Howard Lutnick spoke about his visit to Jeffrey Epstein's island during a meeting of the Senate Budget Committee. When asked whether – as the e-mail correspondence indicates – he visited the American financier's private island in the Virgin Islands in 2012, the secretary of the US Department of Commerce confirmed that he had been there.
The politician indicated that they met with Jeffrey Epstein for an hour-long lunch, where his children and wife and another couple were present. — I met Jeffrey Epstein when I moved into the house next door to his in New York. And then I met him twice more for the next 14 years, and then not once for six years,” Howard Lutnick said.
— Out of these millions of documents, maybe 10 emails connect me with him. So for 14 years I had no relationship with him. I barely had anything to do with him, he noted.
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Howard Lutnick allegedly visited Jeffrey Epstein at home. “The world's greatest blackmailer”
Democratic Party politicians questioning Howard Lutnick pointed out that there is no mention in the documents suggesting that the secretary of the US Department of Commerce engaged in inappropriate behavior, but his words contradict what he said in an interview last year, when he claimed that after he visited Jeffrey Epstein at his home in 2005.
After the visit, he was so shocked that he decided never to meet the American financier again. Howard Lutnick also described Jeffrey Epstein as “the world's greatest blackmailer.”
The Jeffrey Epstein scandal. He was supposed to talk to Howard Lutnick
However, documents published by the Ministry of Justice indicate that the two men may have had a close relationship. In 2012, both companies together bought shares in the advertising company Adfin, and in 2017 Jeffrey Epstein agreed to pay PLN 50,000. dollars for a luncheon in honor of Howard Lutnick, organized by billionaire John Paulson. Paulson, in his email to Epstein, suggested that Lutnick was his close friend.
In 2018, Lutnick wrote to Epstein, complaining about the planned expansion of the art museum in their neighborhood, which – in his opinion – would block their view from the window.
At least several members of the US Congress have so far called on Howard Lutnick to resign from office due to his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
