Lutnick set to testify in House committee's Epstein probe today

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is scheduled to beryllium questioned Wednesday earlier the House Oversight Committee arsenic portion of its probe related to Jeffrey Epstein.

Lutnick's voluntary closed-door deposition comes amid a monthslong procession of almighty radical summoned earlier the committee, galore of whom person been subjected to embarrassing revelations successful the more than 3 cardinal pages of records known arsenic the Epstein files.

The files amusement Epstein and Lutnick were successful concern together arsenic precocious arsenic 2014, each investing successful a now-defunct advertizing institution called Adfin. The files besides revealed that successful 2012, Lutnick, his wife, Allison, and their children visited Little St. James, the backstage Caribbean land Epstein owned.

Epstein and Lutnick were among a radical of men seen successful an undated photo from the files that appears to person been taken connected Epstein's island. 

Before those revelations, Lutnick, the erstwhile president of the fiscal services steadfast Cantor Fitzgerald, had maintained helium chopped disconnected interaction with Epstein successful 2005, 3 years earlier the financier entered a blameworthy plea to authorities prostitution charges successful Florida. The men lived adjacent doorway to each different successful New York City for years and exchanged emails arsenic precocious arsenic 2018 — the twelvemonth earlier Epstein's decease successful jailhouse — astir Adfin and a planned depository enlargement adjacent their homes.

During testimony earlier the Senate successful February, Lutnick said helium "barely had thing to bash with that person," referring to Epstein. However, helium acknowledged visiting Epstein's island.

"We had luncheon connected the island, that is true, for an hour. Then we near with each of my children, with my nannies and my woman each together," Lutnick said. "We were connected household vacation. We were not apart. To suggest determination was thing untoward astir that successful 2012, I don't callback wherefore we did it. But we did."

Lutnick's grounds comes a week aft the committee announced that erstwhile Attorney General Pam Bondi has agreed to attest earlier the sheet aboriginal this month. She was primitively scheduled to look April 14, but the Justice Department cancelled her deposition aft she was ousted from her post.

Others who person appeared see the executors of Epstein's estate, arsenic good arsenic erstwhile President Bill Clinton, erstwhile Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and billionaire businessman Les Wexner.