James Comer Rips Leon Black Over Epstein Stonewalling (7/27/26)

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer tore into Leon Black for what he described as a bad-faith effort to obstruct Congress’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. After Black refused to answer questions during his voluntary interview about nondisclosure agreements involving women, Comer subpoenaed him to return for a sworn deposition and ordered him to produce the agreements. Black subsequently turned over only one NDA, involving former model Guzel Ganieva, prompting Comer to accuse him of withholding material the committee had specifically demanded. Comer warned that Black’s refusal to provide complete answers and documents could lead to contempt proceedings and a criminal referral, making clear that the billionaire would not be permitted to dictate which parts of his Epstein relationship Congress was allowed to examine.




Comer emphasized that the NDAs were not a side issue because investigators wanted to know whether Epstein helped negotiate the agreements, participated in payments to women or possessed information that could explain the extraordinary financial relationship between the two men. Black paid Epstein approximately $158 million for tax and estate-planning services and later paid $62.5 million to resolve potential claims brought by the U.S. Virgin Islands. Black’s attorney insisted he had complied and claimed the Ganieva agreement was the only relevant NDA Epstein knew about, but Comer plainly was not buying that explanation. His response amounted to a direct accusation that Black had stonewalled the committee, provided an incomplete production and continued hiding behind lawyers and confidentiality agreements rather than giving Congress and Epstein’s survivors the transparency they had been promised.



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