Harvard's Larry Summers to Retire Amid Epstein Review

Harvard University announced on Wednesday that former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers will retire from his academic and faculty positions at the institution at the end of the current school year. The decision comes amid an ongoing campus review of Summers' connections to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, whose name has surfaced repeatedly in recently unsealed court documents.

Summers, a longtime Harvard professor, has been on leave since November. His name appears hundreds of times in the millions of pages of records released by the Justice Department related to Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted in 2021 on charges of sex trafficking. Harvard spokesperson Jason Newton confirmed the retirement in a statement, noting that Summers will remain on leave until the academic year concludes. "Professor Summers has announced that he will retire from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of this academic year," Newton said.

In his own statement, Summers described the choice as difficult and reflected on his five decades at the university. He expressed thanks to the students and colleagues he collaborated with during that time. "Free...