“My wife was with me, as were my four children, and nannies,” U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said of his time with Epstein in 2012. WASHINGTON ― U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick confirmed on Tuesday that he traveled to late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s private island in 2012 for lunch as part of a family vacation. “I did not have a relationship with him. I barely had anything to do with that person,” Lutnick told senators at a hearing on broadband infrastructure. Asked by Sen.