Lawmakers expected to press billionaire Leon Black about Epstein ties

The phrase “Please call Leon Black” appears more than 300 times in the investigative files released by the Justice Department involving Epstein, a convicted sex offender.

WASHINGTON — “Please call Leon Black.”

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That phrase appears more than 300 times in the Jeffrey Epstein investigative files released by the Justice Department, some sent in emails to Epstein by his personal assistant. Black, for years a powerful billionaire Wall Street player, and Epstein had a business relationship stretching back decades.

“Leon, as you are well aware, there is little I won’t do for you or at least try to do as a friend,” Epstein wrote in one email to Black in 2014. “And a great deal that I have already done (both known and some things that will need to remain unknown.)”