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华盛顿 — 众议院监督委员会以41票全票通过一项提议，建议认定亿万富翁投资者莱昂·布莱克藐视国会，因其在针对已故杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的调查中拒不配合国会传票。
布莱克是这名已定罪性犯罪者的前商业伙伴，未遵照传票要求于9月3日出席委员会听证会并提交保密协议相关材料。布莱克目前已在法院对传票提出质疑，其律师称认定其藐视国会的举动“完全令人发指”。
这项藐视国会决议现已提交至众议院全院，等待投票决定是否建议司法部对其提起可能的公诉。是否提起公诉的最终决定权在司法部手中。
目前尚不清楚众议院何时就该事项进行投票。众议院将于选举日后恢复议事，本周是其本届会期最后一周。
该委员会主席、肯塔基州共和党众议员詹姆斯·科默此前发出传票。此前，阿波罗全球管理公司联合创始人布莱克在6月一场闭门自愿转录采访中，拒绝回答有关保密协议的问题，并中途离场。
布莱克曾聘请爱泼斯坦担任财富管理顾问，向其支付巨额费用以获取税务和遗产规划服务。根据去年公布的电子邮件，布莱克还据称曾向爱泼斯坦倾诉私人事务，包括曾以签订保密协议方式了结的婚外情。
布莱克在6月向议员们表示，他于上世纪90年代结识爱泼斯坦，并于2013年开始付费聘请其提供财富管理咨询。他称自己对聘用爱泼斯坦一事感到后悔，表示这名金融家多次撒谎，“ falsely claimed to have been involved in decisions about investments.”（曾 falsely声称曾参与投资决策）。布莱克的律师今年夏天曾表示，这名私募股权巨头并不知晓爱泼斯坦的罪行，并称爱泼斯坦“从未参与任何保密协议，无论此类协议是否存在”。他的法律团队周二还补充称，布莱克“从未强迫任何女性签署保密协议”。
布莱克并未在9月出席委员会听证会，而是向华盛顿联邦法院提起诉讼，质疑传票的合法性。他辩称，传票与委员会的立法目的“没有合理关联”，提交保密协议材料将侵犯“与爱泼斯坦无已知或公开关联”的女性的隐私。
科默在一份声明中表示，布莱克“选择借助诉讼逃避责任”。
委员会最高民主党议员、加州众议员罗伯特·加西亚表示，他“强烈”支持认定布莱克藐视国会的举措。
在投票前的信函中，布莱克的律师敦促委员会推迟审议该决议，等待法院就布莱克的诉讼作出裁决，同时等待国会道德办公室有足够时间审查他们计划提交的一份投诉，该投诉涉及科默在证词相关事宜上的行为。
“这分明是报复——毫不掩饰，”律师苏珊·埃斯特里奇和亚伦·卡特勒在一份声明中表示。“我们有权起诉科默主席和委员会，因为所发出的传票是非法、不当的，属于典型的权力滥用，旨在恐吓并剥夺普通公民的法律保护。”
“这场闹剧从头到尾都是为了政治和个人野心，”他们说道。
格雷厄姆·凯茨对本文亦有报道。
House Oversight Committee recommends holding Leon Black in contempt in Epstein probe
2026-09-15T17:33:00-0400 / CBS News
By Caitlin Yilek Politics Reporter
Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship with the National Press Foundation.
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Updated on: September 15, 2026 / 6:10 PM EDT / CBS News
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Washington — The House Oversight Committee voted 41-0 to recommend holding billionaire investor Leon Black in contempt of Congress for defying subpoenas as part of its investigation into the late Jeffrey Epstein.
Black, a former business associate of the convicted sex offender, did not comply with subpoenas to appear before the committee on Sept. 3 and produce nondisclosure agreements. Black is challenging the subpoenas in court, and his attorneys called the move to hold him in contempt “a complete abomination.”
The contempt resolution now advances to the full House for a vote on whether to recommend the matter to the Justice Department for possible prosecution. Any charging decisions are up to the Justice Department.
It’s unclear when the House plans to vote on the matter. It’s the House’s last week in session until after Election Day.
GOP Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the committee’s chairman, issued the subpoenas after Black, the co-founder of Apollo Global Management, abruptly left a closed-door, voluntary transcribed interview with the panel in June after refusing to answer questions about nondisclosure agreements.
Black employed Epstein as a wealth management adviser, paying him large sums of money for tax and estate planning services. Black also allegedly confided in Epstein about personal matters, including extramarital affairs that ended in nondisclosure agreements, according to emails released last year.
Black told lawmakers in June that he met Epstein in the 1990s and began paying him for wealth management advice in 2013. He has said he regrets employing Epstein, saying the financier repeatedly lied and “falsely claimed to have been involved in decisions about investments.” Black’s attorneys said over the summer the private equity titan was not aware of Epstein’s crimes, and said Epstein “had no involvement with any NDA’s, whether they exist or not.” His legal team also said Tuesday that Black “never forced any woman to sign any NDA.”
Instead of appearing before the committee in September, Black filed a lawsuit in D.C. federal court challenging the validity of the subpoenas. Black argued the subpoenas had “no legitimate connection” to the committee’s legislative purpose, and that turning over nondisclosure agreements would violate the privacy of women who have “no known or public connection to Epstein.”
Comer said in a statement that Black “has chosen to hide behind litigation.”
Rep. Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the committee, said he “strongly” supported the move to hold Black in contempt.
In letters ahead of the vote, attorneys for Black urged the committee to postpone the markup until the court has issued a ruling on Black’s lawsuit and the Office of Congressional Conduct has had time to review a complaint that they planned to submit about Comer’s conduct related to the deposition.
“This is retaliation — plain and simple,” attorneys Susan Estrich and Aaron Cutler said in a statement. “We have the constitutional right to sue Chairman Comer and the Committee because the subpoenas issued were illegitimate, illegal and a textbook abuse of power designed to bully and destroy legal protections of private citizens.”
“This entire charade is about politics and ambition,” they said.
Graham Kates contributed to this report.
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