Jeffrey Epstein and Harvard economist and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers used a shocking slur during a racist exchange about a younger Chinese female mentee, newly released emails show.

A cache of documents released by Republicans on the House Oversight Committee shows that Summers, 70—who served as Treasury secretary under Bill Clinton and later led Barack Obama’s National Economic Council—stayed friends with Epstein long after the disgraced financier’s 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor, and right up to his 2019 charge for child sex trafficking.

Many of the texts and emails, published Monday by The Harvard Crimson, show Summers turning to the billionaire sex offender for advice on pursuing a woman he worked with.

In correspondence between November 2018

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