Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Tuesday agreed to appear in front of the House Oversight Committee as part of its investigation into the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The Trump-appointed Cabinet official has come under fire in recent weeks, after the Jan. 30 batch of Epstein files released by the Department of Justice included communication between Lutnick and Epstein, his former next-door neighbor.
Lutnick told Axios, which first reported his agreement Tuesday, “I look forward to appearing before the committee. I have done nothing wrong and I want to set the record straight.”