{"id":20256,"date":"2026-03-19T16:16:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/epsteins-lawyer-tells-house-oversight-investigators-he-had-no-knowledge-of-epsteins-crimes\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T16:16:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:16:51","slug":"epsteins-lawyer-tells-house-oversight-investigators-he-had-no-knowledge-of-epsteins-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/epsteins-lawyer-tells-house-oversight-investigators-he-had-no-knowledge-of-epsteins-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Epstein\u2019s lawyer tells House Oversight investigators he had \u2018no knowledge\u2019 of Epstein\u2019s crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Darren Indyke, Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s lawyer and a co-executor of his estate, told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that he had no knowledge of the convicted sex offender\u2019s crimes and rejected aspersions that he knowingly facilitated Epstein\u2019s trafficking, according to a copy of prepared remarks obtained by Blue Light News.<\/p>\n

The attorney\u2019s defensive posture in the closed-door deposition on Thursday comes amid mounting pressure on the Justice Department and lawmakers to pursue criminal accountability for others who could have played a role in Epstein\u2019s scheme. In his prepared opening statement, Indyke noted that he was appointed a co-executor of Epstein\u2019s estate in 2019 by the U.S. Virgin Islands probate court, has cooperated with the Justice Department, and helped found the Epstein Victims\u2019 Compensation Program.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me be clear: I had no knowledge whatsoever of Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s wrongdoings,\u201d Indyke told congressional investigators, according to the prepared remarks. \u201cMy complete lack of involvement in that misconduct is a matter of record: not a single woman has ever accused me of committing sexual abuse or witnessing sexual abuse, nor claimed at any time that she or anyone else reported to me any allegation of Mr. Epstein\u2019s abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n

He maintained that his relationship with Epstein was not social in nature and that he was only one of the lawyers with whom Epstein consulted \u2014 a list that included Kenneth Starr, the former independent counsel who investigated the fallout of Bill Clinton\u2019s affair with Monica Lewinsky.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy primary role was to provide corporate, transactional and general legal services to Mr. Epstein and his companies, and I did so,\u201d Indyke planned to say.<\/p>\n

Only one person has been convicted as part of Epstein\u2019s sex trafficking scheme: Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime associate now serving 20 years in prison for her role in the crimes. She is seeking a pardon<\/a> from President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Indyke is the latest in the Oversight committee\u2019s string of closed-door depositions with people in Epstein\u2019s orbit. Epstein\u2019s onetime client and former Victoria\u2019s Secret CEO Les Wexner<\/a> and another co-executor of Epstein\u2019s estate Richard Kahn also testified. House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) has also subpoenaed Attorney General Pam Bondi<\/a> to testify before lawmakers over her handling of the Epstein files.<\/p>\n

Unlike Wexner and Kahn, Maxwell invoked her Fifth Amendment right<\/a> when she was questioned by the Oversight committee in a virtual deposition as part of its investigation into Epstein.<\/p>\n

According to his prepared remarks, Indyke also denied any involvement in the facilitation of so-called \u201csham marriages\u201d for women around Epstein, an allegation that appeared in a complaint filed<\/a> in court by the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands. He described his onetime client as being \u201cextremely contrite\u201d after his 2008 sex crime conviction and added that he believed Epstein when he said did not know the woman was a minor.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat I did not know what my client did in his private life may be difficult for some to believe, but it is true,\u201d Indyke said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Darren Indyke, Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s lawyer and a co-executor of his estate, told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that he had no knowledge of the convicted sex offender\u2019s crimes and rejected aspersions that he knowingly facilitated Epstein\u2019s trafficking, according to a copy of prepared remarks obtained by Blue Light News. The attorney\u2019s defensive posture […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}