GOP House Chair Says Lutnick Not ‘100% Truthful’ on Epstein Ties

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, a former neighbor of Jeffrey Epstein who visited the disgraced financier on his Caribbean island, on Wednesday became the first sitting cabinet member to testify to the US House committee investigating the sex offender’s crimes and possible lapses in the law enforcement response.

Lutnick came under fire earlier this year after documents released by the Justice Department revealed the former chief executive officer of Cantor Fitzgerald LP visited Epstein’s island in 2012, years after Epstein’s conviction for the procurement of minors for prostitution.

House Oversight Chairman James Comer told reporters on Wednesday that Lutnick “wasn’t ...