Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick downplayed his relationship with late sex predator Jeffrey Epstein on Tuesday, after new emails shed light on their interactions and sparked calls for his resignation.
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“I met Jeffrey Epstein when I moved to a house next door to him in New York,” Lutnick told a Senate subcommittee Tuesday. “… Over the next 14 years, I met him two other times that I can recall.”
In October, Lutnick suggested to The Post’s “Pod Force One” that he only met Epstein once, in around 2005, and resolved to “never be in the room with that disgusting person ever again.”
However, recently released emails showed Lutnick and Epstein making arrangements to meet for drinks and to visit the late sex predator’s private island after Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to Florida
“I did not have a relationship with him, I barely had anything to do with that person.”
