Honestly, Howard Lutnick belongs in prison.
We are not a serious country when people like him are in the White House.
The whistleblower who told the FBI that Howard Lutnick was laundering money through Cantor Fitzgerald lost his case against Lutnick in August of this year, and died in September....just weeks later. The court never ruled on whether he was right. Instead, it threw the case out because he filed it too late, and then Lutnick and BGC asked the court to make him pay their legal fees.
His name was Simon Andriesz. He was a managing director at BGC, the Cantor Fitzgerald brokerage Lutnick ran. The FBI filed his money laundering complaint in its Epstein case file, where it sat until the files were released this year.
2015 to 2016: He raised complaints about accounting irregularities. BGC suspended him twice and ordered him to undergo medical exams.
January 2017: BGC fired him.
2019: The CFTC fined BGC $3 million for supervision and recordkeeping failures. He said his tip led to it.
October 2020: He called the FBI and reported money laundering, fraud and Lutnick's links to Epstein. The FBI's complaint form is titled "Alleged Money Laundering by Howard Lutnick via BGC Financial and Cantor Fitzgerald."
November 2020: BGC opened an investigation into its own UK tax adviser and a senior London broker. A UK court later found they stole about £23.5 million, mostly money owed to UK tax authorities, between 2015 and 2020.
January 2025: While Lutnick was being vetted for Commerce Secretary, an FBI memo said the Bureau "did not open an investigation" into his allegations.
2026: He searched the Epstein files for "HWL," Lutnick's initials, and found 2018 emails between Lutnick and Epstein about a company they both invested in. House Oversight used them when it questioned Lutnick in May.
August 11, 2026: A UK tribunal threw out his case against BGC and Lutnick personally because it was filed years after the deadline. He argued that trauma kept him from filing sooner, and the judge rejected that. A hearing was set for November 24 on whether he should pay their legal costs.
Late September 2026: He died at a trauma treatment centre in the UK at 57. People close to him say he took his own life but no coroner's finding has been released.
Simon Andriesz spent nine years telling regulators, the FBI and Congress what he saw inside Lutnick's company. Some of it turned out to be true, some of it was never checked, and the man who could have told us which was which is gone....