FILE PHOTO: White Home counsel Kathryn Ruemmler listens as President Barack Obama speaks at an set up ceremony for FBI Director James Comey at FBI Headquarters in Washington, Monday, Oct. 28, 2013.
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The Home committee investigating the infamous intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein on Tuesday night time requested Microsoft founder Invoice Gates, Goldman Sachs‘ high lawyer, Kathryn Ruemmler, billionaires Leon Black and Ted Waitt, and three different individuals to testify about their dealings with Epstein.
Gates, Ruemmler and Black all shortly agreed to voluntary, transcribed interviews with the Home Oversight Committee.
The panel can also be in search of testimony from Doug Band, a former assistant to former President Invoice Clinton, Epstein’s former govt assistant Lesley Groff, and Sarah Kellen, one other former assistant to Epstein.
Invoice Gates speaks with Reuters throughout an interview in New York Metropolis, U.S., Might 8, 2025.
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A spokesperson for Gates mentioned, “Gates welcomes the chance to seem earlier than the Committee.”
“Whereas he by no means witnessed or participated in any of Epstein’s unlawful conduct, he’s trying ahead to answering all of the committee’s inquiries to assist their necessary work,” the spokesperson mentioned.
Ruemmler’s spokeswoman mentioned, “Ms. Ruemmler welcomes the chance to seem earlier than the Committee.”
“On the time she interacted with Jeffrey Epstein, she was a practising legal protection legal professional and shared a consumer with him,” mentioned Jennifer Connelly, her spokeswoman. “She has carried out nothing improper and had no information of any ongoing legal exercise on his half.”
The Home Oversight Committee’s request that Ruemmler voluntarily seem earlier than the panel comes practically three weeks after she mentioned she would depart Goldman Sachs on the finish of June.
Ruemmler’s announcement got here after a wave of recent media protection targeted on her often-friendly electronic mail exchanges with Epstein.
Leon Black, chairman and chief govt officer of Apollo World Administration LLC, on the annual Milken Institute World Convention in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., on Monday, April 27, 2015.
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Black’s spokesperson mentioned, “Mr. Black paid Epstein for tax and property planning work and he had no consciousness of Epstein’s legal exercise.”
“He seems to be ahead to answering the committee’s questions, offering further readability and furthering their work,” the spokesperson mentioned.
Earlier Tuesday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick voluntarily agreed to testify to the Oversight Committee about his connection to Epstein, the panel’s chairman, Kentucky Republican Rep. James Comer, mentioned.
Lutnick, who had been a neighbor of Epstein in New York, admitted in testimony final month to the Senate Appropriations Committee that he visited Epstein’s non-public island within the Caribbean along with his household in 2012.
Lutnick had beforehand claimed that he reduce off contact with Epstein years earlier than that go to.
