Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick testifies during a during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing on the Commerce Department’s 2027 budget request in Washington, DC on April 22, 2026.
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Lutnick’s interview, which will not be under oath, was scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. ET. The interview is not being recorded on video.
Lutnick was a New York City neighbor of Epstein, who killed himself in jail in August 2019 after his arrest on federal child sex trafficking charges.
Lutnick previously said he cut contact with Epstein in 2005, several years before Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida state court to soliciting an underage girl for prostitution.
But DOJ files showed the two men remained in contact in the years after that.
Lutnick admitted to a Senate committee in February that he, his family and nannies visited Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2012.
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