This live blog is now closed. Howard Lutnick answers questions from US House over Jeffrey Epstein ties Sign up for the Breaking News US email It’s worth noting, ahead of Howard Lutnick’s closed-door testimony before House oversight committee members today, that the commerce secretary has refused to...

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Secretary Howard Lutnick is questioned by House lawmakers over his Epstein ties Lutnick said last year that he cut ties with Epstein, his former neighbor, in 2005. But the Epstein files indicate that the two kept in contact, including for a 2012 lunch on Epstein's private island. (Image credit: J.

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