Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers will resign from Harvard University at the end of the academic year after scrutiny over his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the university said on Wednesday.
Summers has been on leave from his teaching posts at Harvard since November, when the House Oversight Committee released hundreds of email exchanges between Epstein and the former Harvard president. The Harvard Crimson first reported the news of his resignation, confirmed by multiple outlets.
“You’re welcome,” Rep. Thomas Massie, who led the charge to release the files, wrote on X in response to the news of Summers’ resignation. “It’s not a hoax.”