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Goldman Sachs just let their chief legal counsel resign in five months. She called Jeffrey Epstein "Uncle Jeffrey."

Kathy Ruemmler was the White House Counsel under Obama. She was the Deputy Attorney General who prosecuted Enron executives for lying. She famously said of them: "They could have chosen to tell the truth. They chose to lie."

And then she spent years lying about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Over 10,000 emails just dropped. Not a "loose professional relationship" like she claimed. He bought her shoes. A Hermès bag. They signed emails "XOXO." He counseled her on her love life, her career decisions, whether to give up her $10,000-a-month New York apartment to become Attorney General.

Goldman Sachs stood by her. Until yesterday. When she "resigned."

But here's the thing: She doesn't leave until June 30th. Five more months. Five more months of her salary. Five more months representing Goldman Sachs. And CEO David Solomon said he "reluctantly accepted" her resignation, calling her a "mentor" whose departure is "such a huge loss."

We've spent years watching powerful institutions protect powerful people while the rest of us beg for basic accountability. And this moment feels different. Not because it's worse than what came before. But because they're not even pretending anymore.

They're looking at us and saying: "We know. We don't care. What are you going to do about it?"

In this episode, we break down:

The Goldman Sachs debacle:

• Why a Fortune 500 company is defending someone with 10,000 emails to a child trafficker
• What it means when a board of directors (including the former Starbucks CEO) unanimously backs this decision
• Why "she resigned" is the corporate crisis playbook when accountability would cost too much

The scope we're just discovering:

• Ohio Senator John Husted took over $100,000 from Epstein co-conspirator Les Wexner months before voting to block the Epstein files
• Columbia University gave Epstein's girlfriend a spot in their dental school (impossible to get into for anyone else)
• The former Norwegian head of state is facing criminal charges while American institutions circle the wagons

The Doug Band revelation:

• Who was sharing a Blackberry with President Clinton in the early 2000s
• What 10,000+ emails actually reveal when you read them carefully
• Why powerful people believed the truth would never come out

Why this is a watershed moment:

• Europe is prosecuting. America is protecting.
• The corporatocracy isn't hiding anymore. They're standing there telling us no.
• What happens when every institution we're supposed to trust is compromised

This isn't partisan. It's Trump. It's Clinton. It's Goldman Sachs and Harvard and Dartmouth and the Olympic Committee. It's Casey Wasserman still running LA's Olympic bid despite documented ties to Epstein. It's Les Wexner's name still on Ohio State buildings.

We are going to keep covering this until the victims get justice. Not because we think the DOJ will deliver it. But because the rule of law only exists to the extent we enforce it. And right now, enforcement means removing people who abuse power from positions of power.

The wave is starting to grow. A bipartisan coalition (Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie) is refusing to let this go. They're willing to lose their seats over it. That's what it takes.

So no, we're not "over this." People are just beginning to understand the scope. And we're not stopping until there's accountability.