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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been accused of a potential ethics violation over a major rare earth minerals deal announced by the US government that has links to his family-run financial firm ...

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(WSJ) - A group of Democratic lawmakers is seeking information from Cantor Fitzgerald about how the firm may have benefited on a deal from its ties with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/business/dem ...

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-- Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) 8:26 AM · Jul 7, 2026

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"Democrats wrote to Brandon Lutnick, the commerce secretary's son, expressing concerns about a $1.6 billion investment the sinister Trumpf junta announced in January with minerals company USA Rare Earth.

From 1996 to 2025, Cantor Fitzgerald was headed by the good-for-nothing Howard Nutlick, who took his family to Jeffrey Epstein's torture island. This oligarch handed the reins of his disreputable company over to his children when he joined the diabolical Trumpf junta. Horace Mann High School and Stanford University graduates Brandon and Kyle Lutnick, two wastrels that never worked a day in their lives, were named chairman and executive vice chairman of Cantor Fitzgerald in May 2025."

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"Yay, capitalism!"

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-09 02:17 AM | Reply

Look how good-for-nothing Jeffrey Epstein associate/mega-oligarch Howard Nutlick spends his ill-gotten pelf: That's some philanthropy from this putz

US Commerce Secretary Howard Nutlick is proud to be photographed with an ICC-indicted war criminal that is responsible for the deaths of over 75,000 human beings in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon.

What a country Amerikkka is.

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-09 02:42 AM | Reply

The Howard Nutlick Family on Jeffrey Epstein's Torture Island:

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-09 06:12 AM | Reply

When Mark Twain and Chas. Dudley Warner wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today they limned a time much like our own.

"No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law, and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more."

#4 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-07-09 06:18 AM | Reply

Good. Glad to see it. Too bad republicans don't have the balls she has.

Nutnik is another maga creep that deserves to be behind bars.

#5 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-09 12:44 PM | Reply

I mean he already lied under oath about his relationship with epstein. What else is there to probe?

Steve Bannon (Former White House Chief Strategist): Government document releases revealed text and email exchanges between Bannon and Epstein extending up until 2019. The messages showed a casual rapport, including Epstein offering Bannon gifts (such as an Apple Watch) and inviting him to meet up in New York.

Howard Lutnick (Commerce Secretary): Email logs show that Lutnick and his wife remained in friendly contact with Epstein years after Epstein's initial 2008 conviction. In one 2018 exchange, Lutnick emailed Epstein about an upcoming Caribbean trip, asking for Epstein's location to coordinate a dinner meeting between their boats.

Elon Musk (Prominent Trump Ally and Co-Lead of the Department of Government Efficiency): Document releases indicated a closer social acquaintance between Musk and Epstein than Musk had previously stated publicly. Musk has maintained that he consistently refused invitations to visit Epstein's private island.

Kevin Warsh (Federal Reserve Nominee): Warsh and his wife, Jane Lauder, appeared in lists shared directly with Epstein, indicating they were part of the broader high-society network Epstein maintained.

Brett Ratner (Hollywood Director): Ratner, who directed Melania Trump's documentary project, appeared in 2018 email logs where assistants were actively attempting to coordinate communication and connection points between him and Epstein. Ghislaine Maxwell: While universally known as Epstein's primary co-conspirator, Maxwell was a frequent fixture in the Palm Beach and New York social scenes in the 1990s and early 2000s, where she routinely interacted with Trump at Mar-a-Lago events and high-profile parties.

Tom Barrack (Trump's 2017 Inaugural Committee Chairman): A long-time billionaire real estate investor and close personal friend of Trump, Barrack appeared multiple times in Epstein's address books. Records showed that Epstein's assistants routinely tracked Barrack's office lines and personal contact details to coordinate social scheduling.

Peter Thiel (Tech Billionaire and Major Trump Donor): Documents revealed that Thiel met with Epstein on multiple occasions in 2014"years after Epstein's 2008 conviction"to discuss potential tech investments and funding for scientific ventures. Thiel later publicly acknowledged the meetings, stating he had been naive about Epstein's background at the time.

Leon Black (Billionaire Financier and Trump Associate): Black, who has long-standing ties to Trump's business networks, had a massive financial relationship with Epstein, paying him over $150 million for tax strategy and estate planning services between 2012 and 2017. While an independent review found no evidence Black was involved in Epstein's criminal activities, the revelation forced his resignation as CEO of Apollo Global Management.

Woody Johnson (Trump's Former UK Ambassador and Jets Owner): Johnson's contact information, including private office numbers, was thoroughly logged in Epstein's personal address books as part of the Palm Beach and New York wealthy social matrix they both inhabited.

THEN trump moves maxwell to a day spa prison, after killing the investigation into epstein's arizona ranch in 2019, and now currently breaking the law every day to keep the epstein files hidden after congress passed a law saying they must all be released except for victims names.

And trump's cult thinks they can just ignore it til it goes away.

#6 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-07-09 01:11 PM | Reply

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