One of the co-executors of Jeffrey Epstein’s estate testified before a congressional panel on Wednesday that the deceased sex criminal had at least five wealthy clients that paid him for various financial services.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) told reporters Richard Kahn confirmed former Victoria’s Secret CEO Les Wexner, investor Leon Black, hedge fund manager Glen Dubin, businessman Steven Sinofsky and the Rothschild family were all patrons of Epstein’s services.
“What Kahn said is he was under the impression that Epstein made his money as a tax adviser and a financial planner,” Comer said, adding that “he had never seen any type of transaction to Trump or anyone in his family.”
Witness Richard Kahn reportedly told the House Oversight Committee that Jeffrey Epstein had at least five wealthy clients who retained him for financial services. REUTERS Kahn also reportedly testified he never saw any transactions related to Trump. DOJ Kahn is the fifth witness in the Oversight Committee’s investigation to have exonerated President Trump of any wrongdoing related to Epstein — joining Wexner, former President Bill Clinton, ex-Labor Secretary and South Florida US Attorney Alex Acosta as well as former Attorney General Bill Barr.
In an opening statement, Kahn told Oversight panel members and staff that he was “not aware of the nature or extent of Epstein’s abuse of so many women until after Epstein’s death.”
The accountant also testified that Epstein said his 2008 guilty plea in Florida to soliciting a minor for prostitution was “a mistake, that he did not know the woman was underage, and that nothing like that would happen again.”
“I believed him at the time and never saw what appeared to be a minor in his presence,” Kahn added. “Had I learned of any of his horrific behavior, I would have quit work immediately.”
Kahn also rejected that gifts the disgraced financier gave others were “red flags for abuse or trafficking” and that Epstein’s holding of lucrative assets in limited liability companies was “completely standard practice.”
Epstein, 66, was found dead in a Manhattan jail cell on Aug. 10, 2019, in what investigators later ruled a suicide. He had been charged with counts related to sex trafficking — including some girls as young as 14 years old.
His accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell was charged for conspiring with him and convicted years later to serve a 20-year sentence.
The Department of Justice has released more than 3 million pages of investigative materials concerning the pair’s cases, stretching back to a federal non-prosecution agreement reached with the feds in 2007 that had him plead guilty to two state counts.
Epstein served just 13 months in a Florida prison, most of which in a work release program.
Kahn in his testimony before the Oversight Committee noted that after the financier’s death he helped set up an Epstein Victims Compensation Fund that ended up paying sums to more than 130 women “in a confidential manner.”
The accountant also helped settle an additional 60 claims from Epstein survivors.
“For this work, I have been the subject of attacks by plaintiffs’ lawyers and have had my reputation dragged through the mud,” Kahn said in his prepared statement. “It has taken a tremendous toll on my family.”
“But I continued to serve as co-executor because I believe it is the right thing to do.”
Black, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Goldman Sachs’ top lawyer Kathryn Ruemmler, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, ex-Bill Clinton aide Doug Band, billionaire philanthropist Ted Waitt, and Epstein assistants Lesley Groff and Sarah Kellen have also been requested for Oversight interviews.
