Casey Wasserman will remain as chairman of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics organizing committee after the LA28 board's executive committee reviewed his communications with Jeffrey Epstein associates. The review followed the release of government files showing Wasserman exchanged flirtatious emails with Ghislaine Maxwell in 2003, years before her conviction for sex trafficking.

LA28 conducted an independent review with outside legal counsel, finding Wasserman's relationship with Epstein and Maxwell did not extend beyond previously documented interactions. The executive committee determined Wasserman should continue leading the Games, citing his decade of leadership and commitment to delivering a successful Olympics. His emails included suggestive comments about seeing Maxwell in a leather outfit and discussing massages.

Wasserman has faced mounting pressure since the files' release, with athletes like Abby Wambach leaving his sports marketing company and calls for his resignation from Los Angeles officials. The IOC declined to intervene last week. Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence after her 2021 conviction, while Epstein died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges.