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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is set to give a transcribed interview behind closed doors about his interactions with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to a House panel on Wednesday morning.
Lutnick is just one of several high-profile people to be asked to speak in a non-public session to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about Epstein on the heels of the Department of Justice's release of documents about the predator.
Former Attorney General Pam Bondi, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and billionaire Leon Black are among those scheduled to give interviews to the panel in the coming weeks.
Lutnick's interview, which will not be under oath, is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. ET. The interview will not be recorded on video.
Lutnick was a New York City neighbor of Epstein, who killed himself in jail in August 2019 after his arrest on federal child sex trafficking charges.
Lutnick previously said he cut contact with Epstein in 2005, several years before Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida state court to soliciting an underage girl for prostitution.
But DOJ files showed the two men remained in contact in the years after that.
Lutnick admitted to a Senate committee in February that he, his family and nannies visited Epstein's private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2012.
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