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美国商务部长霍华德·卢特尼克计划于周三在众议院监督委员会接受质询，这是该委员会针对杰弗里·爱泼斯坦相关调查的一部分。
卢特尼克的自愿闭门证词作证前，该委员会已传唤了多名权势人物，持续数月之久。其中多人在被称为“爱泼斯坦文件”的300多万页记录中被曝出令人尴尬的内幕。
这些文件显示，卢特尼克与爱泼斯坦最晚在2014年仍有商业合作，两人共同投资了一家现已倒闭的名为Adfin的广告公司。文件还披露，2012年卢特尼克与妻子艾莉森及子女曾到访爱泼斯坦在加勒比海拥有的私人小岛圣詹姆斯小岛。
爱泼斯坦和卢特尼克均出现在文件中一张未注明拍摄日期的照片里，该照片似乎拍摄于爱泼斯坦的私人小岛。
在此爆料曝光前，曾担任金融服务公司Cantor Fitzgerald董事长的卢特尼克一直声称，自己在2005年就断绝了与爱泼斯坦的联系——比这名金融家因佛罗里达州卖淫指控认罪早三年。两人曾在纽约市比邻而居多年，甚至在2018年还就Adfin公司以及两人住宅附近计划中的博物馆扩建项目互发邮件，而2018年正是爱泼斯坦在狱中去世的前一年。
今年2月在参议院作证时，卢特尼克称自己“几乎和那个人没有任何交集”，此处的“那个人”指爱泼斯坦。不过他也承认曾到访爱泼斯坦的小岛。
“我们确实在岛上共进了一小时午餐，之后便和我所有的孩子、保姆以及妻子一同离开了，”卢特尼克说道，“我们当时是全家度假，所有人都在一起。如果有人暗示2012年那次出行有任何不当之处，我不记得我们当时为何要这么做，但我们确实去了。”
卢特尼克作证的一周前，该委员会宣布前司法部长帕姆·邦迪同意于本月晚些时候在委员会作证。她原本定于4月14日出庭，但在被解除职务后，美国司法部取消了她的作证安排。
此前已出席作证的人员包括爱泼斯坦遗产的执行人、前总统比尔·克林顿、前国务卿希拉里·克林顿以及亿万富翁商人莱斯·韦克斯纳。
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/howard-lutnick-admits-meeting-epstein-including-visit-family-island/
Howard Lutnick set to testify in House Oversight Committee’s Epstein probe today
May 6, 2026 / 6:00 AM EDT / CBS News
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is scheduled to be questioned Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee as part of its investigation related to Jeffrey Epstein.
Lutnick’s voluntary closed-door deposition comes amid a monthslong procession of powerful people summoned before the committee, many of whom have been subjected to embarrassing revelations in the more than 3 million pages of records known as the Epstein files.
The files show Epstein and Lutnick were in business together as recently as 2014, each investing in a now-defunct advertising company called Adfin. The files also revealed that in 2012, Lutnick, his wife, Allison, and their children visited Little St. James, the private Caribbean island Epstein owned.
Epstein and Lutnick were among a group of men seen in an undated photo from the files that appears to have been taken on Epstein’s island.
Before those revelations, Lutnick, the former chairman of the financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald, had maintained he cut off contact with Epstein in 2005, three years before the financier entered a guilty plea to state prostitution charges in Florida. The men lived next door to each other in New York City for years and exchanged emails as late as 2018 — the year before Epstein’s death in jail — about Adfin and a planned museum expansion near their homes.
During testimony before the Senate in February, Lutnick said he “barely had anything to do with that person,” referring to Epstein. However, he acknowledged visiting Epstein’s island.
“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.”
Lutnick’s testimony comes a week after the committee announced that former Attorney General Pam Bondi has agreed to testify before the panel later this month. She was originally scheduled to appear April 14, but the Justice Department cancelled her deposition after she was ousted from her post.
Others who have appeared include the executors of Epstein’s estate, as well as former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and billionaire businessman Les Wexner.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/howard-lutnick-admits-meeting-epstein-including-visit-family-island/
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