EPSTEIN FALLOUT PRESSURES US DEMOCRATS! – Document releases intensify scrutiny as Summers steps back following email revelations.
Former U.S. Democratic Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has resigned from the OpenAI board, he said, several days after Congress released documents that showed Summers shared a close relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Summers, also a former president of Harvard University, said on Monday he would step back from all public commitments, adding that the move was to allow him “to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me.”
Summers has been under fire after the U.S. House Oversight Committee released documents detailing an ongoing correspondence between Summers and Epstein. Harvard University, where Summers is still a professor, will open a new probe into Summers’ connections with Epstein, the university’s newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Summers, a Democrat, served as former President Bill Clinton’s Treasury Secretary and former President Barack Obama’s National Economic Council director. He has served on the OpenAI board since late 2023, following the brief ouster of the ChatGPT maker’s CEO, Sam Altman.
Other prominent companies with ties to Summers include education-technology firm Skillsoft, where he has been a board member since 2021, and Santander, where he chairs the bank’s international advisory board.
Both the US Parties are now bracing themselves for further developments as more Epstein-related documents are expected to be made public.
