Larry Summers Will Resign From Harvard After Jeffrey Epstein Revelations
The New York Times • • general
Key Points:
- Lawrence H. Summers, former Harvard president and economist, will resign from teaching at the end of the academic year and has stepped down as co-director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.
- His resignation follows the release of Department of Justice documents revealing a close relationship between Summers and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, even after Epstein's conviction for prostitution involving a minor.
- Summers has been on leave since November and will not return to teaching before his departure; he described his decision to retire as difficult but expressed gratitude for his decades at Harvard.
- The revelations about Summers's continued personal ties to Epstein emerged from emails released by a congressional committee, intensifying scrutiny of his association with the disgraced financier.
