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华盛顿 — 美国商务部部长霍华德·卢特尼克已同意回答众议院监督与政府改革委员会的提问，作为该委员会调查政府处理对定罪性犯罪者杰弗里·爱泼斯坦案件的一部分，委员会周二证实。
“卢特尼克部长主动同意自愿前往众议院监督与政府改革委员会作证，”监督委员会主席詹姆斯·科默众议员在一份声明中表示。“我赞扬他展现出的透明度承诺，并感谢他愿意与委员会合作。我期待他的证词。”
委员会尚未宣布采访日期。
卢特尼克是在司法部1月底公布超过300万页与爱泼斯坦调查相关的记录后，被披露与爱泼斯坦有交集的众多有权势人物之一。
卢特尼克曾表示，他于2005年切断了与爱泼斯坦的联系，而这位声名狼藉的金融家在佛罗里达州承认州级卖淫指控是在三年后的2008年。但电子邮件显示，2012年，卢特尼克、他的妻子艾莉森以及他们的孩子曾计划访问爱泼斯坦拥有的私人岛屿小圣詹姆斯岛。
在上个月国会作证时，卢特尼克被追问他与爱泼斯坦的关系，并承认去过该岛。尽管如此，他表示自己“几乎没和那个人有过任何关系”。
“我们在岛上吃了午餐，这是事实，持续了一个小时。然后我们带着所有孩子、保姆和妻子一起离开了，”卢特尼克说。“我们当时是家庭度假。我们没有分开。认为2012年那次有什么不当行为，我不记得为什么我们会那么做，但我们确实去了。”
爱泼斯坦和卢特尼克在纽约市也是邻居，司法部公布的文件显示，两人在2014年仍有商业往来，涉及一家名为Adfin的广告公司（该公司此后已关闭）。
此外，有一张无日期的照片显示两人与另外三名男子一同出现在爱泼斯坦的岛上。
根据政府公布的通讯记录，两人在2018年就该公司交换过电子邮件，并讨论了当年的博物馆扩建计划。
爱泼斯坦于2019年7月因联邦性交易指控被捕。他在曼哈顿惩教所等待审判期间自杀身亡。
帕特里克·马奎尔对本报道有贡献。
Howard Lutnick, Commerce secretary, agrees to interview with House committee in Epstein probe
Updated on: March 3, 2026 / 3:53 PM EST / CBS News
Washington — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has agreed to answer questions from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee as part of its investigation into the government’s handling of the case against convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the committee confirmed Tuesday.
“Secretary Lutnick has proactively agreed to appear voluntarily before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform,” Rep. James Comer, who chairs the Oversight Committee said in a statement. “I commend his demonstrated commitment to transparency and appreciate his willingness to engage with the Committee. I look forward to his testimony.”
The committee has not yet announced a date for the interview.
Lutnick is among a slew of powerful people who were revealed to have been in Epstein’s orbit after the Justice Departmentreleased more than 3 million pages of records stemming from its investigation into Epstein in late January.
Lutnick had said he cut off contact with Epstein in 2005, three years before the disgraced financier agreed to plead guilty to state prostitution charges in Florida. But emails showed that in 2012, Lutnick, his wife, Allison, and their children planned a visit to Little St. James, the private island that Epstein owned.
During testimony before Congress last month, Lutnick was pressed about his relationship to Epstein and acknowledged visiting the island. Still, he said he “barely had anything to do with that person.”
“We had lunch on the island, that is true, for an hour. Then we left with all of my children, with my nannies and my wife all together,” Lutnick said. “We were on family vacation. We were not apart. To suggest there was anything untoward about that in 2012, I don’t recall why we did it. But we did.”
Epstein and Lutnick were also neighbors in New York City, and documents released by the Justice Departmentshowed the two were in business togetheras recently as 2014 over their shared dealings in advertising company called Adfin, which has since shuttered.
Epstein and Lutnick, along with three other men, were also seen in anundated photo togetherthat appears to have been taken on Epstein’s island.
The duo exchanged emailsabout the firm in 2018 and also discussed a planned museum expansion plan that year, according to the communications released by the government.
Epstein was arrested and charged with federal sex-trafficking charges in July 2019. He died by suicide at a Manhattan correctional facility while awaiting trial.
Patrick Maguire contributed to this report.
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