One of Wall Street's most powerful lawyers is departing with a £19.2 million ($25 million) pay package after the Epstein files made her position at Goldman Sachs untenable.
Kathryn Ruemmler, who served as Barack Obama's longest-tenured White House Counsel before rising to become Goldman Sachs's chief legal officer, announced on 12 February 2026 that she would step down effective 30 June 2026, a decision she said came in the interests of the firm after the Justice Department released millions of pages of Epstein files exposing years of close personal contact between her and the convicted sex offender.
