Billionaire held in contempt over Epstein ties sues incoming oversight chair for $7.25 million over repeating it

…(cont) And I'm sorry again, but there's a third side to this I can't let go of, and it's the money. Seven million, two hundred fifty thousand dollars. That's the figure in the lawsuit Mr. Black filed this week, fifty days after that contempt vote, against Congressman Robert Garcia, the ranking member on that same committee. Seven million, two hundred fifty thousand dollars, for saying, in public, the same thing the committee already said.

I tried picturing what that number looks like carried somewhere, the way I carry the grocery bags from the trunk to the porch two at a time because my knees won't do it in one trip anymore. Seven million, two hundred fifty thousand one-dollar bills would take a pallet, not a trunk. I don't have a use for that picture, sir, I just needed it to hold the number still long enough to write it down properly.

I'm sorry, one more pass, because the part I keep losing isn't the money or the date, it's the chair. Congressman Garcia isn't only the man Mr. Black is suing. The same Oversight Committee that subpoenaed Mr. Black is the one Mr. Garcia is next in line to run. So the committee that asked the question is about to be chaired by the man being sued, for seven million, two hundred fifty thousand dollars, for repeating the answer it already got.

Oh — before you go, sir, one thing, I almost let you out the door without it. If Mr. Garcia takes that gavel while this suit is still open, who exactly decides whether that committee ever subpoenas Mr. Black again — the committee that voted, unanimously, twice, or the man currently suing its next chairman for seven million, two hundred fifty thousand dollars, for saying, in public, the same thing the committee already said?