{"id":333721,"date":"2026-06-27T23:14:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T23:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/leon-black-refuses-to-answer-questions-on-ndas-at-jeffrey-epstein-hearing-rep-comer-says.html"},"modified":"2026-06-27T23:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T23:14:23","slug":"leon-black-refuses-to-answer-questions-on-ndas-at-jeffrey-epstein-hearing-rep-comer-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/leon-black-refuses-to-answer-questions-on-ndas-at-jeffrey-epstein-hearing-rep-comer-says.html","title":{"rendered":"Leon Black refuses to answer questions on NDAs at Jeffrey Epstein hearing, Rep. Comer says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-1\">Apollo Global Management<span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> CEO <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Leon Black<\/a> refused to answer questions about non-disclosure agreements he is party to during testimony about his dealings with the notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein before a House committee on Friday, the panel&#8217;s Republican chairman said.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">James Comer<\/a> of Kentucky, the chairman, said he had issued two subpoenas to Black, &#8220;one for all the NDAs that he is party to, and second for a deposition on July 16.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a result of refusing to answer specific questions about the &#8230; NDAs, and the terms,&#8221; Comer told reporters after the hearing by his House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. &#8220;We believe that information is vital to our investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will remind everyone that Mr. Black came in voluntarily, but they are refusing to disclose that, so I have issued the subpoena, and we are handing it to him as we speak,&#8221; Comer said.<\/p>\n<p>Comer earlier had told reporters that the committee was &#8220;pretty confident&#8221; Black had signed non-disclosure agreements with some of the victims. <\/p>\n<p>Black walked out of the interview after having taken a long break when he was given the subpoenas.<\/p>\n<p>In a prepared opening statement to the panel, the billionaire Black praised Epstein&#8217;s financial acumen, even as he said he had no knowledge of the late money manager&#8217;s serial sexual abuse of underage girls and young women.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Epstein solved a massive estate problem for me, that none of the experts and lawyers I consulted had been able to solve,&#8221; Black told the committee, according to a copy of his statement obtained by CNBC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a problem that would have destroyed enormous value for my family and in Apollo, the company I had founded,&#8221; Black said.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, a Virginia Democrat who sits on the committee, said, &#8220;This is the first time that someone actually walked out in the middle of [an interview], and it&#8217;s because we had very important questions about Leon Black&#8217;s past with Jeffrey Epstein.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is also the first time I heard someone gush poetically about how smart and how great Jeffrey Epstein was,&#8221;  Subramanyam said.<\/p>\n<p>Another Democrat on the panel, Rep. Yassamin Ansari of Arizona, said, &#8220;I think the fact that Leon Black left today is extremely telling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve gone through a number of these interviews, and I believe we&#8217;ve had a number of witnesses who have not been credible, who have lied to the committee over and over again, Ansari said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But today was even different than that. Leon Black was arrogant, he was smug.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Black&#8217;s lawyer, Susan Estrich, in her own comments to reporters, called the issuance of the subpoenas &#8220;a premeditated political decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to be clear, as Mr. Black said &#8230;. He never abused a woman, never was with an underage woman, he never engaged in sex traffic, he never paid Epstein for access to women, he was never blackmailed by Epstein,&#8221; Estrich said. &#8220;Mr. Black had no knowledge of any of Mr. Epstein&#8217;s heinous conduct.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Black, in his prepared opening statement, said <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Epstein<\/a> duped him out of more than $60 million in <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">financial advisory fees<\/a> by falsely claiming that they were tax-deductible.<\/p>\n<p>Black says he had no involvement in Epstein&#8217;s sex-trafficking operation and did not pay him for access to women.<\/p>\n<p>He said he was misled by Epstein&#8217;s Jekyll-and-Hyde personality, according to a prepared opening statement.<\/p>\n<p>Article source: https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/06\/26\/leon-black-jeffrey-epstein-house-oversight-committee.html<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black refused to answer questions about non-disclosure agreements he is party to during testimony about his dealings with the notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein before a House committee on Friday, the panel&#8217;s Republican chairman said. 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James Comer of Kentucky, the chairman, said he had issued two subpoenas to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-333721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}