New Delhi, Feb. 27 -- The US Department of Justice (DOJ) reportedly removed a photograph of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick from its website on Thursday (local time). The photograph was released in January when the Justice Department released millions of documents in connection with the late financier and convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, The Daily Beast reported.

The image, which appears to show Lutnick alongside Epstein and three other men on Little Saint James, the disgraced financier's private Caribbean island, is said to date back to 2012, a visit Lutnick has previously acknowledged. The photograph had reportedly surfaced in a cached download of the Epstein Files but was later removed from the official archive.

The image w...