Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick admitted to visiting Jeffrey Epstein’s private island with his family in 2012, despite previously claiming he cut all ties with the convicted sex offender after a creepy encounter years earlier. The revelation came during a closed-door congressional hearing this week, where Lutnick called the lunch invitation “unsettling” but went anyway, bringing his wife and kids along for the two-hour visit.
According to The NY Post, Lutnick, who lived next door to Epstein on Manhattan’s Upper East Side from 2005 to 2019, told lawmakers he only met with Epstein three times. The first was before Epstein’s 2019 suicide while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. The other two meetings happened after Epstein’s 2008 plea deal, which forced him to register as a sex offender.
