A prestigious group for economic scholars banned disgraced ex-Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers for life on Tuesday over his ties to the dead pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The American Economic Association said on Tuesday that it had accepted the 71-year-old’s resignation after Congress released emails that showed Summers remained friends with the sex offender after his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor — at one point even asking Epstein for dating advice.

The Nashville-based nonprofit said it had permanently revoked Summers’s membership, but added that it has also immediately blacklisted the former Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton from all of its work.

“In addition, effective immediately, the AEA has imposed a lifetime prohibition on Mr Summers’

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