Simon Andriesz

Simon Andriesz was a British financial-markets professional who worked for BGC Group (called BGC Partners in the BBC's account), part of the Cantor Fitzgerald group, and who told the Federal Bureau of Investigation in October 2020, according to an FBI complaint form, that he believed he had supporting documents which could link the firms' chief executive, Howard Lutnick, to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. In July 2026 he told the BBC that he had found a 2018 email exchange between Epstein and an address labeled "HWL" about the company AdFin Solutions. The Banker reported on October 2, 2026 that he had died at the age of 57.¹²³⁴

Career as described by named sources

The Banker described him as a "former British banker" who "spent more than 35 years working in financial markets" and who "was previously a managing director at Wall Street firm BGC Group where Lutnick, now the US commerce secretary, was chief executive officer."¹ The BBC wrote that he was "previously a managing director at a Wall Street firm," that he worked for "BGC Partners," that in 2016 he "had raised concerns internally about accounting irregularities at the firm," and that he "was sacked in 2017." The BBC reported that he lived in a Cornish seaside village.⁵ The Transparency Task Force wrote that he "spent 35 years in the securities industry."⁶ A compilation of FBI Guardian complaints records "Andriesz, calling from the United Kingdom, previously worked for BGC Financial (BGC) and Can[tor Fitzgerald]," and the FBI complaint form of 2021 records the caller as "responsible for reviewing, reporting, and compliance for all of North America."²⁷

BGC told the BBC that his allegations "lacked credibility" and were "categorically false," that the claims had been investigated by authorities in several jurisdictions which, according to BGC, had not substantiated them, that it "denies retaliating against Andriesz," and that it has had no involvement with him since his departure other than responding to litigation he initiated. The BBC reported that BGC "maintains Andriesz's employment was terminated after he refused to follow medical advice, declined to perform essential job duties, rejected reasonable accommodation, and ultimately abandoned his role."⁵

The CFTC order of November 2019

On November 22, 2019 the Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced in release 8083-19 an order requiring BGC Financial, L.P. to pay a $3 million civil monetary penalty "for numerous supervision, reporting, and recordkeeping violations spanning over five years." The order finds that from at least 2014 to March 2019 BGC "failed to establish an adequate supervisory system," including failures to follow its policies on brokers' use of personal cell phones, that in 2016 BGC "lost nearly four months of voice recordings for thousands of brokered block trades," that it did not adequately disclose recordkeeping noncompliance in its 2015 and 2016 chief compliance officer reports, and that it did not notify the commission of a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation until "more than four years after BGC was aware of it and only after a $1.25 million settlement was reached."⁸

The release does not name a whistleblower. The BBC wrote that "some of his allegations later led to BGC being ordered to pay a $3m (£2.24m) penalty by the US derivatives regulator for 'numerous supervision, reporting, and record-keeping violations,'" and that he won "a financial award of $420,000 (£313,000) for his whistleblowing from the US regulator."⁵ The Transparency Task Force wrote that the commission "made him a formal whistleblower award and, in a separate enforcement action, imposed a $3 million sanction on the firm."⁶

Litigation

The BBC wrote that Andriesz "says the litigation of the past decade has had a devastating effect on his career, his finances and his health," and that BGC "says it has had no involvement with him since his departure other than responding to litigation he has initiated."⁵ The records of four proceedings name him as claimant, petitioner or appellant and BGC Financial, L.P. or BGC Partners LP as respondent.⁹

The first was an arbitration before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's Dispute Resolution Services in New York, case 19-01751. Andriesz signed the submission agreement on June 8, 2019 and filed a statement of claim on or about June 19, 2019 against fourteen respondents: BGC Financial, L.P., Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., Ronin Capital, LLC, Jean-Pierre Aubin, Stuart Andrew Fraser, Howard William Lutnick, Shawn Damien McLoughlin, Stephen Marcus Merkel, Paul Marc Pion, Louis James Scotto, William Michael Shields, John Springs Stafford III, Michael Carl Sulfaro and Mark Webster. The award records that Lutnick signed the submission agreement on October 7, 2019, the same day as Pion, and that the BGC respondents, including Lutnick, filed a statement of answer on or about September 5, 2019. An amended statement of claim filed on or about June 22, 2020 discontinued the claims against Ronin Capital, Stafford, Fraser, Lutnick, Merkel and Scotto. By order of August 8, 2022 the panel "dismissed this case without prejudice, pursuant to Rule 13601(c) of FINRA's Code of Arbitration Procedure, on the basis of all parties having jointly requested, or agreed to, more than two postponements." The award confirming the dismissal was signed in September 2022 and served September 12, 2022. The award does not itemize the claims.⁹

Andriesz filed a renewed statement of claim on or about November 8, 2022, opening FINRA case 22-02539 against BGC Financial, L.P., Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., Aubin, Pion, Shields, Sulfaro, Webster and McLoughlin. Lutnick was not among the respondents. The award lists nineteen causes of action, among them violations of the Dodd-Frank whistleblower statute, securities fraud under Rule 10b-5, breach of employment and other contracts, RICO, defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress, and records a request for compensatory damages "in a sum not less than $17,000,000." Andriesz voluntarily dismissed his claims against McLoughlin on January 19, 2024 and against Sulfaro on January 30, 2024, and withdrew four causes of action on January 19, 2024. The panel sat on January 9 to 12, 16 to 18, 24 and 25, February 8 and 9 and May 15, 2024. The award of June 17, 2024 reads: "Respondent BGC Financial, L.P., is solely liable for and shall pay to Claimant the sum of $500,000.00 in compensatory damages." It continues: "All other claims against remaining Respondents Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., Jean Pierre Aubin, Mark Webster, Paul Marc Pion, and William Michael Shields, are dismissed in their entirety," and denies all claims for relief not addressed, including interest, punitive damages and attorneys' fees. The panel assessed hearing session fees of $39,375 to BGC Financial, L.P. The award gives no reasons.¹⁰

On September 17, 2024 (the clerk having rejected an earlier filing of September 16) Andriesz filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York a petition to vacate, modify or remand the award, docket 1:24-cv-07004, before Judge Lewis J. Liman. Opinion and Order of April 23, 2025 (docket 37) records that Andriesz sought to show manifest disregard of the law and calculated his damages at $7,857,982, made up of $2,718,196 for "lost value of life," $1,157,337 in lost income for 2017 and 2018, and $3,982,449 in lost income for 2019 through 2023. BGC's brief of December 6, 2024 described the demand put to the panel as "over $38 million" in one passage and "more than $11 million" in another.¹¹¹²

On timeliness the opinion held: "Because the Award was filed on June 17, 2024, Petitioner's deadline to serve Respondent notice of his motion to vacate was September 17, 2024. ... Petitioner failed to serve Respondent by that date, and his motion is accordingly untimely." It added that the motion "may be denied on that basis alone." Counsel for Andriesz had first asked BGC's counsel to accept service on September 19, 2024, and BGC filed a waiver of service on September 24, 2024. The opinion then continued: "Even if Petitioner's motion was timely, it would still fail on the merits." On the Dodd-Frank retaliation claim the court recorded BGC's argument that the termination "could not have been causally connected to any protected activity" and that "BGC had a legitimate, non-retaliatory reason for terminating" him. It wrote that the arbitrators could have found that his failure to attend the scheduled medical evaluations represented "dishonesty, disloyalty, insubordination, unsatisfactory performance or attendance, or failure to follow BGC's policies, rules, codes of conduct, or procedures," within the contract's definition of "Cause," and that "[s]uch a finding would permit a holding of no liability for both Petitioner's breach-of-contract and whistleblower retaliation claims." On the unexplained $500,000 figure the court wrote that "[i]t is possible that notwithstanding the evidence in Respondent's favor, the arbitration panel found Respondent partially liable for Petitioner's breach-of-contract or whistleblower claims," and recorded BGC's suggestion that the sum "could represent a good-faith estimate of the bonus Petitioner would have received for the 2016 Fourth Quarter along with prejudgment interest." Andriesz had asked the court in the alternative to remand for clarification; the opinion denied the request. Its conclusion reads: "Petitioner's motion to vacate, modify, or remand the arbitration award is DENIED and the Petition is DISMISSED." The clerk entered judgment on April 24, 2025.¹¹¹²

Andriesz filed a notice of appeal on May 23, 2025 (Second Circuit docket 25-1341). The court's order of June 16, 2025 recorded that the filing fee of $605 was due by June 6, 2025, that "[t]he case is deemed in default," and that the appeal "is dismissed effective July 7, 2025" unless he paid the fee or moved for in forma pauperis status by that date. The mandate issued August 28, 2025.¹³

The opinion records the employment dispute as follows. Andriesz "was employed by Defendant from November 2014 through January 31, 2017," BGC saying his employer was its United Kingdom affiliate BGC Brokers, L.P. On or about January 21, 2015 he signed a four-year contract "as Managing Director from February 1, 2015, through February 1, 2019," at $364,000 "in the form of a draw plus $36,000 in salary," with an incentive pool tied to BGC's North American futures and options desk and its London financial futures and options desk, governed by New York law. The opinion records conflicts with his superior Aubin, a suspension in February 2016, a written warning on his return, a second indefinite suspension in December 2016 with a direction "to submit to examination by two doctors to determine if he was fit to perform the essential functions of his job," and termination on January 31, 2017. Andriesz's account, as the opinion recites it, was that he was a "stellar employee" with "no performance complaints of any kind" until he raised complaints about accounting irregularities and supervisory violations beginning in 2015, and that the suspensions and termination were retaliation; he "admits he did not submit to examination by the two doctors," arguing that the direction violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.¹¹

The health matters are stated in the opinion as follows. BGC's account, as the court recites it, was that Andriesz "was hospitalized twice," that after the first incident he "submitted a doctor's note recommending that he be placed on medical leave for several weeks," that a second note stated he "could immediately return to work part-time," and that he told BGC's human resources department he could not comply with Aubin's requests to communicate "due to the severity of [his] medical condition." The court wrote that the arbitrators "could have properly found" that "in light of Petitioner's lengthy history of medical issues requiring multiple hospitalizations and interfering with his ability to work normal hours and purported ability to communicate with his supervisor, a medical evaluation was a business necessity." On his heart attack the court recited that Andriesz "attributed his heart attack to harshly worded comments from a BGC executive," that BGC's position was that the executive's communication "post-dated Petitioner's heart attack," and that contemporaneous emails showed him "blaming his ex-wife's divorce lawyers for the heart attack." The opinion presents the medical history as evidence on which the arbitrators could have relied; the award itself gives no reasons.¹¹

Also as recited in the opinion, BGC's evidence included a recorded conversation in which Andriesz said he was going to defame his supervisor and "try and destroy their life," and testimony from a BGC employee who had sent regulators communications "purporting to corroborate some of Petitioner's claims" that Andriesz "used and manipulated" him and pressured him to send them. BGC's brief of December 6, 2024 stated that in a "January 22, 2020 sworn statement to the CFTC requesting a whistleblower award for his earlier disclosures to them," Andriesz "reported that '[s]oon after I was terminated, I immediately filed TCR's with . . . the SEC on 10.02.17,'" and that the only forms to the Securities and Exchange Commission he produced were two prepared in January 2017 that lacked his signature and date.¹¹¹⁴

The fourth proceeding is Employment Tribunal case 3200408/2025 at the East London Hearing Centre (heard by video), in which Andriesz named three respondents: BGC Partners LP, Howard Lutnick and Jean-Pierre Aubin. The gov.uk record lists the jurisdictions as disability discrimination, public interest disclosure, unfair dismissal and unlawful deduction from wages. Employment Judge B Beyzade heard the respondents' application to strike out on March 16 and May 13, 2026, on submissions and a 401-page bundle that included "regulatory correspondence, litigation materials from the United States, contractual documents, and medical materials" (paragraph 21); no oral evidence was called (paragraph 11). The written reasons are dated August 11, 2026 and were published on gov.uk on September 30, 2026.¹⁵

The reasons record the respondents' submission that "the claimant's employment terminated on 31 January 2017 and that the sole disability discrimination allegation dates from November 2016" (paragraph 23), and their submission that his "extensive litigation activity, including US arbitration and court proceedings between 2019 and 2024, demonstrates beyond argument that it was reasonably practicable to bring the claimant's complaints in time" (paragraph 25). They record Andriesz's submissions that "he has been subject to a continuing course of retaliation extending to 2024" (paragraph 28), that his "engagement with regulators, including the FCA and HMRC, forms part of the continuing course of conduct" (paragraph 31), and that "his mental health, including PTSD and trauma, impaired his ability to bring proceedings earlier" (paragraph 30). The findings are: "I find that the claimant's employment terminated on 31 January 2017" (paragraph 44); "All of the claimant's complaints were presented outside the relevant primary limitation periods" (paragraph 48); "The delay is extremely long, approaching nine years" (paragraph 53); "The explanation advanced is not persuasive in light of the Claimant's demonstrated capacity to litigate" (paragraph 54); and "The claimant's contention with regards to medical evidence does not establish that it was not reasonably practicable for the Claimant to present the relevant complaints within the relevant limitation period" (paragraph 61). The judge accepted the respondents' submission that "a number of complaints are inadequately pleaded and lack a coherent evidential basis" (paragraph 63). In the alternative the judge wrote that "[t]he Claimant has previously litigated matters arising from the same or substantially similar factual matrix in the United States of America" (paragraph 67) and that the judge "would have struck the claim out as an abuse of process" (paragraph 70). The tribunal made no finding on territorial jurisdiction (paragraphs 71 and 72). The terms of the judgment strike out "[t]he entirety of the Claimant's claim" under Rule 38(1)(a) (paragraph 82) and list the respondents' application for costs, and for a determination whether the claim was totally without merit, for a continuation hearing on November 24, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. for three hours, with written submissions due by 4 p.m. on October 23, 2026 (paragraph 83).¹⁵

A separate pair of claims, 2204781/2021 and 2201379/2022, names TFS Derivatives Ltd as respondent. A judgment of Employment Judge Mark Sutton KC sent to the parties on February 19, 2025, after a hearing on February 10, 2025 at which Andriesz did not attend, dismissed his second claim, filed March 23, 2022 for discriminatory constructive dismissal on grounds of disability, for lack of jurisdiction because it was presented a day outside the limitation period under section 123 of the Equality Act 2010, and dismissed on withdrawal a detriment complaint under section 47B of the Employment Rights Act 1996. The judgment provides that the remaining complaints in the first claim "shall proceed to a final hearing." The judgment does not mention BGC.¹⁶

The October 14, 2020 FBI complaint

At 9:16:24 a.m. Eastern Time on October 14, 2020 a caller telephoned the FBI's National Threat Operations Center to report "alleged money laundering by Howard Lutnick via BGC Financial and Cantor Fitzgerald." The FBI recorded the call on an FD-71A Guardian complaint form dated April 23, 2021 (Guardian 681124 NY), filed under a money-laundering zero file and case 50D-NY-3027571, "EPSTEIN, JEFFREY; CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING." The caller's name is redacted in that document, which was released by the United States Department of Justice as EFTA01249210.² The name "Simon Andriesz" appears in a separate release, EFTA01684300, a printout of Guardian complaints, in the line giving the call time and in the fragments "Andriesz, calling from the United Kingdom, previously worked for BGC Financial (BGC) and Can[tor Fitzgerald]" and "Andriesz uncovered fraud, money laundering, Ponzi schemes, and regulat[ory breaches]."⁷

The form records the caller as saying that he "uncovered fraud, money laundering, Ponzi schemes, and regulatory breaches" by BGC and Cantor Fitzgerald, "so he became a whistleblower," and that BGC and Cantor Fitzgerald "received large fines and there are 'live cases' still occurring in the United Kingdom." It records his statements that Lutnick was using a "global Ponzi share" scheme "involving over 3,500 BGC employees who are forced to contribute 10% of their earnings," that Lutnick was "deeply rooted to the royal family," that he used his charities as a "smokescreen," that he "believes he has supporting documents which could link Lutnick to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell," and that "Epstein also sold Lutnick a house for $10 dollars through a trust fund, which was then sold for millions shortly after prior to the money going overseas." The caller "stated he has multiple regulatory reporting documents he can provide to an agent to substantiate his claims." The form records database queries on Lutnick ("26 results in the NY division case files," including a restricted closed money-laundering case) and the note "Queries were not conducted on Epstein and Maxwell due to the sensitive nature of the case."² The BBC wrote that "the FBI did not investigate these accusations."⁵

An email dated July 24, 2025, in a chain titled "Epstein - Cellmate Interview," lists under the heading "Howard Lutnick": "Simon Andriesz reported that Lutnick made his money through Ponzi schemes and money laundering. Lutnick and Epstein were neighbors and Epstein sold Lutnick a home for $10 which was then sold for millions." The same entry appears in three further released documents, EFTA01648951, EFTA01656173 and EFTA01660622.¹⁷

A second FBI intake form, marked "UNCLASSIFIED" and dated October 19, 2020 (five days after the call of October 14), bears the same case ID, 50D-NY-3027571, and the caption "(U) EPSTEIN, JEFFREY; CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING." It records the time of a call to the National Threat Operations Center as 11:43 AM Eastern Time. The name of the person who called is redacted. The form records that the person "acted as an internal whistleblower after witnessing some financial irregularities," that he "has documentation he is willing to provide to the FBI," that he "claims that Cantor Fitzgerald retaliated against him after he was a whistleblower," and that he "has also submitted this documentation to the Internal Revenue Service." It states that he "believes some of the suspicious financial activities could be related to Epstein's case."¹⁸

An FD-302 in case 50D-NY-3027571 (serial 593) records a telephone interview on February 16, 2021, entered April 5, 2021 and drafted March 17, 2021, with an interviewee whose name is redacted throughout. It records that he "had been in the securities business for 32 years," that he "was at" a redacted firm "from 2012 to 2017," and that he "held a Series 30 license," and refers to "the fraud allegations [redacted] made in his initial complaint to the FBI." The one place where a surname appears is a sentence on the second page, in a passage on the firm's charity day: "ANDREISZ advised the day of the charity day trading would shift if the publicized day was not a successful trading day." The third page records that the interviewee "was working with the COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION (CFTC) and he was eligible for their whistleblower program," and an agent note that after the interview a redacted name "contacted SA [redacted] telephonically asked if he could provide her contact information to the CFTC." The first page carries the legend "This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI." Each page carries the legend "SUBJECT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER PARAGRAPHS 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, and 17."¹⁹

An FBI email of January 30, 2025, sent under the subject "RE: Expedite ARMS Reach - Howard William Lutnick" (followed in the subject line by the classification suffix "UNCLASSIFIED") and marked "Classification: UNCLASSIFIED" and "Transitory," in reply to a vetting request from the Enterprise Vetting Center concerning Howard Lutnick, states: "This was an intake interview related to the Guardian in serial 196 where HOWARD LUTNICK was accused of fraud and money laundering. We did not open an investigation as a result of these allegations." The email does not name the person who made the accusation.²⁰

At the House Oversight interview of May 6, 2026, a questioner said the committee understood "through public reporting and records, that an Epstein-affiliated trust had owned that townhome that you moved into prior to you" and asked whether Epstein had any role in the sale. Lutnick answered: "No. I bought my townhouse from someone ... who owned it. So Epstein did not own the house. So I don't know what that's in reference to."²¹

The BBC reporting of July 14, 2026

The BBC published a report by Andy Verity, Rob Byrne and Ben Milne on July 14, 2026, the day BBC Radio 4's File on 4 Investigates broadcast an episode titled "Epstein Files: Lutnick, the Royals and the British Whistleblower." The BBC wrote that Andriesz "discovered an email chain from 2018 in which Lutnick and Epstein had discussed the prospects of a start-up business they were both involved in." Andriesz said, "Everyone was searching 'Lutnick'"; the BBC wrote that he knew Cantor Fitzgerald executives preferred initials, searched for "HWL" and found the exchange in which Epstein asked the HWL account "what do you think the prospects for adfin are?" and the reply read "Producing revenue finally. This is their year." Andriesz gave the finding to members of the House Oversight Committee before Lutnick's May 2026 interview. The BBC reported that Lutnick told the committee that, to the best of his knowledge, he learned only in 2026 that Epstein had been an investor in the firm.³ The exchange is EFTA01050772.²²

The BBC also reported that Andriesz found in the files that one of Lutnick's firms had made plans in 2013 to go into business with the then Prince Andrew, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. Andriesz told File on 4 Investigates: "What it involved was a loan to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor of £1m... to basically buy a prince." The BBC wrote that under the proposed terms £1 million would be loaned to a firm controlled by the prince, "which would then be bound to do business exclusively with Cantor Fitzgerald," that advisers to both Lutnick and the former prince discussed the deal from August to November 2013, that Epstein warned the prince's business aide David Stern against it, and that it "came to nothing." Cantor Fitzgerald "did not deny the talks took place but told the BBC it did not go into business with the former prince."³

The BBC reported the Commerce Department's response that the allegations were "a desperate partisan distraction from the historic work of this Administration" with "no evidence of wrongdoing or legitimate cause for concern," and a White House statement on behalf of Lutnick: "The BBC's pathetic and desperate attempt to slander Secretary Lutnick will do nothing to change the fact that he has been the most consequential Commerce Secretary in modern history." It quoted Andriesz: "I'm exposing Howard Lutnick's relationship, financial links, with Jeffrey Epstein, and there's no interest."³

The Transparency Task Force event

The Transparency Task Force, a United Kingdom campaign group founded by Andy Agathangelou, held an online event on July 21, 2026 titled "The Simon Andriesz Story; and the Role of the Financial Conduct Authority." Its announcement said he would "speak publicly for the first time about the Financial Conduct Authority's alleged failure to protect him from retaliation," and quoted him: "when I repeatedly warned the FCA, including through direct written appeals to Chief Executive Nikhil Rathi and senior enforcement leaders Steve Smart and Therese Chambers, that the retaliation was escalating and that my family and I were in crisis, it took no effective action to protect me." The announcement stated that his FBI file was "now public as part of the January 2026 release under the Epstein Files Transparency Act," that HM Revenue and Customs "issued a £96 million determination concerning the same partnership tax arrangements that Mr Andriesz says he had been reporting since 2017," that the Financial Conduct Authority's response was "a Supervision Order," and that an FCA official had told him he had lost whistleblower protection, advice the announcement says the FCA later accepted was wrong and apologised for.⁶

The FBI serial index

The Justice Department's release of the serial index for case 50D-NY-3027571 (EFTA01730634, DataSet 10; the case summary describes a "Child Sex Trafficking investigation into Epstein, opened 12/08/2018" that "remains in Pending Inactive status") lists, by serial, date, time and a truncated description, the documents discussed above. On page EFTA01730652 serial 593, dated 4/5/2021 at 10:19, carries the text-layer reading "(U) SIMON ANDRIES2 02.16.2021," and serial 595, dated 4/23/2021 at 13:26, reads "NTOC2020 288hmb01 Alleged Money Laundering by Howard Lutnick via BGC Financial and Cantor Fitzgerald." The FD-302 printed "50D-NY-3027571 Serial 593" records an interview of February 16, 2021 and was entered April 5, 2021, and the Guardian form of April 23, 2021 is printed "50D-NY-3027571 Serial 595."²³²¹⁹

On page EFTA01730654 serial 530, dated 10/19/2020 at 12:52, reads "(U) On 10/19/2020, at 11:43 AM Eastern Time," followed by redactions; serial 531 of 3:03 p.m. that day reads "On 10/19/2020, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time." The intake form of October 19, 2020 (EFTA01249205) records "Date/Time Received: 10/19/2020 12:11 PM EDT" and a call "at 11:43 AM Eastern Time" to the National Threat Operations Center "to report information about Howard Lutnick." The intake does not print a serial number; its correspondence with serial 530 is by call time. The FBI email of January 30, 2025 from the Enterprise Vetting Center states that Lutnick "is listed in the following [PENDING CASE(s)]: 272-NY-0 Serial 197 and 50D-NY-3027571Serial 530," and the reply of the same day refers to "serial 195 in the 272-NY-0 subfile, not 197" and to "the Guardian in serial 196." In the index of 50D-NY-3027571, serial 197 is dated 8/2/2019 at 10:22 (page EFTA01730663) and serial 195 is dated 7/31/2019 at 16:43, both entries from the summer of 2019 concerning other matters.²³¹⁸²⁴

Death

The Banker published on October 2, 2026 an article by Chris Newlands headed "Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick's links to Epstein dies," which stated that Andriesz "has died by suicide," that he was 57, and that his death "was confirmed by Andy Agathangelou, the founder of campaign group Transparency Task Force." Agathangelou was quoted: "It is with great sadness that we share the news that Simon Andriesz, a valued member of our community, passed away last week." The article repeated the BBC's account of the 2018 email chain and Lutnick's statement that "I unequivocally condemn the conduct attributed to Jeffrey Epstein and everyone who participated in his illegal activities."¹⁴