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Who is in the Epstein files? - BBC bbc.com Feb 26, 2026 5 facts
claimThe US Department of Commerce stated that Secretary Howard Lutnick had limited interactions with Jeffrey Epstein in the presence of his wife and has never been accused of wrongdoing.
claimHoward Lutnick told lawmakers that his visit to the region where Jeffrey Epstein had an island was for a vacation and that he had minimal contact with Epstein in the years following that visit.
claimHoward Lutnick acknowledged having a one-hour meeting with Jeffrey Epstein approximately one and a half years after his visit to the island.
claimHoward Lutnick confirmed during February 2026 congressional testimony that he spent about an hour on Jeffrey Epstein's private island in 2012 with his wife, four children, and their nannies.
claimUS Commerce Department Secretary Howard Lutnick visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island with his family in 2012, contradicting his previous claims that he had cut ties with Epstein years earlier.
Latest Jeffrey Epstein file disclosures rock the rich and powerful nbcnews.com Feb 12, 2026 5 facts
claimThe Commerce Department stated that Secretary Howard Lutnick had limited interactions with Jeffrey Epstein in the presence of his wife and has never been accused of wrongdoing.
quoteHoward Lutnick stated: '[M]y wife and I decided that I will never be in the room with that disgusting person ever again. So I was never in the room with him socially, for business or even philanthropy. That guy was there, I wasn’t going ’cause he is gross.'
accountIn an email dated Dec. 19, 2012, Howard Lutnick, then the chief executive at Cantor Fitzgerald, asked Jeffrey Epstein for the exact location of his boat for a potential dinner meeting while Lutnick was traveling to St. Thomas and St. Bart’s/Anguilla.
accountNewly released files show that Howard Lutnick and Jeffrey Epstein exchanged emails in 2012 regarding a potential boat trip to Jeffrey Epstein's private island.
claimCommerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told the New York Post in October that he considered Jeffrey Epstein, his former next-door neighbor, to be 'disgusting' and that he and his wife decided to avoid him after Epstein made an inappropriate comment during a 2005 tour of his mansion.
Tracking Trump's Trade Deals | Council on Foreign Relations cfr.org Mar 17, 2026 1 fact
quoteU.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick stated: “We’re going to have hundreds of companies coming here, we’re gonna build giant semiconductor industrial parks in America, and we are going to bring semiconductors home to America .… The objective is to bring 40 percent of Taiwan’s entire supply chain and production to America.”
DOJ declares full release of Epstein Files, but list of 300 names ... foxbaltimore.com Feb 16, 2026 1 fact
claimCommerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is facing bipartisan calls to resign due to emails showing he once considered taking his family to Jeffrey Epstein's private island in 2012, although the trip never occurred.