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Goldman Sachs GS 0.07%increase; green up pointing triangle Chief Executive David Solomon for months staunchly defended his general counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler, in the midst of a storm over her ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
Separately, Brad Karp, chairman of law firm Paul Weiss, stepped down from his position Feb. 4, urged by his partners who said he couldn’t continue after other emails suggested he had been closer to Epstein than previously known.
Some Goldman board members viewed Karp’s situation as somewhat parallel to what the bank was facing with Ruemmler and wondered about the optics of her remaining at the firm, the people familiar with the matter said.
Ruemmler told Solomon she plans to resign later this year due to the distraction that media coverage of the Epstein files had caused.
He said no board members asked Solomon last week how the firm could keep Ruemmler in her position or expressed parallels to Karp.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.