The economist and former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers was one of many high-status figures hitting up sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for advice, as revealed in a dump of Epstein's emails last week by the House Oversight Committee. That correspondence has finally caught up to Summers, who has spent this week stepping down from his numerous posts in academia and industry. According to Harvard University's student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson, emails show that Summers sought Epstein's counsel while pursuing a relationship with a woman for whom Summers was an "economics mentor." In their correspondence on this topic, which dates from November 2018 to July 2019, Epstein describes himself as a "wing man." The two banter about the probability that Summers will have sex with the woman, Chinese economist Keyu Jin, and referred to her with a racist pseudonym. From the Crimson:

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