{"id":22395,"date":"2026-05-08T02:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/lutnick-admits-to-having-prolonged-ties-to-epstein-in-closed-door-interview-3\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T02:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:22:16","slug":"lutnick-admits-to-having-prolonged-ties-to-epstein-in-closed-door-interview-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/lutnick-admits-to-having-prolonged-ties-to-epstein-in-closed-door-interview-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Lutnick admits to having prolonged ties to Epstein in closed-door interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commerce Secretary sat for a transcribed interview with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee as part of the panel&rsquo;s Jeffrey Epstein investigation&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/05\/06\/howard-lutnick-commerce-epstein-00908865\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commerce Secretary sat for a transcribed interview with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee as part of the panel&rsquo;s Jeffrey Epstein investigation&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22395","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=22395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}