The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday approved new subpoenas related to a deceased sex offender. Jeffrey Epstein.
The board voted to summon the billionaire to court Wexners about his connections with Epstein and approved the subpoena of co-executors of Epstein's estate: lawyer Darren Indyk and accountant Richard Kahn.
Wexner, the former CEO of Victoria's Secret, had a long relationship with Epstein dating back to the 1980s and hired him to manage his personal finances.
IN 2019 letter to his Wexner FoundationWexner said he ended his relationship with Epstein after Epstein was accused of sexually abusing minors in Florida. After they parted ways, “we discovered that he had embezzled enormous amounts of money from me and my family,” Wexner said. “I deeply regret ever crossing him,” he added.
A spokesman for Wexner could not immediately be reached for comment on the subpoena.
Wexner was named in a 2019 FBI email about possible accomplices that was released as part of the investigation. continued release of Epstein files Ministry of Justice. A Wexner representative previously reported this. Columbus Dispatch newspaper in Ohio that prosecutors told Wexner's lawyer at the time that he was “neither an accomplice nor a target in any way” in the investigation.
The House Oversight Committee has already received thousands Records from Epstein's estate under congressional subpoena as part of its own investigation. This also summoned to court former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as well as former Justice Department officials.
Daniel Weiner, an attorney for Epstein's estate, and Indyk and Kahn said in an email Wednesday evening that the co-executors had complied with a previous subpoena for records and “fully intend to continue their cooperation with the committee, including its efforts to investigate potential government wrongdoing regarding Mr. Epstein, and hope to set the record straight regarding their lack of involvement in Mr. Epstein's misconduct.”
He added that Indyk and Kahn “had no communication with Mr. Epstein, and they have always rejected as categorically false any suggestion that they knowingly aided or assisted Mr. Epstein in his sexual abuse or trafficking of women, or that they were aware of Mr. Epstein's actions when they provided legal and accounting services to Mr. Epstein.”
The subpoenas approved Wednesday still must be written, usually with a proposed date for testimony, and signed by committee Chairman James Comer, a Kentucky Republican, before they can be sent.
Rebecca Kaplan contributed.
