Recently released emails between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein show that the former Harvard president sought money from the convicted sex offender for his wife's poetry foundation

Former Harvard president Larry Summers is under fire over his email correspondence with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with at least one US Senator calling for Harvard to cut ties with him and Summers himself pledging to step back from his public commitments in the wake of emails between the late financier and his associates recently released by Congress.