Attorney General Pam Bond and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche are slated to transient members of the House Oversight Committee on the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein behind closed doors today.
It comes as House Oversight Chair James Comer yesterday issued a subpoena to Bondi to seem for a deposition on April 14 as a part of the panel’s Epstein probe.
A supply aware of the method informed NCS that the Justice Department requested it transient the committee on its Epstein investigation and compliance with the regulation to be able to promptly reply lawmakers’ questions, on condition that scheduling a deposition with the committee will take time.
Comer wrote within the subpoena cowl letter that his panel is investigating the “possible mismanagement of the federal government’s investigation” into Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
“The Committee has questions regarding the Department of Justice’s handling of the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and his associates and its compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act,” Comer wrote, referring to the regulation handed by Congress final yr mandating the Justice Department’s launch of the recordsdata.
A DOJ spokesperson known as the subpoena “completely unnecessary,” however didn’t say whether or not the lawyer normal would comply.
NCS’s Hannah Rabinowitz contributed to this report.