{"id":690665,"date":"2026-07-14T06:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690665\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T06:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:43:11","slug":"how-us-commerce-secretarys-epstein-links-were-uncovered-by-british-whistleblower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690665\/","title":{"rendered":"How US commerce secretary’s Epstein links were uncovered by British whistleblower"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four years earlier in Florida, Epstein had been sent to prison for two charges of soliciting prostitution – including one with a minor.<\/p>\n

Andriesz suspected there was yet more to find in the Epstein files that could back up his claims – if only people knew where to look in the 3.5 million pages of documents.<\/p>\n

“Everyone was searching ‘Lutnick’,” he says. He knew, though, that Cantor Fitzgerald executives preferred to use initials rather than full names in their emails.<\/p>\n

Andriesz searched for “HWL” (Howard William Lutnick) and found emails sent to and from Epstein in 2018. Epstein had talked directly to Lutnick about a digital advertising company called Adfin, in which he and Lutnick’s firm, Cantor Fitzgerald, had both invested.<\/p>\n

Andriesz spotted correspondence, external<\/a> where Epstein had directly asked the HWL account: “what do you think the prospects for adfin are?”<\/p>\n

Lutnick responded: “Producing revenue finally. This is their year. Next 12 months they need to become economically self-sufficient.”<\/p>\n

Andriesz then shared this information with US politicians on the House Oversight Committee, the US Congress’s main investigatory committee.<\/p>\n

Lutnick agreed to appear before the committee in an off-camera hearing in May.<\/p>\n

He has not been accused of any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein, and he told the committee: “I unequivocally condemn the conduct attributed to Jeffrey Epstein and everyone who participated in his illegal activities. The survivors of his crimes deserve our respect and support.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four years earlier in Florida, Epstein had been sent to prison for two charges of soliciting prostitution –…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-690665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}