The filing says that in February 2019 Epstein's assistant, Leslie Groff, offered to introduce Mary Erdoes, a top JPMorgan executive, to Ruemmler, because she wanted to open an account with JPMorgan and Epstein thought the two of them "would bond." "Erdoes escalated the referral to Stacey Friedman, JPMorgan's General Counsel, who responded 'she is a rock star litigator at Latham. . . . I would think she would be a great client,'" the Virgin Islands said in its filing.
Ruemmler at the time worked at the law firm Latham & Watkins.
In 2020 she joined Goldman Sachs as a partner, and now is Goldman's chief legal officer and general counsel.