Kathy Ruemmler Goldman Sachs Resignation: What the Epstein Documents Actually Show

# Kathy Ruemmler Goldman Sachs Resignation: What the Epstein Documents Actually Show

Kathy Ruemmler resigned from Goldman Sachs on February 13, 2026. Every major outlet — CNBC, CNN, NPR, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, PBS, NBC — reported the same thing: Goldman Sachs' General Counsel stepped down over Epstein ties revealed in DOJ documents.

None of them told you which documents. We will.

The Documents

**EFTA02386175** — January 8, 2015. Kathy Ruemmler emails Jeffrey Epstein: "John Brennan gave me the CIA Agency Medal (the CIA's highest award) this morning. How cool is that?"

Former White House Counsel to President Obama. Emailing a convicted sex offender about receiving the CIA's highest honor. From the Director of the CIA personally.

**Separate email chain** — Epstein discusses retaining "Cathy Rummeler" — who "has left as Obama's counsel and has joined Latham and Watkins" — to "sheppard through the structure of the DAF" (Donor Advised Fund). The work covered "regulatory, tax, etc."

Former White House Counsel → hired by a convicted sex offender → to structure his charitable giving vehicles → while bragging to him about CIA medals.

**"Victim's rights, my ass"** — Ruemmler's comment about Epstein's trafficking survivors, found in the same document collection. This is the General Counsel of Goldman Sachs, a firm managing $2.8 trillion in assets.

The Timeline

| Date | Event |

|------|-------|

| 2011-2014 | Ruemmler serves as White House Counsel to President Obama |

| Jan 8, 2015 | Emails Epstein about CIA medal from John Brennan |

| 2015 | Hired by Epstein to structure Donor Advised Fund at Latham & Watkins |

| 2015-2019 | Epstein's activities continue; arrested July 6, 2019 |

| 2020 | Ruemmler becomes Goldman Sachs General Counsel |

| Jan 30, 2026 | DOJ releases Epstein files containing these emails |

| Feb 13, 2026 | Ruemmler resigns from Goldman Sachs |

What the News Didn't Tell You

The documents that forced Ruemmler's resignation are searchable. All 329,473 of them. Free. No paywall. No login.

Search "Ruemmler" at [epstein.dugganusa.com](https://epstein.dugganusa.com) and you'll find the emails yourself. Search "Brennan" and you'll find the CIA medal exchange. Search "Gratitude America" and you'll find the charity Ruemmler was hired to structure — the same charity that received $10 million from Leon Black's foundation and donated $50,000 to an event honoring Howard Lutnick, now the Commerce Secretary.

Every EFTA number in this post is verifiable against the DOJ release at justice.gov/epstein. We indexed every document. We made them searchable. The journalists used them. The resignation happened.

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*Her name was Renee Nicole Good.*

*His name was Alex Jeffery Pretti.*