From The Daily Beast:
The man who alerted Congress to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s ties to child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein has died. Simon Andriesz, a British former Wall Street banker who once worked under Lutnick, died by suicide at 57, The Banker reports. Andriesz, who was living in Cornwall, England, as of July, exposed the extent of Lutnick’s relationship with Epstein earlier this year when he shared a 2018 email chain with House Oversight Committee lawmakers in which Lutnick and Epstein discussed Adfin, a digital advertising company they had both invested in.
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Andriesz had found the email chain by searching the Justice Department’s release of millions of Epstein files for “HWL,” Lutnick’s initials, knowing from his years at BGC Partners, a financial brokerage firm where Lutnick was CEO, that executives preferred to use initials in emails, he told the BBC in July.