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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