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The committee will conduct seven interviews over the next few months as part of its Epstein inquiry. Democrats<\/a> have been aiming to hold Bondi in contempt of Congress<\/a> after she failed to comply with the committee\u2019s subpoena earlier this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The first of the seven will take place on May 18 with Tova Noel, one of the Metropolitan Correctional Center prison guards on duty when Epstein died in 2019. Bondi is set to testify on May 29, Epstein\u2019s executive assistant Lesley Groff on June 9, and Gates on June 10. Epstein\u2019s client Leon Gates will testify on June 26 and former Obama White House Counsel Kathy Ruemmler on July 15.<\/p>\n

Bondi faced scrutiny over the Justice Department\u2019s handling of releasing the Epstein files in a timely manner before she was fired last month.<\/p>\n

While Gates has maintained his claim that he \u201csaw nothing illicit\u201d when it came to his relationship with Epstein, the tech mogul apologized to his staff<\/a> earlier this year for his close ties with the sex offender.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a huge mistake to spend time with Epstein and bring Gates Foundation executives into meetings with the convicted sex offender,\u201d the former\u00a0Microsoft\u00a0chief said during a town hall with staff at the Gates Foundation. \u201cI apologize to other people who are drawn into this because of the mistake that I made.\u201d<\/p>\n

The transcribed interviews come as the oversight panel has been conducting an extensive investigation into Epstein\u2019s crimes and as the Justice Department has released millions of documents. The committee has already conducted ten interviews, including with former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick<\/a>, former Attorney General Bill Barr, Epstein\u2019s former associate and girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, and billionaire Les Wexner.<\/p>\n

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As part of the investigation, the committee has released multiple batches of documents<\/a> related to the files, many of which were obtained from the committee\u2019s subpoena to Epstein\u2019s estate. While the DOJ has released a slew of files, some have been pushed back, saying the department has not complied with a law passed by Congress last year requiring the release of all documents pertaining to Epstein.<\/p>\n

The investigation began last year following the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation\u2019s release of a two-page memo stating there is no evidence Epstein blackmailed people or kept a \u201cclient list,\u201d reiterating he died by suicide, a conclusion that has resulted in mounting backlash from President Donald Trump\u2019s MAGA base.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The committee will conduct seven interviews over the next few months as part of its Epstein inquiry. Democrats…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[651,667,10802,1152,488,14158,664,4087],"class_list":{"0":"post-66736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bill-gates","8":"tag-bill-gates","9":"tag-epstein-files","10":"tag-government-accountability","11":"tag-house-oversight-committee","12":"tag-investigations","13":"tag-james-comer","14":"tag-jeffrey-epstein","15":"tag-pam-bondi"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116557921322339024","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}