Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has stepped back from his public commitments over communications with Jeffrey Epstein.
Summers said he was ‘deeply ashamed’ of his actions after years of exchanges with the convicted paedophile were revealed last week.
Documents prove that the two men communicated for seven years, even after Epstein was convicted of sex crimes by a court in Florida in 2008.
And the files show that Summers asked Epstein for his advice over a potential affair in 2018 with a woman Summers described as a ‘mentee’.
Summers yesterday said he wanted ‘to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me’.
The 70-year-old ran President Bill Clinton’s Treasury department from 1999 to 2001 and was president of Harvard from 2001 to 2006. He is still a professor at the prestigious New England university but was last night facing calls to resign.
Stepping back: Former US treasury secretary Larry Summers said he was ‘deeply ashamed’ after years of exchanges with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein were revealed last week
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