Larry Summers Leaving Harvard as School Investigates His Ties to Epstein
Harvard opened an investigation into the ties between Summers and Epstein.
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers won’t teach at Harvard anymore!
After Summers resigned from the OpenAI board, I wondered if Harvard would keep him.
As we know, Summers said he felt “deeply ashamed” after emails showed he corresponded with Epstein for seven years after his conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor.
One email showed Summers asking Epstein for advice on how to start a relationship with a woman he described as a mentee.
Summers said he would step away from public commitments as he tries to regain the trust of family and friends, which includes leaving OpenAI.
Summers didn’t mention Harvard, where he held the title “University Professor.”
Well, Harvard announced it would investigate Summers’ ties to Epstein.
Summers decided to leave. From The Crimson:
“His co-teachers will complete the remaining three class sessions of the courses he has been teaching with them this semester, and he is not scheduled to teach next semester,” a spokesperson for Summers wrote in a Wednesday statement to The Crimson.
Summers will also immediately go on leave from his role as the director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. He has led the center, which focuses on studying policy issues in the public and private sector, since 2011.
“Mr. Summers has decided it’s in the best interest of the Center for him to go on leave from his role as Director as Harvard undertakes its review,” the spokesperson wrote in a Wednesday evening statement.
Harvard’s investigation will include anyone else associated with the school in the Epstein files.
Summers’ wife, Harvard English professor emerita Elisa F. New, also appeared in some emails:
In the documents, New discussed her personal projects at length with Epstein, soliciting thousands of dollars in funding from the child sex trafficker several times — years after Harvard said it had stopped taking contributions from Epstein.
In one 2014 exchange, New and Epstein discussed a potential $500,000 gift to Poetry in America, a television show and digital initiative she spearheaded. She also accepted an unspecified amount of money from Leon Black, an executive at private equity giant Apollo, in a gift that she wrote Epstein helped broker.
“It really means a lot to me, all financial help aside, Jeffrey, that you are rooting for me and thinking about me,” she wrote in December 2015.
These communications occurred after everyone knew Epstein was a pedophile. So gross.
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“Nobody is above the Epstein list!!”
The Dems look like the dog that caught up to the car it was chasing: “now what do I do?”
Pee on the tire?
Bark at the Tru
mpnk.If it’s a Tesla they will play that frunk-y music.
I hope all who associate with this scumbag get their just due.
Let me be the first to say it:
Larry Summers didn’t kill himself.
It is not against the law to communicate with someone who commits crimes – as long as we are not complicit in any of those crimes.
Apparently we are all supposed to shun those who commit crimes?
You can talk to ’em, flatter ’em, ask them to fund your TV shows with pimp money, ‘sall good.
Shame is an important social restraint on behavior acting as both a consequence and a deterrent in a functional society. You are obviously free to exercise your 1A right to associate with whomever you choose. Equally everyone else is free to use their 1A right to speak out about your choices and refuse to associate with you based on the company you choose to keep.
Consider the words of John Adams ‘Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other’. IOW without socially imposed restraints and consequences our system will fail b/c that’s the foundation upon which our system rests. We’re living in an era where much of shaming and shunning have been removed….to the point where a habitual offender who assaulted their social worker was granted bail and within a short time set an random woman on fire in Chicago.
Choices have consequences. Choose wisely or be prepared to suffer the negative effects, not just offer tepid, pro forma ‘mistakes were made’ style statements that seek to evade true accountability.
Well, the Communists asked for it and now they’re getting it. Hopefully they enjoy it as much as we do
I agree with you. It may be unbecoming for high profile individual to ask a former criminal for money, but in and of itself, it is not criminal. There is no reason that Harvard should have begun investigating Sommers. By contrast, it has dragged its feet investigating those who threatened Jewish students in what may have been criminal action. I suspect what has happened to Sommers may happen to other DemoncRats. But that’s Karma. and Karma is a bitch. DemoncRats should have been careful about what they wished for.
I agree with you. It may be unbecoming for high profile individual to ask a former criminal for money,
Epstein wasn’t a ‘former’ criminal.
Yes. He had been jail in Florida. I think that makes him a former criminal.
I’m deeply ashamed– deeply ashamed, you can believe me on this, I’m deeeeply ashamed, that I got caught. Other than that I’m arrogant as h377
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CZK4I_RfObY
Did anybody realize that Epstein was running the government ?
he can always say he was just helping her with her math homework
At the time Summers was getting dating advice from Epstein on getting busy with a Chinese lady tied to the highest levels of the Chinese government Epstein was not in jail. It’s distasteful but I don’t want to live in a world like that however Summers should have used more common sense than that as should have Plaskett, Jefferies, Clinton, Gates etc