Epstein’s accountant and attorney told a House panel that federal investigators never interviewed them.
Jeffrey Epstein’s accountant and attorney told the House Oversight Committee that federal investigators never interviewed them about the late sex offender and the work they did for him, according to videotapes of their depositions released Tuesday.
The panel questioned Richard Kahn, Epstein’s accountant, and Darren Indyke, Epstein’s attorney, behind closed doors this month as part of its investigation into Epstein. Both have maintained that they saw nothing wrong, and authorities have never suspected anything.
Kahn and Indyke’s testimony that federal investigators never interviewed them raises questions about the depth of the Justice Department’s review of Epstein, which the Justice Department and the FBI called “exhaustive” in an unsigned joint memo in July announcing that the government would not disclose additional material to the disgraced financier.
The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday night about Kahn and Indyke’s testimony, and did not respond to questions about why federal investigators had not interviewed the two people who worked for him for years.
An attorney for Kahn and Indyke did not provide further details about their testimony.
The Justice Department has released more than 3 million files – most of them redacted – while withholding nearly as many, citing victim protection, disclosure of child sexual abuse, disclosure of violence, recidivism, the right to an attorney and other reasons.
The Justice Department was then forced to release all of its files on Epstein after the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act was passed following a sharp backlash over the Trump administration’s handling of the files.
The Justice Department first became involved in investigating Epstein nearly 20 years ago before federal prosecutors negotiated a 2008 non-prosecution agreement with him. He was arrested in 2019 on charges of sex trafficking and died in his cell while awaiting trial.
Kahn said in his statement that he “has never been questioned by any government authority” but received subpoenas from the Southern District of New York and the US Virgin Islands Department of Justice requesting Epstein’s will and 1953 trust. He also said that the estate received a subpoena from the Housing Committee. Indyke added that he had given two other depositions earlier this month, in two cases connected to Epstein’s estate.
Asked if any law enforcement agencies had ever contacted him about Epstein or co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, Indyke told the House panel, “I don’t think I was.”
When asked later if he was surprised he wasn’t questioned by law enforcement, Indyke said no, “given my role — in my role as Mr. Epstein’s attorney.”
Kahn and Indyke were also asked if they considered leaving their jobs with Epstein after he pleaded guilty in 2008 to child solicitation. Kahn said he considered it, “without question,” but ultimately decided to stay because “we were in the middle of a financial crisis, and I had a family to support.”
Kahn said he believed Epstein when Epstein told him “this will never happen again.”
Indyke said he never considered quitting his job, adding that he was “drinking the Kool-Aid at the time.”
