Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is set to testify Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein as bipartisan calls for his resignation mount.
Lutnick’s association with the late sex offender was revealed in documents released in January by the Justice Department as part of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
The billionaire and former Wall Street investment banker previously denied the extent of his connection to Epstein, who died in a Manhattan jail in 2019. In a podcast interview last year, the Trump Cabinet official said he cut ties with the disgraced financier in 2005.
But the DOJ’s document dump of more than 3 million files related to federal investigations into Epstein contradicted his account.
In February, Lutnick acknowledged he visited Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands with his wife, children and nannies in 2012.
Last month, during Lutnick’s testimony in front of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Democrats grilled him about Epstein and what he knew about Epstein’s purported interest in a Lutnick family nanny.
Lutnick said he knew nothing about that, adding that the visit to the island was an hourlong lunch with his family while they were on vacation.
Lutnick has denied wrongdoing, and just as with other prominent individuals, his mere appearance in the Epstein files does not imply guilt.
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