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Kathy Ruemmler, the top lawyer at storied investment bank Goldman Sachs and former White House counsel to President Barack Obama, has resigned, after emails between her and Jeffrey Epstein showed a close relationship where she described him as an "older brother" and downplayed his sex crimes. Up until her resignation on Thursday, Ruemmler repeatedly tried to distance herself from the emails and other correspondence and had been defiant that she would not resign from Goldman's top legal post, which she had held since 2020. While Ruemmler has called Epstein a "monster" in recent statements, she had a much different relationship with Epstein before he was arrested a second time for sex crimes in 2019 and later killed himself in a Manhattan jail. Ruemmler called Epstein "Uncle Jeffrey" in emails and said she adored him. In a statement before her resignation, a Goldman Sachs spokesperson said Ruemmler "regrets ever knowing him". During her time in private practice after she left the Whi
Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Societe Generale, and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, among others, on Wednesday collectively bought a 1.92 per cent stake in Ather Energy from the National Investment And Infrastructure Fund for nearly Rs 521 crore through open market transactions. ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund (MF), Tata MF, Invesco MF, Motilal Oswal MF, Aditya Birla Sun Life MF, WhiteOak Capital MF and Tata AIG Life Insurance Company Ltd also bought shares of electric two-wheeler maker Ather Energy, as per the block deal data available on the BSE and NSE. These entities purchased a total of 73,33,219 shares on NSE and BSE, representing a combined 1.92 per cent stake in Bengaluru-based Ather Energy. The shares were acquired at an average price of Rs 710 apiece, taking the combined deal value to Rs 520.66 crore. Meanwhile, the National Investment And Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) through its affiliate National Investment and Infrastructure Fund-II offloaded the same number of shares at t