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House lawmakers were digging into Jeffrey Epstein's sprawling fiscal portfolio connected Wednesday (March 11, 2026) arsenic a committee deposed his erstwhile accountant and tried to recognize his connections to immoderate of the world's wealthiest men.
Richard Kahn, who worked intimately with Epstein for years and present serves arsenic an executor of his estate, appeared for the closed-door deposition connected Capitol Hill. He told lawmakers that helium had not personally seen grounds of Epstein's intersexual abuse, but provided a fuller representation of however Epstein acquired his wealth.
The affluent financier made hundreds of millions of dollars implicit 2 decades during which helium struck up friendships with immoderate of the world's astir almighty men.
Mr. Kahn “was nether the content that Epstein made his wealth arsenic a taxation advisor and a fiscal planner,” said Rep. James Comer, the Republican seat of the House Oversight Committee.
Lawmakers argued that a fuller representation of Epstein's finances could assistance the nationalist recognize however for years helium was capable to get distant with trafficking and sexually abusing underage girls.
“Jeffrey Epstein's enactment trafficking ringing would not person been imaginable without Richard Kahn, who managed Epstein's wealth for years, authorised payments, including payments to victims and survivors,” said Rep. James Walkinshaw, D-Va., who added that Mr. Kahn told them helium was incapable to callback details of immoderate of the transactions and communications that helium was asked about.
Mr. Kahn has said that helium was unaware of Epstein's intersexual maltreatment and had not seen immoderate of his victims.
Rep. Comer, R-Ky., besides said that lawmakers confirmed during the deposition that Epstein received important amounts of wealth from erstwhile retail buying concatenation enforcement Les Wexner, hedge money manager Glenn Dubin, tech entrepreneur Steven Sinofsky, capitalist Leon Black and the Rothschilds, a affluent banking family.
None of those radical person been accused of wrongdoing successful their relationships with Epstein, but Democrats connected the committee argued that anyone with ties to the affluent financier should beryllium scrutinized. Wexner was deposed by the committee past month, and Mr. Comer has besides called connected Mr. Black, among respective others, to look for transcribed interviews.
Mr. Comer besides said connected Wednesday (March 11, 2026) that the committee person reviewed implicit 40,000 documents that it subpoenaed from JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank.
Epstein was connected to astatine slightest 64 concern entities, according to Mr. Comer.
Republican President Donald Trump has powerfully denied immoderate wrongdoing successful his ain ties to Epstein, and Mr. Comer said that Mr. Kahn had ne'er seen immoderate fiscal transactions betwixt Epstein and Mr. Trump.
He said that Mr. Kahn is the latest witnesser to attest that they had ne'er seen Trump doing thing incorrect with Epstein.
“The investigation's astir getting the information to the American people, trying to fig retired however the authorities failed, reply questions we each have,” helium said.
