{"id":850619,"date":"2026-09-17T05:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T05:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/850619\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T05:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T05:34:10","slug":"us-house-holds-billionaire-leon-black-in-contempt-over-epstein-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/850619\/","title":{"rendered":"US House holds billionaire Leon Black in contempt over Epstein probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The US House of Representatives held billionaire investor Leon Black in contempt of Congress on Wednesday for defying subpoenas issued in its investigation into notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The resolution was adopted by unanimous consent, without a recorded vote, a day after the House Oversight Committee unanimously recommended the action.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The matter will now be referred to the Justice Department, which will decide whether to pursue criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cNo one is above the law. Leon Black defied two subpoenas, and the US House of Representatives acted swiftly to find him in contempt of Congress,\u201d panel chairman James Comer said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US House of Representatives held billionaire investor Leon Black in contempt of Congress on Wednesday for defying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,81622,2724,791,15881,1340,31684,90371,23119,14825,16675,329017,3,21,19,22,20,25,145415,359484,24],"class_list":["post-850619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-apollo-global-management","tag-associated-press","tag-bill-clinton","tag-bill-gates","tag-congress","tag-ghislaine-maxwell","tag-house-oversight-committee","tag-james-comer","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-justice-department","tag-leon-black","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-house-of-representatives","tag-us-media","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}