Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick will testify before the House Oversight Committee about his association with the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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“I look forward to appearing before the committee,” Lutnick first told Axios. “I have done nothing wrong and I want to set the record straight.”
Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) also said in a statement Tuesday that the Cabinet official had “proactively agreed” to do so — after Democrats on the panel pushed for Lutnick’s to be subpoenaed for questioning.
“I commend his demonstrated commitment to transparency and appreciate his willingness to engage with the Committee. I look forward to his testimony,” Comer added.
Lutnick agreed to the voluntary interview after an undated photo of him wandering alongside Epstein on the financier’s private island surfaced in official Justice Department disclosures.
In an early February hearing before Congress, the commerce secretary admitted to a lunch visit with Epstein on Little St. James that lasted roughly an hour in 2012.
“We left with all of my children, with my nannies and my wife. All together. We were on a family vacation. We were not apart,” Lutnick told a Senate subcommittee. “I don’t recall why we did it, but we did.”
Lutnick also copped to sharing drinks with the then-registered sex offender the year before, which was memorialized in emails released as part of the DOJ’s Epstein Library.
