Embattled Cabinet Secretary to testify about Epstein friendship
Source: Raw Story · Bias: Far Left
Summary
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has reportedly agreed to sit for an interview with the House Oversight Committee about his ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.On Tuesday, Axios reported that Lutnick volunteered to testify in a deposition after his name appeared in recently released files on Epstein's case."I look forward to appearing before the committee," Lutnick said in a statement. "I have done nothing wrong, and I want to set the record straight."During a New York Post podcast last year, Lutnick said that he had only met Epstein in 2005 before pledging, "I will never be in the room with that disgusting person ever again."The Epstein files, however, showed that Lutnick met Epstein at his home in 2011 and on his island in 2012."I don't recall why we did it," the Commerce secretary told the Senate Appropriations Committee regarding the meeting on Epstein's island.
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