top Goldman Sachs lawyer Kathy Rumler Late on Thursday, she said she would leave the investment bank at the end of June, a move that follows the recent release of more documents detailing her intimate conversations with a notorious sexual predator. Jeffrey Epstein.

Goldman Sachs defended Rümmler months after the incident Ministry of Justice Emails between her and Epstein and others originally released documents relevant to his investigation.

“Since joining Goldman Sachs six years ago, I have been honored to help oversee the firm’s legal, reputational and regulatory affairs; strengthen our strong risk management processes; and ensure we uphold our core value of integrity in everything we do,” Rümmler said in a statement.

“My responsibility is to put Goldman Sachs’ interests first,” Rumler said.

“Earlier today, I regretfully informed (Goldman Sachs CEO) David Solomon of my intention to resign from my position as Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel of Goldman Sachs, effective June 30, 2026.”

“Throughout her tenure, Kathy has been an outstanding general counsel, and we appreciate her contributions and sound advice on a wide range of relevant legal matters for the company,” Solomon said in a statement.

“As one of the most accomplished professionals in her field, Kathy was also a mentor and friend to many of us, and she will be missed,” Solomon said. “I accept her resignation and respect her decision.”

She announced she was leaving Goldman Sachs for the first time report Days earlier, the Wall Street Journal reported that Rumler was one of three people Epstein called on July 6, 2019, after he was arrested by federal authorities at a New Jersey airport on child sex trafficking charges.

The Wall Street Journal report cited a set of handwritten notes from law enforcement regarding comments Epstein made in an FBI car after his arrest.

CNBC confirmed that the notes were among the documents released by the Justice Department in late January.

Rumler was a white-collar criminal defense attorney at Latham & Watkins when the call came in. She said she never represented Epstein, who died by suicide in a New York federal prison weeks after his arrest.

“The documents are consistent with what Ms. Rumler has said repeatedly: that she knew Epstein when she was a criminal defense attorney and had clients in common with him,” Jennifer Connelly, a spokesperson for Rumler, told The Wall Street Journal in an interview on Friday.

“She was being friendly to him under the circumstances. She had no idea he was engaging in any criminal conduct,” Connelly said.

Rümmler served as White House counsel to the former President barack obama.

Rümmler is Goldman Sachs’ chief legal officer and general counsel. She is also a key advisor to Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon.

She is the latest person to lose a prominent position over her previous ties to Epstein.

on Sunday, Morgan Sweeney Resigned as Chief of Staff British Prime Minister Keir Starmersaid he was responsible for advising Starmer on the appointment Peter Mandelson Served as British Ambassador to the United States. Starmer sacked Mandelson in September over revelations about his ties to Epstein.

last week, Brad KarpChairman of a large corporate law firm Paul WeissHe resigned from the position after the fallout from emails between him and Epstein. Karp remains with the company.

A spokesperson for Paul Weiss previously said in response to Epstein’s email, “Mr. Karp never witnessed or participated in any inappropriate behavior. Mr. Karp attended two group dinners in New York and had little social interaction via email, all of which he regrets. “

Karp said he would step down as chairman because of the news reports that distracted him.

In November, after congressional committees released emails between Rummler and Epstein, Goldman Sachs spokesman Tony Fratto told CNBC that “these emails were private correspondence long before Kathy Rummler joined Goldman Sachs.

“Kathy is an outstanding general counsel and we benefit from her judgment every day,” Fratto said at the time.

Rümmler previously told the Wall Street Journal that she regretted knowing Epstein.

Among a new batch of emails released by the U.S. Department of Justice in late January was one that Rümmler sent to Epstein in March 2019, four months before his arrest.

In that email, she offered advice on how to respond to criticism that he had received special treatment and light penalties because of his wealth and political connections in 2008, when he avoided federal prosecution by pleading guilty in a Florida court to one count of soliciting an underage girl for prostitution.

When Epstein sought Rummler’s advice, the Miami Herald published a series of articles criticizing federal prosecutors’ decision not to prosecute him in 2008. Epstein ultimately served only 13 months in a Florida prison, but was mostly allowed to go to the office during the day.

The subject line of the email, “from wapo,” suggested that Epstein contacted Rumler because of the Washington Post’s investigation into him.

“Something like this: ‘This criticism is misplaced and reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the facts of Mr. Epstein’s case and how local and federal authorities[prosecuted]it,” Rumler wrote in an email.

“Mr. Epstein did not (receive) a sweetheart deal at all, but was the subject of a lengthy, aggressive, (and) highly unusual federal investigation into what was essentially a local sex solicitation (crime),” Rumler wrote. “He accepted responsibility, served time in prison, and paid a substantial monetary settlement to his victims.”

Rümmler also suggested in parentheses: “Were it not for Mr. Epstein’s wealth, it is difficult to imagine that he would have been treated as aggressively by (federal) prosecutors, and he certainly would not have been treated with the (obscene) and malicious treatment by the media with which he continues to be treated more than a decade after the case was closed.”