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Howard Lutnick
Howard William Lutnick is an American businessman and government official who has served as the 41st United States secretary of commerce since 2025.
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business · American businessman and government official (born 1961) · businessperson · trader · also Howard Lutnick, Howard William Lutnick, Howard W. Lutnick, Howard Nutlick, Lutnick
Born 14 July 1961 · Q16194176
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Hearing To Examine A Broadband Deployment Funding Review At The Department of Commerce - February 10, 2026
President Trump Participates in a Ceremonial Swearing In of Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick
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2026· 10 entries
Yahoo Finance: Howard Lutnick Says Trump's Auto Tariffs Are Bringing Thousands of Jobs Into the US: 'Ford Is Going To Rock…'
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CNBC: Apple's Tim Cook joined by Howard Lutnick in opening Houston manufacturing plant
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Fox Business: Ford’s US manufacturing expansion to bring ‘thousands and thousands of jobs,’ Lutnick says
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The Wall Street Journal: Howard Lutnick
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Yahoo: ‘This Is a Sh*tty Deal. You’re an Idiot’: Scott Bessent Reportedly Fumed at Howard Lutnick in Front of Trump
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Lutnick testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee on his relationship with Epstein
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2025· 8 entries
Yahoo: Howard Lutnick Rips Jeffrey Epstein Pals as ‘Participants’ — Changes Subject When Asked If Trump Knew He Was a Pervert
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Claimed: “Tariffs are “going to pay off our deficit.”” — rated False by PolitiFact.
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Awarded Time 100 (2025).
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Lutnick was confirmed by the Senate in a 51–45 vote
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Where he promoted tariffs and vowed greater action on China and its advances in artificial intelligence, particularly the release of DeepSeek R1
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Lutnick was one of the donors who funded the White House's East Wing demolition, and planned building of a ballroom
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Career landmark: United States Secretary of Commerce (2025).
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Was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time
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2024· 2 entries
Insider: Howard Lutnick helped build Newmark into a real estate powerhouse. Now he's leaving for Washington.
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Trump selected Lutnick as his nominee for secretary of commerce
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2019· 1 entry
And 2023, he borrowed more than US$100 million from Bank of America
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2017· 1 entry
The two men discussed plans about the construction of a building across the street from both of their homes
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2016· 1 entry
Lutnick was a fundraiser for Donald Trump's 2020 and 2024 presidential campaigns and a vocal proponent of Trump's tariff proposals
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2008· 1 entry
Lutnick appeared on The Celebrity Apprentice, hosted by Donald Trump in a charity auction
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2005· 1 entry
That he would never be in the same room ever again with him due to his "disgusting" behavior at a meeting with Epstein, Lutnick, and Lutnick's wife
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2001· 4 entries
Cantor Fitzgerald was headquartered in the North Tower of the World Trade Center
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Awarded Financial Times Person of the Year (2001).
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“We would never, ever be associated with a company that has anything to do with jihad. And it disgusts me. Tether will seize any amount of coin in illicit activity.”
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“You can argue all you want and discuss it, but when the boss says this is what we’re going to do, do you have a problem doing what the boss says they’re going to do? You always have two choices. You can quit or you can execute the plan.”
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1998· 1 entry
Lutnick purchased a Manhattan property at 11 East 71st Street, behind the Henry Clay Frick House, from the Comet Trust
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1995· 1 entry
Lutnick became involved in a contentious legal battle with Cantor's wife, Iris, over succession plans, filing suit in Delaware court claiming Cantor lacked sufficient mental capacity to make decisions
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1991· 1 entry
After a failed attempt by Cantor Fitzgerald's president to oust him, Lutnick became the firm's chief executive and president
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1990· 2 entries
Cantor began undergoing kidney dialysis, and in December 1995, he was hospitalized in New York
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Lutnick became president and chief executive of Cantor Fitzgerald
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1983· 2 entries
Lutnick was hired at Cantor Fitzgerald under the mentorship of the firm's founder, B
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Cantor took Lutnick as his protégé and hired him at his eponymous firm, Cantor Fitzgerald, encouraged by Rod Fisher, a partner at the firm and Cantor's nephew
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1961· 1 entry
Born 1961-07-14.
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