In theory, Kathy Ruemmler, a White House counsel under President Barack Obama, “should have been the last person to fall for Mr. Epstein’s charms,” writes Ankush Khardori, who sat down with the lawyer for her first and only interviews since her inclusion in the Epstein files became public.
That she, of all people, looked past his 2008 conviction tells you everything you need to know about how unreliable and corroded the legal world has become.