Howard Lutnick testifies to House on Epstein links after file contradictions
Howard Lutnick will face questions over island visits and business ties as the committee reviews more than 3 million pages of Epstein records.
- On Wednesday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is appearing before the House Oversight Committee to answer questions regarding his past associations with Jeffrey Epstein.
- Although Lutnick previously claimed he severed ties with Epstein in 2005, released files reveal ongoing contact, including a 2012 visit to the financier's private Caribbean island with his family.
- Lutnick told senators in February he "barely had anything to do with that person," yet records show the two invested in Adfin as recently as 2014, with Epstein giving $50,000 to a 2017 dinner honoring Lutnick.
- Amid a monthslong procession of powerful figures summoned before the committee, many have faced embarrassing revelations in the more than 3 million pages of Epstein files, including former President Bill Clinton.
- President Donald Trump's administration faces continued scrutiny as the committee prepares to hear testimony from former Attorney General Pam Bondi on May 29.
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Trump Cabinet Member Howard Lutnick Confronted on 2012 Epstein Island Lunch and 2015 Fundraiser
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick faced pointed questions from the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday over his past dealings with Jeffrey Epstein, including a family lunch on the disgraced financier's private island in 2012 and an invitation extended to him for a 2015 fundraiser. The senior Trump cabinet member has long maintained he cut all ties with Epstein following an unsettling encounter at the latter's New York home in 2005. Yet jus…
Howard Lutnick grilled by lawmakers over Epstein ties
WASHINGTON — Howard Lutnick, President Donald Trump’s commerce secretary, was grilled by lawmakers for several hours Wednesday over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender, after documents released by the Justice Department revealed that Lutnick had misrepresented his relationship with Epstein. The post Howard Lutnick grilled by lawmakers over Epstein ties appeared first on West Hawaii Today.
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick testifies he can't recall why his family lunched on Epstein's island
Washington: US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told members of a congressional committee in private testimony on Wednesday that he couldn't recall why he and his family had lunch on Jeffrey Epstein's private island, members said.Lutnick, the former chief executive of Cantor Fitzgerald, had lunch with the convicted sex offender for two hours on the island in 2012, contradicting a past public statement about cutting ties with Epstein years earl…
The controversy over the ‘Epstein files’ has spread to key cabinet members of the Trump administration’s second term. On the 5th (local time), U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick admitted during a closed-door stenographic interview with the House Oversight and Reform Committee that this contradicts his previous explanation that he severed ties with Jeffrey Epstein in 2005. Epstein was an American billionaire financier who died while serving a…
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s testimony to Epstein probe ‘a farce’, say Democrats
Donald Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick evaded questions from members of Congress about his relationship to Jeffrey Epstein and refused to say whether he talked to the US president about his closed-door deposition, according to Democrats on a panel investigating the late paedophile.
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