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The Quintessential Epstein Files Email by David Dayen [View all]
On June 5, 2015, Kathy Ruemmler, then a corporate lawyer for Latham & Watkins but just one year removed from her stint as White House counsel for Barack Obama, emailed her good friend Jeffrey Epstein. Ruemmler, who was once under consideration to become Obama’s attorney general, wrote, “I am working on a PR strategy for MJ White v. Elizabeth Warren.” Epstein responded, “Good[.] mj is good.” And Ruemmler followed on in a response, “Yes, and EW is the worst."
This is the perfect Jeffrey Epstein email, with as much explanatory power about this man, and more important the world he associated with and cultivated, than anything to do with child sex abuse. It shows that there is in fact an Epstein class, which not only believes in their own personal impunity, but seeks to protect their fellow travelers as well. And that ultimately lines up with a political and economic vision that favors corporate domination over the public interest.
But you have to unravel all the backstory to best understand it.
The date—June 5, 2015—is the first important bit. Three days earlier, Sen. Warren had sent MJ (Mary Jo) White, who was then chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, one of the most withering documents I have ever seen in politics. The 13-page letter details the utter failure of White to police financial markets at the SEC, noting the inability to finalize long-delayed regulations on the sector and continued leniency in the enforcement of the securities laws.
Warren was specific on the latter point. White had continued to allow corporate offenders to settle cases without admitting guilt, despite claiming in confirmation hearings that this practice would end. In 520 settlements to that point, the SEC only sought admissions of wrongdoing in 19 cases, and in 11 of those, the companies only had to stipulate to a broad series of facts rather than the legal violations themselves.
This is the perfect Jeffrey Epstein email, with as much explanatory power about this man, and more important the world he associated with and cultivated, than anything to do with child sex abuse. It shows that there is in fact an Epstein class, which not only believes in their own personal impunity, but seeks to protect their fellow travelers as well. And that ultimately lines up with a political and economic vision that favors corporate domination over the public interest.
But you have to unravel all the backstory to best understand it.
The date—June 5, 2015—is the first important bit. Three days earlier, Sen. Warren had sent MJ (Mary Jo) White, who was then chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, one of the most withering documents I have ever seen in politics. The 13-page letter details the utter failure of White to police financial markets at the SEC, noting the inability to finalize long-delayed regulations on the sector and continued leniency in the enforcement of the securities laws.
Warren was specific on the latter point. White had continued to allow corporate offenders to settle cases without admitting guilt, despite claiming in confirmation hearings that this practice would end. In 520 settlements to that point, the SEC only sought admissions of wrongdoing in 19 cases, and in 11 of those, the companies only had to stipulate to a broad series of facts rather than the legal violations themselves.
https://prospect.org/2026/02/17/epstein-files-email-kathy-ruemmler-elizabeth-warren-class-war/
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