A powerful House Republican-led committee subpoenaed Attorney General Pam Bondi Tuesday to answer questions about “the possible mismanagement” of the Justice Department’s probe into deceased sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) wrote in a letter to Bondi that his panel was also interested in hearing about “the circumstances and subsequent investigations of Mr. Epstein’s death” as well as investigative materials gathered on his convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.
The Oversight panel voted in favor of the deposition earlier this month and has asked the AG to appear April 14.
“As Attorney General, you are directly responsible for overseeing the Department’s collection, review, and determinations regarding the release of files pursuant to the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and the Committee therefore believes that you possess valuable insight into these efforts,” Comer said.
Reps for the DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Five Republicans — Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Michael Cloud of Texas, Nancy Mace of South Carolina, and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania — joined 19 Democrats on the Oversight Committee to compel Bondi’s appearance via a motion put forward by Mace March 4.
The Justice Department has released more than 3 million pages of investigative materials on Epstein and Maxwell to the public following the passage of a bill in Congress in November 2025 that mandated their release.
None of the materials have altered the DOJ’s position, memorialized in a July 6, 2025, memo, that Epstein was not part of a sinister pedophile ring that trafficked girls as young as 14 — despite Bondi saying in an interview with Fox News Channel months before that a list of Epstein’s “clients” was “sitting on my desk right now to review.”
A senior Justice Department official told The Post that the memo’s determination about the purported client list and Epstein having committed suicide on Aug. 10, 2019, in his Manhattan jail cell have also been supported by the disclosures.
