The whistleblower who reported Howard Lutnick's ties to Jeffrey Epstein to Congress was found dead.
Simon Andriesz, a British former Wall Street Banker who once worked for Lutnick, died by suicide, reported The Banker. He was 57 years old.
Andriesz exposed the extent of Lutnick's relationship with Epstein earlier this year after sharing a 2018 email chain with the House Oversight Committee in which Lutnick and Epstein discussed Adfin, a digital advertising company they both invested in. The whistleblower found the email chain by searching the Justice Department's release of millions of files related to the disgraced financier for "HWL," Lutnick's initials, knowing from his time at BGC Partners, a financial brokerage firm where Lutnick served as the CEO, that executives preferred to use initials in emails, he told the BBC in July.
The email chain and other materials in the Epstein files contradicted Lutnick's previous statements about his relationship with the pedophile.
The commerce secretary told the New York Post last year that he first met Epstein in 2005 after he and his wife moved next door to him, but stated that he cut off contact after being creeped out by the massage room in Epstein's Manhattan townhome.
However, the email chain reveals that Lutnick and Epstein kept in contact until at least 2018, a decade after...
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