Howard Lutnick: Show Yourself the Door
Jeffrey Epstein’s next-door neighbor is unfit to serve.
Howard Lutnick, billionaire financier and United States Secretary of Commerce, should pack his bags.
Why? Lutnick should resign because he unambiguously lied about the nature of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. The American people deserve leaders who have the judgment and character needed to avoid associating with sex offenders.
Lutnick not only associated with Epstein, he also lied about it.
What are the facts? In 2005, Lutnick moved into a mansion on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. His next-door neighbor was Jeffrey Epstein. Lutnick said he was invited to Epstein’s house for coffee shortly thereafter, and he was so disgusted by Mr. Epstein’s conspicuous massage table that he completely cut ties with Epstein.
In an October 2025 interview, Lutnick’s direct quote was: “I was never in the room with him socially, for business or even philanthropy. If that guy was there, I wasn’t going ‘cause he’s gross.” Gross is an understatement. But Lutnick’s emails tell a different story about his relationship with Epstein.
In 2008, Lutnick’s neighbor pleaded guilty for soliciting underage sex. But that didn’t stop Lutnick from continuing to interact with him. On May 1, 2011, Lutnick came over to Epstein’s mansion for 5 o’clock drinks:
In December 2012, Lutnick reached out to Epstein to arrange a visit with his family to Epstein’s private Caribbean island. Lutnick’s wife followed-up to advise Epstein’s assistant that the Lutnicks would arrive on a 188-foot yacht named “Excellence.” And one day after the visit was scheduled to take place, Epstein’s assistant forwarded a message to Lutnick that said, “Nice seeing you.”
One week after their Caribbean rendezvous, Lutnick and Epstein both signed a stock purchase agreement to invest in a private company called AdFin Solutions Inc., which sought to provide novel intelligence to online advertising buyers. Ultimately, AdFin went out of business.
But a seemingly bad investment didn’t stop their ongoing association. Later in 2013, Epstein acquired the résumé of the Lutnick’s family nanny. Lutnick’s representatives denied that Lutnick supplied the nanny’s résumé, and they say they do not know how Epstein acquired it.
In 2017, Epstein contributed $50,000 to a charitable event honoring Lutnick. And, in 2018, Lutnick sought Epstein’s support in fighting a construction project by a museum across the street from their homes that would block their views. This 2018 exchange is the last correspondence between the men that has been identified thus far in the files released by the Department of Justice.
Let’s recap: The latest round of Epstein files released by the Department of Justice reveal that Lutnick and Epstein interacted regularly—well after Epstein was convicted for soliciting prostitution from a minor. The evidence from the files show that the two financiers invested in the same privately held company together, worked together on neighborhood and philanthropic endeavors, and socialized both in New York and the Caribbean. Then, in October 2025, Lutnick publicly lied about the nature and extent of their relationship, presumably in an attempt to downplay it.
For all these reasons, Lutnick must go.
Just this week, in testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Lutnick doubled down on his attempts to sweep his relationship with Epstein under the rug. When asked why the files show him coordinating a meeting with Epstein on his private island in 2012, Lutnick replied: “I did not have any relationship with him. I barely had anything to do with that person.”
But when pressed on the matter of whether or not he ever visited the island, Lutnick admitted: “I did have lunch with him as I was on a boat going across on a family vacation. My wife was with me as were my four children and nannies…We had lunch on the island.”
Is it wrong to have lunch with a convicted child sex offender and alleged human trafficker on a private island? Legally, probably not. Morally, absolutely. To then lie about it repeatedly and publicly speaks volumes about Lutnick’s character, ethics, and judgment.
It is understandable that those with knowledge of Epstein’s sordid crimes would seek to distance themselves from him, as Lutnick and many others have done. But the American people deserve accountability from all of our government officials—especially Cabinet-level officials. Secretary Lutnick must step down.
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As if these things matter now. Effortless bald-faced lying is a primary hiring criterion.