Epstein's longtime lawyer to testify to House committee today

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A lawyer who worked closely with Jeffrey Epstein for decades earlier becoming an executor of his property volition beryllium questioned Thursday by the House Oversight Committee.

Darren Indyke was possibly Epstein's closest subordinate dating backmost to the 1980s. He was progressive successful assembling Epstein's analyzable web of businesses, properties and ineligible teams for a voluminous tangle of civilian and transgression matters.

Indyke is the 2nd of 2 executors of Epstein's property to attest earlier the committee down closed doors. The other, accountant Richard Kahn, testified connected March 11 that helium "was not alert of the quality oregon grade of Epstein's maltreatment of truthful galore women until aft Epstein's death."

Indyke and Kahn look connected paperwork for dozens of interconnected companies that facilitated payments to survivors of Epstein's abuse, whose attorneys person said the brace were cardinal figures successful the absorption of those firms. Indyke and Kahn precocious settled a suit accusing them of facilitating sham marriages successful which foreign-born victims joined Americans whom Epstein abused, for migration purposes.

Millions of documents successful the Justice Department's Epstein files amusement a blase web of businesses tied to Epstein.

An lawyer for Indyke, Daniel Weiner, said successful a connection to CBS News successful January that allegations that Indyke and Kahn were complicit successful Epstein's crimes are "false."

"It is worthy emphasizing that not a azygous pistillate has ever accused either Mr. Indyke oregon Mr. Kahn of committing intersexual maltreatment oregon witnessing intersexual abuse, nor claimed astatine immoderate clip that she reported to them immoderate allegation of Mr. Epstein's abuse," Weiner said. "Indyke and Kahn did not socialize with Mr. Epstein, and they person ever rejected arsenic categorically mendacious immoderate proposition that they knowingly facilitated oregon assisted Mr. Epstein successful his intersexual maltreatment oregon trafficking of women, oregon that they were alert of Mr. Epstein's actions portion they provided ineligible and accounting services to Mr. Epstein."

The committee has heard from an ongoing watercourse of acold much salient names, but fewer who were arsenic adjacent to Epstein arsenic Indyke. Convicted enactment offender Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's co-conspirator, invoked her Fifth Amendment close against self-incrimination and refused to reply questions during a virtual quality earlier the committee.

Former President Bill Clinton testified connected Feb. 27, denying immoderate cognition of Epstein's crimes. His wife, erstwhile Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said she didn't cognize Epstein. She said the committee should request President Trump beryllium for questions "under oath arsenic should others who are prominently featured successful the files."

Kahn initially testified that the property reached a colony with a pistillate who made maltreatment allegations against some Epstein and Mr. Trump. His lawyer aboriginal recanted that statement, saying helium could neither corroborate nor deny immoderate specified settlement, pursuing a daylong back-and-forth with Democrats who criticized what they called "inconsistent" statements.

Billionaire Les Wexner was 1 of Epstein's astir important benefactors. He claimed to the committee helium was "duped by a world-class con man" and knew thing of Epstein's crimes.

Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the committee's Republican chairman, said connected March 11 that Kahn was questioned astir Wexner.

"He confirmed determination were 5 clients that paid wealth to Epstein, and that was Les Wexner, Glenn Dubin, Steven Sinofsky, the Rothschilds and Leon Black," Comer told reporters.

Comer said Black, besides an capitalist and billionaire, would beryllium deposed "very soon."

Comer connected Tuesday subpoenaed Attorney General Pam Bondi for grounds related to the department's handling of the Epstein files.

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