Billionaire who paid Epstein millions slaps top investigator with suit as Dems win gavel

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A billionaire who spent years paying Jeffrey Epstein has gone after a congressman who publicly tied him to the abuse of women. Leon Black , the co-founder of private equity giant Apollo Global Management, filed a federal defamation lawsuit Wednesday against Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the Associated Press reported . The complaint, lodged in the Southern District of New York, seeks a jury trial and $7.25 million in damages. At issue are remarks Garcia made in a TV appearance weeks after Black sat for a voluntary June interview with the House Oversight Committee, where Black insisted he knew…

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