Mass. Gov. Healey: Harvard’s Summers should be ‘ashamed’ of relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey said Wednesday that she supports Harvard University's decision to open an investigation into its former president, Larry Summers, after Congress released documents connecting Summers to high-profile sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
"I certainly support Harvard doing a full investigation," Healey, the former two-term state attorney general, told reporters after an event at the State House.
"Look, to me, as somebody who prosecuted human trafficking, who supported victims and survivors of sexual assault, this whole Epstein thing has really bothered me," she said. "I'm glad there was a vote [to release the files] ... Those women deserve justice and anybody who is implicated by any of this should be held accountable."
Summers served as the university's president from 2001 to 2006 and also served as treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton.
In 2020, Harvard released a report acknowledging that Summers' relationship with Epstein was previously known.
However, a series of emails released by Congress last week reveal Summers remained in contact with Epstein for years — a fact the New York Times says suggests "a far more intimate relationship than was previously known."
Asked whether that disclosure meant that Summers should not teach younger students, Healey said she believed that "anybody who has been associated with Jeffrey Epstein, [who] continued communication, even after everything came to light, and the nature of that communication, should be ashamed."
In a statement to The New York Times , a Harvard spokesperson said the Cambridge-based university is "conducting a review of information concerning individuals at Harvard included in the newly released Jeffrey Epstein documents to evaluate what actions may be warranted."
In a statement on Wednesday, Summers announced he was stepping down from the board of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, MassLive previously reported .
The announcement comes after Summers said Tuesday that he would step back from his public commitments, The Washington Post reported .
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