2026年3月11日 / 美国东部时间上午6:00 / CBS新闻
一位与杰弗里·爱泼斯坦密切合作超过十年、在其死后成为其遗产执行人的会计师，将于周三闭门接受众议院监督委员会的质询。
理查德·卡恩是爱泼斯坦晚年最亲密的伙伴之一，负责管理他的财务、投资和其他琐事，例如爱泼斯坦在其加勒比私人岛屿上的翻新工程。
卡恩是预计将在委员会面前作证的两名遗产执行人中的第一位。另一位是律师达伦·因迪克，定于3月19日接受询问。爱泼斯坦的幸存者们将两人视为这位富有性交易犯复杂财务和运营中的关键齿轮。
在诉讼和爱泼斯坦文件中公布的文件——包括国会通过法案后司法部发布的数百万份文件——显示这三人运营的商业网络复杂且纠缠不清。
卡恩和因迪克于1月被传票传唤后，他们的律师丹尼尔·H·韦纳在给CBS新闻的声明中称对他们的指控是”虚假的”。
“值得强调的是，从未有女性指控因迪克先生或卡恩先生实施性虐待或目睹性虐待，也从未有人声称在任何时候向他们报告过爱泼斯坦虐待的指控，”韦纳表示。”因迪克和卡恩没有与爱泼斯坦交往，对于任何暗示他们在为爱泼斯坦提供法律服务和会计服务期间明知故犯地协助或帮助爱泼斯坦实施性虐待或贩卖妇女，或他们知晓爱泼斯坦的行为的说法，他们一直明确否认是虚假的。”
卡恩和因迪克最近达成和解，解决了一起指控他们为移民目的促成虚假婚姻的诉讼，在这些婚姻中，外国出生的受害者与爱泼斯坦虐待的美国人结婚。
数十家相互关联的公司促成了对受害者的付款，其律师表示卡恩和因迪克是这些公司管理的关键人物。司法部爱泼斯坦文件中包含的内部银行通讯和个人电子邮件显示，两人密切关注爱泼斯坦的财务状况。
卡恩的证词是对与爱泼斯坦有联系的人士进行的一系列高调证词中的最新一起。
前总统比尔·克林顿在2月27日的证词中否认对爱泼斯坦的罪行有任何了解。这是首次有前总统被强制向国会作证。
“我当时不知道爱泼斯坦在实施犯罪，”克林顿说。
他的妻子、前国务卿希拉里·克林顿表示，她不认识爱泼斯坦，并建议特朗普总统也应接受类似采访，”像文件中突出的其他人一样宣誓回答问题。”
特朗普与爱泼斯坦在21世纪中期闹翻前是多年的朋友。爱泼斯坦文件包含一名女子对特朗普的未经证实的指控，特朗普一直否认与爱泼斯坦有关的任何不当行为。
在委员会正在进行的调查中作证的其他人包括亿万富翁莱斯·韦克斯纳和被判有罪的性交易贩子吉斯莱恩·麦克斯韦。韦克斯纳曾是爱泼斯坦的客户，声称自己”被一个世界级的骗子欺骗”，对爱泼斯坦的罪行一无所知。麦克斯韦可能是爱泼斯坦最亲密的知己，在委员会虚拟听证会上援引第五修正案反对自我归罪，拒绝回答问题。
卡拉·塔巴尼克和丹尼尔·鲁特尼科夫对本报道有贡献。
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/doj-admits-to-coding-errors-in-epstein-files-release/
Richard Kahn, Epstein’s accountant and confidant, to testify to House committee today
March 11, 2026 / 6:00 AM EDT / CBS News
An accountant who worked closely with Jeffrey Epstein for more than a decade and became an executor of Epstein’s estate after his death will be questioned behind closed doors Wednesday by the House Oversight Committee.
Richard Kahn was one of Epstein’s closest associates in his final years, managing his finances, investments and other minutiae, such as renovations on Epstein’s private Caribbean island.
Kahn is the first of two executors of Epstein’s estate expected to testify before the committee. The other, lawyer Darren Indyke, is scheduled to sit for questions on March 19. Epstein survivors have honed in on both men as critical cogs in the wealthy sex trafficker’s complex finances and operations.
Documents released in lawsuits and among the Epstein files — millions of documents the Department of Justice released after Congress passed an act mandating it to do so — show a sophisticated and tangled web of businesses operated by the trio.
After Kahn and Indyke were subpoenaed in January, an attorney for the men, Daniel H. Weiner, said in a statement to CBS News that allegations against them are “false.”
“It is worth emphasizing that not a single woman has ever accused either Mr. Indyke or Mr. Kahn of committing sexual abuse or witnessing sexual abuse, nor claimed at any time that she reported to them any allegation of Mr. Epstein’s abuse,” Weiner said. “Indyke and Kahn did not socialize with Mr. Epstein, and they have always rejected as categorically false any suggestion that they knowingly facilitated or assisted Mr. Epstein in his sexual abuse or trafficking of women, or that they were aware of Mr. Epstein’s actions while they provided legal and accounting services to Mr. Epstein.”
Kahn and Indyke recently settled a lawsuit alleging they facilitated sham marriages in which foreign-born victims married Americans whom Epstein abused, for immigration purposes.
Dozens of interconnected companies facilitated payments to victims, whose attorneys have said Kahn and Indyke were key figures in the management of those firms. Internal banking communications and personal emails included in the Justice Department’s Epstein files show the pair kept close tabs on Epstein’s finances.
Kahn’s testimony is the latest in an ongoing procession of high-profile depositions of people with whom Epstein associated.
Former President Bill Clinton denied any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes during a Feb. 27 deposition. It was the first time a former president had been compelled to testify to Congress.
“I had no idea of the crimes Epstein was committing,” Clinton said.
His wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said she didn’t know Epstein, and suggested President Trump be subjected to a similar interview, “answering questions under oath as should others who are prominently featured in the files.”
Mr. Trump and Epstein were friends for years before a falling-out in the mid-2000s. The Epstein files include uncorroborated accusations by a woman against Mr. Trump, who has consistently denied any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein.
Others who have testified in the committee’s ongoing probe include billionaire Les Wexner and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. Wexner, a former client of Epstein, claimed he was “duped by a world-class con man” and knew nothing of Epstein’s crimes. Maxwell, perhaps Epstein’s closest confidante, invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and refused to answer questions during a virtual appearance before the committee.
Cara Tabachnick and Daniel Ruetenik contributed to this report.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/doj-admits-to-coding-errors-in-epstein-files-release/
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