A Democratic member of the congressional committee investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s connections has claimed that the child predator’s personal accountant testified that an accuser of Donald Trump was paid out by the Epstein estate.
The claim was later challenged by a spokesperson for James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, who led the hearing, claiming that the accountant had not said that.
Richard Kahn was the latest person to be hauled in for a grilling behind closed doors in the committee’s probe into the late convicted sex offender.
The accountant worked closely with Epstein for more than a decade, but somehow has not been a central figure for those investigating the pedophile until now.
Details on Kahn’s hours of deposition, like those before him, will be released at a later date, but Democratic Virginia lawmaker Suhas Subramanyam shared his own notes from the closed-door session on X.
One of his notes read: “A Trump accuser has received $ from the survivor fund managed by Kahn.”
The lawmaker did not provide further details in the post.
Subramanyam expanded only slightly more on his takeaways when he spoke to reporters waiting in the hallway outside about two hours into the deposition on Capitol Hill.
“Another person who was an accuser of Donald Trump was given a settlement by Jeffrey Epstein’s estate. We did confirm that,” he said.
The Democratic lawmaker was not much more forthcoming when pressed for details: “We wanted to confirm that certain accusers had received settlements, and he confirmed that.”
He told reporters they would wait for the transcript to be released. Subramanyam has not replied to the Daily Beast’s request for comment and has not taken down his social media post.
In a statement to the Daily Beast, a spokesperson for Comer said: “Earlier testimony from Kahn about the Trump accuser receiving a settlement from the Epstein estate is incorrect.
“When the Democrats asked about Jane Doe 4, they were talking about someone else. Kahn’s attorneys went back on the record to clarify that the person the Dems thought was Jane Doe 4 was not an individual they had ever heard of.”
In a post on X, the House Oversight Committee wrote: “It’s been over 17 hours since part of this tweet was debunked, and @RepSuhas has not corrected the record or deleted it. It’s typical for Democrats to provide false information to the public and never retract it.”
Subramanyam also revealed on Wednesday that Khan mentioned five men who paid for Epstein’s enterprise: billionaire businessman Les Wexner, hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin, investor Steven Sinofsky, the Rothschilds, a wealthy banking family, and private equity investor Leon Black.
The congressman noted that Kahn mentioned former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, a previously known Epstein associate, when he asked the accountant about heads of state or elected officials with financial ties to Epstein.
“Guys like Kahn enable billionaires like Epstein to get away with crimes the other 99.9% of Americans couldn’t,” Subramanyam wrote in his post.
Committee Chairman James Comer confirmed some of Subramanyam‘s account of the deposition when he gave reporters his own update in the hallway on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
The Kentucky Republican said that Kahn was answering all their questions and confirmed the names of five men who were paying Epstein.
“What Kahn said is he was under the impression that Epstein made his money as a tax advisor and a financial planner,” Comer said. “So these were the five people who transferred significant sums of money to Epstein.”
Comer was quick to note that Kahn testified he had never seen any transaction involving Trump or his family.
At least one woman accused Trump of sexually abusing her when she was just 13-years-old and was interviewed by the FBI four times.
Those interviews were initially kept secret by the Justice Department, which released further details on the case only after it was revealed they were sitting on files.
In her account to the FBI, the woman claimed Trump forced her to commit a sex act on him sometime around 1984 after she was recruited by Epstein.
She said Epstein, who was Trump’s friend, began abusing her and trafficked her to several men when she was between 13 and 15 years old after he responded to an advertisement for babysitting services her mother, who was a real estate agent in South Carolina, placed in a packet she provided to her clients.
Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein. The White House called the accusations by the accuser “completely baseless.”
