{"id":2599624,"date":"2026-05-06T17:41:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lutnick-testifies-on-his-epstein-ties-before-house-oversight-committee\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T17:42:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:42:45","slug":"lutnick-testifies-on-his-epstein-ties-before-house-oversight-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lutnick-testifies-on-his-epstein-ties-before-house-oversight-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Lutnick testifies on his Epstein ties before House oversight committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flutnick-testifies-on-his-epstein-ties-before-house-oversight-committee%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2599624&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Howard lutnick, the Commerce Secretary, testified for nearly four hours in a closed-door, transcribed interview with the House oversight committee on his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Chairman James Comer said Democrats repeated the same questions and that Republicans viewed Lutnick as \u201cforthcoming,\u201d noting Lutnick testified after it was revealed he visited Epstein\u2019s island.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. yassamin Ansari, who attended the interview, criticized Lutnick as \u201clying over and over again\u201d and called for his resignation, arguing that going to and engaging with Epstein reflects a broader culture that enabled Epstein\u2019s crimes. Ansari clarified that Lutnick\u2019s island visit occurred in 2012, after knowledge emerged in 2008 that Epstein had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pastor-high-school-coach-among-nearly-80-people-arrested-in-sex-trafficking-sting-operation\/\" title=\"Pastor, High School Coach Among Nearly 80 People Arrested In Sex Trafficking Sting Operation\">solicited sex<\/a> from a minor.<\/p>\n<p>The committee is investigating Epstein-related crimes and has conducted multiple prior interviews, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >including high-profile figures<\/a> and Epstein associates.A source said Epstein and Lutnick were neighbors from 2005 to 2019, and Comer stated they met only three times. Lutnick described those encounters as limited-initially stopping a visit when he noticed a massage table, discussing a possible home project in 2011, and having a brief lunch during a 2012 invitation-while asserting he never saw anything <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-nickelodeon-producer-dan-schneider-sues-makers-of-quiet-on-set-for-defamation-hit-job\/\" title=\"Dan Schneider, ex-Nickelodeon producer, sues Quiet on Set creators alleging defamation as a &#039;Hit job\">involving young women<\/a> and that his accounts have varied.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p>Commerce Secretary <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/howard-lutnick\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"11711\">Howard Lutnick<\/a> testified before the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house-oversight-committee\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"1524\">House oversight committee<\/a> on Wednesday about his ties to convicted sex offender <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jeffrey-epstein\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"1860\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Lutnick testified for nearly four hours in a closed-door, transcribed interview, after it was revealed he had visited Epstein\u2019s island. While <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democrats\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"249\">Democrats<\/a> slammed Lutnick for lying in the interview, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/republicans\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"240\">Republicans<\/a> said he was \u201cforthcoming.\u201d <\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4557857\/comer-lutnick-epstein-oversight-testimony\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Comer says Lutnick wasn\u2019t \u2018100% truthful\u2019 about Epstein ties before testimony<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4556063\/anna-paulina-luna-rising-gop-profile\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Anna Paulina Luna\u2019s rising GOP profile sparks talk of future in House leadership<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/4555486\/kemp-carter-georgia-redistricting-pressure\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Kemp faces pressure from Georgia congressman to take up redistricting: \u2018Delay the House primary\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>\u201cThe Democrats, during their hour, repeated the exact same questions because there\u2019s only so many questions you can ask Howard Lutnick, who lived, had a property next door to Epstein in New York, talked to him three times over a decade,\u201d House oversight committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) told reporters. <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>\u201cHe was on the island with his family, with his wife and kids, six people in his family and six people in his French family for lunch for two hours, and he has admitted that,\u201d Comer continued.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), who flew in from Arizona for the transcribed interview, told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> he was \u201clying over and over again\u201d and that he should resign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just demonstrates the culture of enabling these crimes and allowing rich and powerful people like Jeffrey Epstein to continue because people like Howard Lutnick knew these things were happening and continue to engage and legitimize,\u201d Ansari told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Ansari clarified that Lutnick went to Epstein\u2019s island in 2012, \u201cafter it was known in 2008 that Epstein had solicited sex from a minor,\u201d adding that she was not saying the secretary committed any crimes by going, but was enabling the \u201cculture.\u201d   <\/p>\n<p>Lutnick\u2019s testimony comes as the committee has been conducting an extensive investigation into the crimes related to Epstein, and as the Justice Department has released millions of documents.\u00a0The committee has already conducted nine other interviews, including with former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, former Attorney General Bill Barr, Epstein\u2019s former associate and girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, and billionaire Les Wexner.<\/p>\n<p>A person familiar with the committee\u2019s investigation told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> that Epstein and Lutnick were neighbors from 2005 to 2019. According to Comer, they only had three meetings together during that entire time.<\/p>\n<p>The first interaction occurred when Lutnick and his wife met with Epstein at his home when they became neighbors. Lutnick said Epstein provided a short tour of his home, and when he saw a massage table on the premises, he decided to end the visit.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4557128\/trump-says-ted-turner-devastated-cnn-going-woke\/\">TRUMP SAYS TED TURNER WAS \u2018DEVASTATED\u2019 BY CNN GOING WOKE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The two also met another time in 2011 to discuss a project on Epstein\u2019s home, which could impact his neighbors. In 2012, Lutnick and his family were also invited to Epstein\u2019s home while in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where they had a short lunch. <\/p>\n<p>Lutnick claimed he never saw Epstein with any young women and never witnessed anything inappropriate with young women, but has stated differing accounts of his interactions. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Lutnick testified about alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3691,"featured_media":2599626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/042326_WEX_HOWARD_LUTNICK-22-e1776965300210.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[9006,34573,33118,79229,8676],"class_list":["post-2599624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-epstein","tag-house-oversight-committee","tag-legal-proceedings","tag-paul-lutnick","tag-testimony"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/042326_WEX_HOWARD_LUTNICK-22-e1776965300210.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2599624"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2599629,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599624\/revisions\/2599629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2599626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2599624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2599624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2599624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}