House Oversight Chairman James Comer threatened Leon Black with contempt of Congress in a nine-page letter dated 18 August and released the following day. “If Mr. Black refuses to provide the Committee with responsive documents or refuses to appear for his scheduled deposition on September 3, 2026, the Committee will use all tools at its disposal, including contempt,” Comer wrote. He wants the confidentiality agreements Black signed with women.
What Black paid Epstein sits on the wires.
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Black sent $61 million into a company Jeffrey Epstein controlled in the U.S. Virgin Islands, across nine payments between December 2013 and April 2017. Deutsche Bank handed those wires to federal prosecutors in Manhattan, each with its own number. Southern Trust Company Inc., the receiving company, held a territorial grant that kept 90 percent of its income out of tax. The islands granted it for genetics research.
