Billionaire Les Wexner to testify earlier than Congress about ties to Epstein

[ad_1] The previous boss of the Victoria’s Secret lingerie model, Les Wexner, has offered an announcement to Congress saying “I've performed nothing flawed and don't have anything to cover,” as he testifies on Wednesday earlier than a congressional committee in relation to his previous ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Wexner is considered one of a number of Epstein associates subpoenaed to testify earlier than the Home oversight committee of their continued investigation of the late financier’s crimes.

In his assertion, offered by his group, Wexner referred to as himself “naïve, silly, and gullible to place any belief in Jeffrey Epstein. He was a con man,” and added: “I utterly and irrevocably minimize ties with Epstein almost twenty years in the past after I discovered that he was an abuser, a criminal, and a liar.”

The style magnate employed Epstein in 1991 to handle his cash. Wexner has insisted that he minimize ties with Epstein in 2007, earlier than Epstein pleaded responsible to Florida state-level prostitution expenses in 2008, and claimed that Epstein “misappropriated” $46m of his belongings.

The Wall Avenue Journal reported in 2019 that Wexner was integral to Epstein’s success in finance, with Epstein reportedly incomes $200m from the deal.

Wexner is amongst a number of folks with shut ties to Epstein to whom Congress has issued subpoenas. Ghislaine Maxwell, who's serving a 20-year jail sentence for serving to visitors teen ladies for Epstein, refused to reply questions throughout her deposition final week.

Maxwell’s legal professional, David Oscar Markus, mentioned in an announcement that she invoked her proper to stay silent due to her ongoing authorized battle towards her conviction and claimed Maxwell “is ready to talk absolutely and truthfully if granted clemency by President Trump”.

The oversight committee additionally subpoenaed Invoice and Hillary Clinton. The previous president has mentioned publicly that he flew on Epstein’s airplane within the early 2000s for humanitarian work, however insisted he by no means visited Epstein’s personal island.

The Epstein Recordsdata Transparency Act, handed by Congress in November of final yr, mandated that the justice division launch all investigative information into Epstein inside 30 days. To this point it has launched a number of tranches of paperwork, and a sprawling 3.5m web page launch on 30 January, however transparency advocates have insisted that probably thousands and thousands of pages stay undisclosed.