Larry Summers banned for life from academic society over Epstein ties

Published December 2, 2025 9:11pm ET



Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers was banned for life from a prestigious academic society over revelations of his ties with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Summers was one of the biggest figures of the recent release of the Epstein files by Congress, a trove of documents highlighting Epstein’s high-level connections. The list of groups disassociating from former President Bill Clinton’s treasury secretary grew on Tuesday, when the American Economic Association, a nonprofit scholarly association dedicated to economic research, banned him for life in a scathing rebuttal.

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