Bill Gates, Goldman Sachs’ Ruemmler will testify
FILE PHOTO: White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler listens to President Barack Obama speak at the installation ceremony for FBI Director James Comey at FBI Headquarters in Washington, Monday, October 28, 2013.
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The House committee investigating notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Tuesday night. Microsoft founder Bill Gates Goldman Sachs‘ top lawyer Kathryn Ruemmler, billionaires Leon Black and Ted Waittand three others will testify about their dealings with Epstein.
Gates, Ruemmler, and Black immediately agreed to voluntarily participate in written interviews. House Oversight Committee.
The panel is also seeking testimony from Doug Band, former assistant to former President Bill Clinton, Lesley Groff, Epstein’s former executive assistant, and Sarah Kellen, another former assistant to Epstein.
Bill Gates speaks to Reuters during an interview in New York, United States, on May 8, 2025.
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“Gates welcomes the opportunity to appear before the Committee,” a spokesman for Gates said.
“Although he did not witness or participate in any illegal conduct by Epstein, he looks forward to answering all of the committee’s questions in support of its important work,” the spokesperson said.
“Ms. Ruemmler welcomes the opportunity to appear before the Committee,” Ruemmler’s spokesman said.
“At the time she interacted with Jeffrey Epstein, she was working as a criminal defense attorney and sharing a client with him,” said her spokeswoman, Jennifer Connelly. “He did nothing wrong and had no knowledge of any ongoing criminal activity.”
The House Oversight Committee’s request that Ruemmler voluntarily appear before the panel comes about three weeks after Ruemmler said he would leave Goldman Sachs at the end of June.
Ruemmler’s announcement follows new media reports focusing on friendly email exchanges with Epstein.
Leon Black, president and chief executive officer of Apollo Global Management LLC, at the annual Milken Institute Global Conference on Monday, April 27, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
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“Mr. Black paid Epstein for tax and estate planning work and was unaware of Epstein’s criminal activities,” Black’s spokesman said.
“He looks forward to answering the committee’s questions, providing greater clarity and advancing its work,” the spokesman said.
Kentucky Republican Rep. James Comer, the panel’s chairman, said earlier Tuesday that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has voluntarily agreed to testify to the Oversight Committee about his connection to Epstein.
Lutnick, who is Epstein’s neighbor in New York, admitted in testimony to the Senate Appropriations Committee last month that he visited Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean with his family in 2012.
Lutnick had previously claimed that he had cut off contact with Epstein years before this visit.
