Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers was banned for life from a prestigious academic society over revelations of his ties with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Summers was one of the biggest figures of the recent release of the Epstein files by Congress, a trove of documents highlighting Epstein’s high-level connections. The list of groups disassociating from former President Bill Clinton’s treasury secretary grew on Tuesday, when the American Economic Association, a nonprofit scholarly association dedicated to economic research, banned him for life in a scathing rebuttal.
“The AEA condemns Mr. Summers’ conduct, as reflected in publicly reported communications, as fundamentally inconsistent with its standards of professional integrity and with the trust placed in mentors within the economics profession,” the group said in a statement.
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