2026年3月11日 / 美国东部时间上午6:00 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
一位与杰弗里·爱泼斯坦（Jeffrey Epstein）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（Richard Kahn）是爱泼斯坦晚年最亲密的助手之一，负责管理他的财务、投资和其他细节事务，例如爱泼斯坦私人加勒比海岛屿的装修工作。
卡恩是预计将在委员会面前作证的两名爱泼斯坦遗产执行人中的第一位。另一位是律师达伦·因迪克（Darren Indyke），他定于3月19日接受询问。爱泼斯坦的幸存者将两人视为这位富有性交易者复杂财务和运营中的关键环节。
诉讼文件和爱泼斯坦档案（国会通过法案要求司法部发布的数百万份文件）显示，三人运营着一个复杂且相互交织的商业网络。
卡恩和因迪克于1月收到传票后，他们的律师丹尼尔·H·韦纳（Daniel H. Weiner）向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻发表声明称，针对他们的指控是“虚假的”。
“值得强调的是，从未有任何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，也从未有人声称她向他们报告过爱泼斯坦的任何虐待指控，”韦纳说。“因迪克和卡恩并未与爱泼斯坦交往，他们一直坚决否认任何暗示他们明知故犯地协助或帮助爱泼斯坦进行性虐待或贩卖妇女，或在为爱泼斯坦提供法律和会计服务时意识到其行为的说法。”
卡恩和因迪克最近解决了一起诉讼，该诉讼指控他们为移民目的促成了虚假婚姻，即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向受害者的付款，受害者的律师称卡恩和因迪克是这些公司管理中的关键人物。司法部爱泼斯坦档案中包含的内部银行通信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日的证词中否认知道爱泼斯坦的罪行。这是第一位被强制向国会作证的前总统。
“我完全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，并暗示总统特朗普也应接受类似采访，“像档案中其他重要人物一样宣誓回答问题。”
特朗普先生和爱泼斯坦在21世纪中期闹翻前是多年的朋友。爱泼斯坦档案中包含一名女性对特朗普先生的未经证实的指控，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（Les Wexner）和被判有罪的性交易者吉斯莱恩·麦克斯韦（Ghislaine Maxwell）。韦克斯纳曾是爱泼斯坦的客户，他声称自己“被一个世界级的骗子欺骗了”，并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，在委员会的虚拟听证会上援引了反对自证其罪的第五修正案权利，拒绝回答问题。
卡拉·塔巴尼克（Cara Tabachnick）和丹尼尔·鲁滕尼克（Daniel Ruetenik）为本报告提供了素材。
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.
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