{"id":87205,"date":"2026-10-05T08:34:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T12:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87205"},"modified":"2026-10-05T08:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T12:46:11","slug":"man-who-exposed-ties-between-lutnick-and-epstein-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/man-who-exposed-ties-between-lutnick-and-epstein-found-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Who Exposed Ties Between Lutnick And Epstein Found Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From The Daily Beast:<\/em><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The man who alerted Congress t<span style=\"color: #000000;\">o Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick\u2019s ties to child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein has died.\u00a0Simon Andriesz, a British former Wall Street banker who once worked under Lutnick, died by suicide at 57, <a style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thebanker.com\/content\/02286d53-0338-42ef-996d-5f7712b9f133\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/o\/V9Afi\/https:\/\/www.thebanker.com\/content\/02286d53-0338-42ef-996d-5f7712b9f133\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Banker<\/a> reports.\u00a0Andriesz, who was <a style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c9q28dlyxrzo\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/o\/V9Afi\/https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c9q28dlyxrzo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">living in Cornwall, England, as of July<\/a>, exp<\/span>osed the extent of Lutnick\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">+<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Andriesz had found the email chain by searching the Justice Department\u2019s release of millions of Epstein files for \u201cHWL,\u201d Lutnick\u2019s 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 <a title=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c9q28dlyxrzo\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/o\/V9Afi\/https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c9q28dlyxrzo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a> in July.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Daily Beast: The man who alerted Congress to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick\u2019s ties to child sex predator Jeffrey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87205"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87212,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87205\/revisions\/87212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}