Former Harvard University president Larry Summers on Monday night said he would step back from public “commitments” amid growing outrage over his association with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. The statement came hours after Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren urged Harvard to break ties with Summers, who leads the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School.

Here’s what we know about their relationship.

Communication by email, phone calls and visits.

The U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee last week released over 20,000 documents from Epstein’s estate pursuant to a subpeona. They included the emails exchanged between Summers, also a former Obama economic adviser, and Epstein.

Summers corresponded by email with Epstein for year

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