Ryan Lucas

It is not unusual for investigators to seek phone records, which include the number called and duration, but not the call's content, as part of a criminal probe.

Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington.

Kathy Rumler has resigned from Goldman Sachs effective June 30th.

The investment bank's CEO, David Solomon, says in a statement that Rumler will be missed.

Earlier in her career, Rumler served as a federal prosecutor and later as White House counsel to President Barack Obama.

Her resignation from Goldman Sachs comes after the Justice Department's latest release of the Epstein files revealed the extent of Rumler's relationship with Epstein years after he was convicted of sex crimes.

Emails show Rumler received lavish gifts from Epstein and referred to him as, quote, Uncle Jeffrey, end quote.

Earlier this month, another prominent attorney, Brad Karp, stepped down as chairman of the law firm Paul Weiss over his ties to Epstein.

Brian Lucas, NPR News, Washington.

The defendant, Nikhil Gupta, pleaded guilty to three charges.

Murder for hire, conspiracy to commit murder for hire, and money laundering.

He entered his plea in federal court in Manhattan.

An Indian government official also has been indicted in the case but is not in custody.

The target of the plot was Guptatwat Singh Panoon, a New York-based attorney and Sikh separatist who advocates for a Sikh homeland independent from India.

In a statement provided to NPR, Panoon says Gupta's guilty plea is confirmation that the Indian government orchestrated the murder-for-hire scheme on U.S.

soil.

He also accused India of trying to silence dissenting political opinion and called its efforts an act of terrorism.

The Indian government has denied involvement.

Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington.

This has been a political weakness for the Trump administration.