Kathryn Ruemmler, former White House counsel under President Barack Obama, has announced she will resign from her role as general counsel at Goldman Sachs, following scrutiny over her past ties to financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Ruemmler is set to leave the firm on June 30. In a statement to The Financial Times, she said, “I made the determination that the media attention on me, relating to my prior work as a defense attorney, was becoming a distraction.”

Ruemmler joined Goldman Sachs after a distinguished legal career, which included serving as White House counsel, and quickly rose to become a key adviser to CEO David Solomon, according to the Wall Street Journal.

While executives at Goldman Sachs previously maintained that Ruemmler’s interactions with Epstein were strictly professional, recently released Justice Department emails show correspondence between Ruemmler and Epstein dating back to 2014. The emails include personal messages and references to high-profile meetings with figures such as Peter Thiel, Larry Summers, and former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Ruemmler has emphasized that she never represented Epstein or advocated on his behalf and expressed regret over having known him. “I have an enormous amount of sympathy and heartache for anyone he hurt,” she told the Financial Times.

The emails reveal Ruemmler thanking Epstein for gifts and referring to him in positive terms as late as 2015, six years after Epstein served time for sex offenses. She was also present in court during Epstein’s 2019 arraignment on sex trafficking charges and was named as a backup executor in his will.

Ruemmler’s resignation marks the latest development in ongoing scrutiny of Epstein’s network and its connections to prominent figures in finance and politics.