Howard Lutnick
Howard Lutnick was taking his young son to kindergarten on the morning of the 11th of September 2001. That errand kept him out of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, where his firm, Cantor Fitzgerald, had its headquarters. His brother, Gary, was inside and did not survive. Lutnick would go on to lead the firm through that disaster, and decades later he became the 41st United States secretary of commerce. His path raises a string of questions. How did a college tennis player come to run a Wall Street brokerage? Why did his handling of the worst day in the firm's history earn him both praise and anger? And how did a lifelong Democrat who once gave money to Hillary Clinton end up helping to assemble Donald Trump's government? The answers start long before Washington, with a mentor named B. Gerald Cantor.
Howard William Lutnick was born on the 14th of July 1961 on Long Island, the second son of Solomon and Jane Lutnick. His father taught history at Queens College, part of the City University of New York. His mother, born Jane Lieberman, was a painter and sculptor who taught at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University. The family lived in Jericho, and Howard attended Jericho High School.
In February 1978, during his junior year, his mother died of lymphoma. Haverford College then recruited him as a Division III tennis player. In his first week of classes there, his father died of an overdose of a chemotherapy drug. Solomon had been treated for colon cancer that had spread to his lungs. Robert Stevens, the president of Haverford, offered to waive Howard's fees. Lutnick stayed, became captain of the tennis team, and graduated in 1983 with a degree in economics.
His first job was at Noonan, Astley & Pierce, where he brokered trades between the United States dollar and the Japanese yen. There he met B. Gerald Cantor. In 1983, Cantor took the young broker on as a protégé and hired him at Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm that bore his name. Rod Fisher, a partner and Cantor's nephew, encouraged the hire.
Within about a year and a half, Lutnick was running a division that managed the personal investments of Cantor and his associates. He brought in new clients and turned it into one of the firm's most lucrative divisions. By December 1990, he had been named Cantor's successor in the event of Cantor's death. In 1991, after the firm's president tried and failed to oust him, Lutnick became chief executive and president. The following year, Cantor turned the company into a partnership and set up a succession plan, giving up an earlier idea of leaving the firm to a charitable foundation.
Cantor had started kidney dialysis in 1990, and in December 1995 he was hospitalized in New York. Lutnick moved to put the succession plan into effect, which would make him a managing general partner. Cantor's family was shut out of the process, and its members were furious. That included his wife, Iris Cantor, whose lawyers clashed with Lutnick's. In March 1996, Lutnick and his division, CF Group Management, sued in Delaware to enforce the plan. Their argument was that Cantor lacked "sufficient mental capacity" to understand the documents he was signing. The New York Times noted that Lutnick had already lost the support he needed from the Cantors.
The partners settled in May. Lutnick kept management control, and the Cantors held a limited partnership stake. Cantor died in July. As the new chairman, Lutnick looked to broker deals with larger investment companies, among them Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch.
In September 1998, Cantor Fitzgerald began trading futures contracts on Treasury bonds and notes electronically. The system behind it was eSpeed, an electronic trading platform built with a sizable investment from the firm. It was released in March 1999. Lutnick had made technology the centerpiece of his plan for the company.
Since 1994, Cantor had also been spending heavily to build a brokering business in Europe. Lutnick launched a futures exchange called Cantor Exchange as well. It traded far fewer contracts than its competitors, including the Chicago Board of Trade.
The businessman Michael Spencer observed that eSpeed had become a dominant marketplace for Treasury securities. He added that it had not repeated that success in other markets. Even so, by September 2001 eSpeed had created four dozen marketplaces. One of them, TradeSpark, was an exchange for natural gas and electricity. After the Enron scandal, usage of TradeSpark surged.
Cantor Fitzgerald's offices filled several floors just above the point where American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower. The firm employed 960 people in New York City. All 658 who were in the office that morning died. Operations in London and New Jersey let eSpeed keep trading.
Lutnick's interviews with Connie Chung on ABC News were widely seen, and they made him nationally known. Inside the firm's circle, though, families of the dead criticized the company's refusal to keep paying any part of the salaries owed to employees who were killed. Lutnick's explanation was that the idea was beyond practical. Banks would not endorse continued payment for two-thirds of a company's workforce when they knew those people were dead. The relief from those obligations also gave the firm an essential safety net in the uncertain days that followed.
Lutnick appealed to Bernadine Healy, the president and chief executive of the American Red Cross, and the organization offered aid to the victims' families. He attended twenty funerals a day for more than a month. In October, Cantor Fitzgerald began distributing money to the families. In February 2002, it announced it would divide a share of its profit among survivors.
A year after the attacks, Lutnick began negotiating to move the firm from its temporary headquarters at 135 East 57th Street to Union Square, on 14th Street between Broadway and University Place. He asked Congress for funding and built a working relationship with Florida representative Bill Young, who chaired the House Committee on Appropriations. The legislation signed by President George W. Bush did not mention Cantor Fitzgerald and gave less than Lutnick had requested. The deal fell through. He considered 10 Hanover Square, then settled at 110 East 59th Street, keeping his vow never to return to Lower Manhattan. By December 2002, the firm had 750 employees in New York.
The 2013 documentary Out of the Clear Blue Sky, directed by Danielle Gardner, tells the story of the firm's destruction and rebuilding. It puts Lutnick's efforts to preserve the company at its center.
Giving followed quickly. In October 2001, the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund began donating to families of victims with one or more children. Lutnick had also given to the Cantor Fitzgerald Foundation, and the firm contributed to the relief fund again in September 2002. Cantor Fitzgerald and its partner company BGC Partners hold an annual charity day on the 11th of September. By September 2014, it had raised money for non-profits dedicated to the attacks, including the September 11th Education Trust. In January 2006, Lutnick joined the board of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation.
The relief fund later reached beyond that day. It donated after Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Alongside Senator Chuck Schumer, Lutnick went to P.S. 256 to hand debit cards to families hit by Hurricane Sandy. He gave cards of an equal amount to victims of the 2013 Moore tornado. In 2008, he appeared on The Celebrity Apprentice, hosted by Donald Trump, in a charity auction.
His largest single beneficiary is his old college. In October 2014, Lutnick made the biggest single donation Haverford had received, and he is the school's largest benefactor. His gifts have gone toward the library that carries his name, the Douglas B. Gardner Integrated Athletic Center, and the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery. They have also supported the Gary Lutnick Tennis & Track Center.
Lutnick told the Wall Street Journal that he is a fiscal conservative and a social liberal. A lifelong Democrat, he is now a registered Republican. He said he left the Democratic Party because he felt it had moved further to the left. His donation history tells a longer story. In the 2016 elections, he gave to presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and to Senate candidate Kamala Harris. He later attributed those gifts to his wife. An analysis by Bloomberg News and OpenSecrets found that the Lutnicks have been making political donations since 1989.
In May 2019, The New York Times disclosed that Lutnick had hosted a fundraiser for President Donald Trump that raised a substantial sum. Five years later, he hosted a fundraiser for South Carolina senator Tim Scott.
In June 2024, Lutnick co-hosted a Trump fundraiser in London that was organized by Duke Buchan. That August, he raised money for Trump at his home in Bridgehampton, New York. The event caused traffic delays from Riverhead to Amagansett through the night. The same month, Lutnick was appointed co-chair of Trump's transition team, overseeing personnel. With Woody Johnson and Kimberly Guilfoyle, he committed to donate and joined the Trump Victory Trust. By September, Bloomberg News reported, he had raised money for Trump, including a donation to MAGA Inc. In October, he appeared with Elon Musk at a Trump rally at Madison Square Garden.
As transition co-chair, Lutnick put loyalty to Trump first in his hiring decisions. After meeting Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in October, he claimed to be convinced that vaccines cause autism. He also said the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act had let vaccine manufacturers grow reckless in production. That same month, he told the New York Post that The Heritage Foundation, which led Project 2025, was "radioactive".
In 2025, Lutnick was among the donors who paid for the demolition of the White House's East Wing and for a planned ballroom.
After the 2024 election, Lutnick was under consideration for secretary of the treasury. Within a week, the field had narrowed to Lutnick and Scott Bessent. Bessent was seen as the front-runner until Lutnick began to advocate for himself. Politico reported that the decision was delayed by Lutnick's role in supplying information to Trump. The New York Times reported that Trump had reservations about him, describing him as a constant presence and a manipulator. That led Trump to widen his list of candidates. Elon Musk, a Trump advisor, endorsed Lutnick and dismissed Bessent as a "business-as-usual choice." On the 19th of November 2024, Trump selected Lutnick as his nominee for secretary of commerce.
In the months after the election, Lutnick privately negotiated with companies and countries over Trump's economic policy. According to the New York Times, he urged Trump to seek a trade agreement with China, believing Trump held an advantageous position. On the 29th of January 2025, he appeared before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. There he promoted tariffs and vowed stronger action on China and its advances in artificial intelligence, especially the release of DeepSeek R1. The following month, the Times reported that he had joined discussions about offering Intel's manufacturing facilities to TSMC.
On the 18th of February 2025, the Senate confirmed him by a vote of 51-45. Democratic senators Cory Booker and Gary Peters, and Republican senators Jerry Moran and Dan Sullivan, did not vote. Lutnick was sworn in on the 21st of February.
Even before his confirmation, Trump had directed Lutnick to impose reciprocal tariffs. Lutnick told reporters the Commerce Department's work would be done by the 1st of April. His first meeting with an international official was with Maroš Šefčovič, the European commissioner for trade and economic security. Jamieson Greer, the nominee for United States trade representative, and Kevin Hassett, chairman of the National Economic Council, joined him. After the confirmation, he received a letter from Wang Wentao, the Chinese minister of commerce. Wang expressed dissatisfaction with American tariffs on Chinese goods and said China was willing to resolve "respective concerns through equal dialogue and consultation." When Trump started a trade war with Canada and Mexico, Lutnick took part in negotiations with foreign leaders.
On Meet the Press in March 2025, Lutnick said there was "no chance" of a recession because of Trump's economic policies. Politico reported that he faced internal criticism over the tariffs. Later that month, he said the tariffs would be "worth it" even if they led to a recession. He defended the tariffs on Canada to the Toronto Star by citing offshoring and fentanyl. He also told Fox News viewers that Tesla stock "will never be this cheap again," a remark that allegedly violated federal ethics rules. In a podcast interview, he said only a "fraudster" would complain about a missed Social Security check. "The easiest way to find the fraudster is to stop payments and listen" for complaints, he said.
By April, Lutnick required that every contract over $100,000 at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration be personally approved by him. The policy created a bottleneck. Contracts lapsed for facility maintenance, janitorial service, emergency alert translations, and web hosting. Later that month, he promoted "great jobs of the future" for the United States, "where you work in these factory plants for the rest of your life, and your kids work here, and your grandkids work here." His example was factory robot technician jobs.
Time listed him among the world's 100 most influential people in 2025. He is also a recipient of the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award.
In February 2025, after the Senate confirmed him, Lutnick named his sons, Brandon and Kyle, then in their 20s, as chairman and executive vice chairman of Cantor Fitzgerald. Sage Kelly, Pascal Bandelier, and Christian Wall were named to lead investment banking, equities, and fixed income, respectively. Reporting on his time as commerce secretary says he has pushed for projects and investments that benefited his family. In November 2025, the New York Times wrote, "never in modern U.S. history has the office intersected so broadly and deeply with the financial interests of the commerce secretary's own family, according to interviews with ethics lawyers and historians."
The firm itself had changed a great deal since 1996. In August 2004, it set up BGC Partners as a partnership for its voice brokerage business. In October 2007, Lutnick became chief executive of the fixed-income trading and sales business, succeeding Irvin Goldman. In January 2017, Anshu Jain, a former Deutsche Bank executive, joined as president. Jain died in 2022. By September 2018, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index counted Lutnick as a billionaire.
Since 2020, Cantor Fitzgerald has invested in cryptocurrency, particularly Tether. Tether is a major cryptocurrency company that has been implicated in money laundering and sanctions evasion by regimes in Russia, Iran, and North Korea. In July 2024, Lutnick and Trump spoke at a Bitcoin conference in Nashville, Tennessee. There Lutnick announced that Cantor would open a lending facility with Bitcoin as collateral. The firm now manages the majority of Tether's reserve assets, including a large holding of Treasury securities. It has also encouraged Rumble, an alt-tech video hosting company, to go public. It advised a business operated by Omeed Malik and invested in Strive Enterprises, an asset management company owned by Vivek Ramaswamy.
In December 1994, Lutnick married Allison Lambert, then a senior associate at Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker. They have four children. In February 2025, Trump appointed himself chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and Allison was appointed a trustee. In October 2021, Lutnick disclosed that he had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He began chemotherapy soon afterward and was cancer-free by September 2024.
His financial disclosure form, released in January 2025, revealed substantial assets. It listed shares in GE Aerospace, GE Healthcare, The Walt Disney Company, and Nasdaq, Inc. It also listed shares in the musical Kimberly Akimbo. In 2019 and 2023, he borrowed large sums from Bank of America.
In 1998, Lutnick bought a Manhattan house at 11 East 71st Street, behind the Henry Clay Frick House, from the Comet Trust. He had extensively renovated the interior by May 2001 and still owns it. He also lives in Bridgehampton, New York, on a 40-acre property he bought in 2003. In December 2024, he bought Bret Baier's home in Washington, D.C., setting a record as the most expensive house in the city. The property is inspired by the Château du Grand-Lucé. The New York Times said that purchase, along with others by wealthy members of the administration, helped lift the city's luxury real estate market. Lutnick also owns the penthouse of The Pierre and a condo on the ocean north of Miami Beach. His Manhattan mansion sits next door to the Herbert N. Straus House, which was Jeffrey Epstein's New York home from 1995 until his death.
In an October 2025 interview, Lutnick said he had been Jeffrey Epstein's neighbor but had sworn in 2005 never to be in a room with him again. He said the vow followed a meeting with Epstein and his wife at Epstein's house, where Epstein's behavior was "disgusting." Lutnick described asking why there was a massage table in the middle of the house. In his telling, Epstein said he had a massage every day. Then Epstein got "weirdly close" and added a remark about "the right kind of massage." Lutnick said he and his wife decided, in the six to eight steps between the two houses, that he would never be in the room with that man again.
Despite that vow, Lutnick went on to have various contact with Epstein for many years. Epstein files released in January 2026 showed extensive contact over several years. In November 2012, a longtime Epstein aide reached out to arrange a meeting while Lutnick was in Saint Thomas. Lutnick agreed to a lunch on the 23rd of December on Epstein's private island. He was accompanied by his wife, Allison, and their four children. Emails showed the couple coordinating logistics, including where to dock their yacht at Little Saint James. The day after the scheduled meeting, BBC News reported, Lutnick received an email from a redacted sender saying Epstein wanted to pass along a message: "Nice seeing you."
Epstein's schedule showed the two men also had drinks together in 2011. In November 2015, Epstein received an invitation from Lutnick to a fundraiser at Cantor Fitzgerald for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. In 2017, the two discussed plans for a building across the street from both of their homes. The next year, Epstein contributed to a philanthropic dinner hosted by Lutnick.
When The New York Times asked about the emails, Lutnick said, "I spent zero time with him" and hung up. A Commerce Department spokesman said Lutnick had "limited interactions" with Epstein "in the presence of his wife" and has never been accused of wrongdoing. On the 10th of February 2026, Lutnick testified on the matter before the Senate Appropriations Committee. He admitted that in December 2012, he, his wife and their children had lunch with Epstein on Little Saint James. That was four years after Epstein's conviction, and the hearing brought bipartisan criticism and calls for Lutnick's resignation.
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Who is Howard Lutnick?
Howard Lutnick is an American businessman who led the brokerage Cantor Fitzgerald and became the 41st United States secretary of commerce in 2025. He was born on the 14th of July 1961 on Long Island, New York.
How did Howard Lutnick become head of Cantor Fitzgerald?
Lutnick was hired in 1983 by founder B. Gerald Cantor, who made him a protégé and later named him his successor. After a 1996 Delaware lawsuit and a May settlement with the Cantor family, he kept management control and became chairman when Cantor died in July 1996.
What happened to Howard Lutnick's company on September 11, 2001?
Cantor Fitzgerald had its headquarters in the North Tower of the World Trade Center, just above where Flight 11 struck. Of 960 New York employees, all 658 who were in the office died, including Lutnick's brother, Gary. Lutnick was taking his son to kindergarten.
Why was Howard Lutnick criticized after the September 11 attacks?
Families of employees who died criticized Cantor Fitzgerald for refusing to keep paying any part of those employees' salaries. Lutnick said banks would not endorse paying two-thirds of a company's workforce known to be dead.
When was Howard Lutnick confirmed as secretary of commerce?
The Senate confirmed Howard Lutnick on the 18th of February 2025 by a vote of 51-45. He was sworn in on the 21st of February 2025, after Donald Trump nominated him on the 19th of November 2024.
What is Howard Lutnick's connection to Jeffrey Epstein?
Lutnick lived near Epstein in Manhattan and, with his wife and four children, had lunch with Epstein on Little Saint James in December 2012. He testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee on the 10th of February 2026, and a Commerce Department spokesman said he has never been accused of wrongdoing.
What is the connection between Howard Lutnick and Haverford College?
Lutnick attended Haverford College, captained its tennis team and graduated in 1983 with an economics degree. He is now its largest benefactor, and his October 2014 gift was the largest single donation the college had received.
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