WASHINGTON — One of the co-executors of Jeffrey Epstein’s estate testified before a congressional panel Wednesday that the deceased sex criminal had at least five wealthy clients that paid him for various financial services, according to a House Republican lawmaker.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) told reporters Richard Kahn confirmed former Victoria’s Secret CEO Les Wexner, investor Leon Black, hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin, former Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky and the Rothschild family were all patrons of Epstein.
“What Kahn said is, he was under the impression that Epstein made his money as a tax adviser and a financial planner,” revealed Comer, adding that the accountant “had never seen any type of transaction to Trump or anyone in his family.”
But a rep for Dubin told The Post that it was false to claim Epstein had managed the Highbridge Capital Management cofounder’s money, when in fact it was the other way around. Epstein invested in Highbridge, according to the spokesperson.
Kahn is the fifth witness in the Oversight Committee’s investigation to have exonerated President Trump of any wrongdoing related to Epstein — joining Wexner, former President Bill Clinton, ex-Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, and former Attorney General Bill Barr.
In his opening statement, Kahn told Oversight panel members and staff that he was “not aware of the nature or extent of Epstein’s abuse of so many women until after Epstein’s death.”
The accountant also testified that Epstein said his 2008 guilty plea in Florida to soliciting a minor for prostitution was “a mistake, that he did not know the woman was underage, and that nothing like that would happen again.”
“I believed him at the time and never saw what appeared to be a minor in his presence,” Kahn added. “Had I learned of any of his horrific behavior, I would have quit work immediately.”
Kahn also rejected speculation that gifts the disgraced financier gave others were “red flags for abuse or trafficking” and stated that Epstein’s holding of lucrative assets in limited liability companies was “completely standard practice.”
Epstein, 66, was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell on Aug. 10, 2019, in what investigators later ruled was a suicide. He had been charged with federal counts related to sex trafficking — including some girls as young as 14 years old.
His accomplice and sometime girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, was convicted of conspiring with him and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
The Department of Justice has released more than 3 million pages of investigative materials concerning the pair’s cases, stretching back to a federal non-prosecution agreement reached with the feds in 2007 that had Epstein plead guilty to two state counts.
Epstein served just 13 months as a Florida inmate, with most of that time coming in a work release program.
Kahn, in his testimony before the Oversight Committee, noted that after the financier’s death he had helped set up an Epstein Victims Compensation Fund that paid sums to more than 130 women “in a confidential manner.”
The accountant also helped settle an additional 60 claims from purported Epstein survivors.
“For this work, I have been the subject of attacks by plaintiffs’ lawyers and have had my reputation dragged through the mud,” Kahn said in his prepared statement. “It has taken a tremendous toll on my family.”
“But I continued to serve as co-executor because I believe it is the right thing to do.”
Black, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, former Obama White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, ex-Bill Clinton aide Doug Band, billionaire philanthropist Ted Waitt, and Epstein assistants Lesley Groff and Sarah Kellen have also been sought by the committee for interviews.
