Ex-Treasury Secretary and Harvard professor Larry Summers announced plans Monday to step back from public commitments amid fallout from the release of emails between him and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The former Clinton and Obama administration official had exchanged emails with the disgraced financier well after his 2008 guilty plea in Florida for sex crimes – and up until Epstein’s July 2019 arrest on federal child sex trafficking charges, a trove of documents released by Republicans on the House Oversight Committee revealed last week.
“I am deeply ashamed of my actions and recognize the pain they have caused,” Summers said in a statement, obtained by multiple outlets.
“I take full responsibility for my misguided decision to continue communicating with Mr. Epstein,” he added.
Summers explained that stepping away is “one part of my broader effort to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me.”
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