Oversight Democrats accused Howard Lutnick of misleading the committee during a transcribed interview on Wednesday about the Commerce secretary’s ties with Jeffrey Epstein.
Lutnick is not accused of any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein’s crimes. But reports of Lutnick’s social ties to the disgraced financier put the Trump Cabinet member in hot water earlier this year.
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