Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers announced he is resigning from his professorship at Harvard University, according to reports, the latest high-profile individual to lose his job in connection with his association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Summers announced in a statement that he will resign from teaching at the end of the academic year, CNN, CNBC News and The New York Times reported.
"I will always be grateful to the thousands of students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach and work with since coming to Harvard as a graduate student 50 years ago," Summers said.
"Free of formal responsibility, as president emeritus and a retired professor, I look forward in time to engaging in research, analysis and commentary on a range of global economic issues."
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