A whistleblower unveils exclusive allegations about Lutnick and Epstein’s business ties.
In an exclusive investigation, a whistleblower has told the BBC how he unearthed evidence suggesting that US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick failed to disclose a business relationship with the paedophile financier, Jeffrey Epstein.
Simon Andriesz was a trader at one of Lutnick’s Wall Street firms, but it wasn’t until the Epstein files were released earlier this year that he says he confirmed a longstanding suspicion that his boss was misrepresenting his relationship with Epstein.
BBC financial investigations correspondent Andy Verity joins us to unpack the new investigation.
Word of the day:
Pedophocracy
Etymology
From pedophile + -o- + -cracy. Coined by David McGowan in his 2001 book by that name.
Noun
pedophocracy (plural pedophocracies)
A social structure that enables pedophilia among the powerful and provides mechanisms for keeping it secret.
