> Larry Summers was handed a lifetime ban by the American Economic Association after details of the former Harvard president and United States Treasury Secretary’s connection to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein surfaced last month.

> “The AEA condemns Mr. Summers’ conduct, as reflected in publicly reported communications, as fundamentally inconsistent with its standards of professional integrity and with the trust placed in mentors within the economics profession,” the association said in a statement Tuesday.

> Summers for years communicated with Epstein on topics from relationships to President Donald Trump, according to emails released by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The documents revealed exchanges with a series of high-profile figures, including other academics, former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and Peter Mandelson, who was fired this year from his post as the UK ambassador to the U.S. Epstein died in prison in 2019 after being arrested on charges of sex trafficking minors. His death was ruled a suicide.

> Summers became a tenured professor at Harvard at 28 and won the John Bates Clark Medal given to outstanding American economist under age 40 by the AEA. He resigned as president of Harvard in 2006 after clashing with faculty, including after commenting that innate differences in sex kept women from flourishing in math and science careers.

This isolates Summers from a ton of shit and is bigger than when he recently got suspended from teaching at Harvard.

Larry Summers barred for life from American Economic Association