{"id":7769,"date":"2026-07-29T21:36:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=7769"},"modified":"2026-07-29T21:36:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:36:51","slug":"kathy-ruemmler-said-epstein-accusers-assertions-lacked-inherent-credibility-under-questioning-about-her-own-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=7769","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Ruemmler said Epstein accuser\u2019s assertions \u2018lacked inherent credibility\u2019 under questioning about her own ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>\n            Kathy Ruemmler, the former Obama White House Counsel, told a House panel that she believed the descriptions of abuse by one of Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s most prominent victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre \u201clacked inherent credibility,\u201d as she was grilled by investigators about her own ties to Epstein, a transcript shows.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=7767\">Trump targets Dulles Airport for next DC-area construction venture<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            The House Oversight Committee released a transcript of its closed-door interview with Ruemmler about her ties to Epstein on Wednesday. Ruemmler, who most recently was working in a top legal position for Goldman Sachs, said she now regretted interacting with the late sex offender and believed it to be a mistake.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But when asked specifically whether she believed Giuffre, a prominent Epstein accuser who died by suicide, was a victim of Epstein and Maxwell, Ruemmler answered, \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            She elaborated: \u201cIf she says that she was, I don\u2019t have a reason to doubt that. However, there were allegations that she made that were, I believed based on my experience as a former prosecutor and as a defense counsel, that were of such a nature that they were \u2011\u2011 they lacked inherent credibility.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            In 2019, Giuffre publicly alleged Epstein trafficked her and forced her to have sex with his friends, including Prince Andrew, now Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, when she was 17 years old. The former prince has repeatedly denied the allegations.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cTypically, when someone says, \u2018I was sex trafficked to someone,\u2019 they say who, when, where, not multiple world leaders, multiple foreign presidents,\u201d said Ruemmler. She added that since she didn\u2019t investigate the case, she would have asked the chief investigator about what evidence they uncovered or whether they interviewed Giuffre.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=7757\">This week will feature multiple meteor showers. Here\u2019s how to watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            CNN has reached out to Ruemmler and Giuffre\u2019s family for comment. Ruemmler announced in February she would resign as the chief legal officer from Goldman Sachs after stories published detailing her ties to Epstein were published, including from CNN\u2019s KFile. She was supposed to leave the firm by the end of June, but Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon asked her to stay on as an adviser until her successor was named.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Ruemmler was also asked by investigators about an email from September 2015 in which she , \u201cI want to think about whether there are any counterclaims that could be brought against VR,\u201d with VR referring to Virginia Roberts Giuffre.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            At the time, Giuffre had sued Ghislaine Maxwell for defamation for saying that her abuse allegations against Maxwell and Epstein were \u201cobvious lies.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            When pressed if she wanted to bring any counterclaims against Giuffre, Ruemmler said she had no memory of the email but that she was \u201csort of in a generic way trying to show that I\u2019m being somewhat responsive when [Epstein\u2019s ] asking my views. And, again, that was a common way that I would respond to him.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=7751\">I wanted to get serious about cycling. These beginner essentials helped me do it<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cI didn\u2019t have any direct involvement in any of this,\u201d Ruemmler added.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n<em>This is a developing story and will be updated. <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>CNN\u2019s MJ Lee contributed to this report. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathy Ruemmler, the former Obama White House Counsel, told a House panel that she believed the descriptions of abuse by one of Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s most prominent victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre \u201clacked inherent credibility,\u201d as she was grilled by investigators about her own ties to Epstein, a transcript shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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