{"id":73477,"date":"2026-05-13T17:55:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/howard-lutnick-said-he-had-three-meaningless-and-inconsequential-meetings-with-epstein\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:55:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:55:57","slug":"howard-lutnick-said-he-had-three-meaningless-and-inconsequential-meetings-with-epstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/howard-lutnick-said-he-had-three-meaningless-and-inconsequential-meetings-with-epstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard Lutnick said he had three \u2018meaningless and inconsequential\u2019 meetings with Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In House committee transcript, commerce secretary denied any further contact with disgraced financier<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, told lawmakers in a closed-door interview earlier this month that he met <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/jeffrey-epstein\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> only three times and had no \u201cpersonal or professional relationship\u201d with the disgraced financier, according to a newly released transcript of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI unequivocally condemn the conduct attributed to Jeffrey Epstein and everyone who participated in his illegal activities,\u201d Lutnick said in his opening statement before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/house-of-representatives\">House<\/a> oversight and reform committee.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/13\/howard-lutnick-jeffrey-epstein-interview-transcript\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In House committee transcript, commerce secretary denied any further contact with disgraced financier Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email The US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, told lawmakers in a closed-door interview earlier this month that he met Jeffrey Epstein only three times and had no \u201cpersonal or professional relationship\u201d with the disgraced &#8230; <a title=\"Howard Lutnick said he had three \u2018meaningless and inconsequential\u2019 meetings with Epstein\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/howard-lutnick-said-he-had-three-meaningless-and-inconsequential-meetings-with-epstein\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Howard Lutnick said he had three \u2018meaningless and inconsequential\u2019 meetings with Epstein\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}