Larry Summers to leave Harvard as Epstein correspondence fallout continues

BOSTON, United States (MNTV) – Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers will leave his teaching role at Harvard University at the end of the current academic year, the New York Times reported Wednesday, as scrutiny of his past association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein shows no sign of abating.

Summers has been under pressure since the House Oversight Committee released documents revealing an ongoing personal correspondence between him and Epstein.

No evidence of criminal activity has surfaced.

A spokesperson for Harvard confirmed to the Times that Summers, also a former president of the university, has been on leave since November and will not return to teaching.

Harvard did not respond to a Reuters request for comment.

The departure is the latest in a series of steps Summers has taken since the Epstein files began circulating.

Last year, he resigned from the board of OpenAI, stepped back from teaching commitments at Harvard, and went on leave from a directorship at a Harvard business and government school while the university conducted a review of individuals named in the Epstein documents.

In November, Summers said he was “deeply ashamed” of his actions and would step back from public commitments to “repair relationships with the people closest to me.”