On Tuesday, March 17, the House Oversight Committee formally issued a subpoena to Attorney General Pam Bondi, demanding answers regarding materials related to the Epstein case.
Earlier this month, the committee had already voted to compel Bondi’s testimony at the initiative of Representative Nancy Mace (Republican of South Carolina), who said it remained unclear whether the Justice Department had turned over all documents subject to disclosure under the law.
“The Committee has questions regarding how the Department of Justice handled the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and his associates, as well as whether it complied with the requirements of the Epstein Files Transparency Act,” Committee Chair James Comer (Republican of Kentucky) wrote in a cover letter accompanying the subpoena.
“As Attorney General, you are directly responsible for overseeing the collection, review, and decisions regarding the release of materials under this law, and the Committee believes you possess critical insight into these efforts.”
According to the subpoena, Bondi is required to appear for a deposition on April 14.
In arguing for the subpoena, Mace accused the Attorney General of “obfuscating information.”
“More than 65,000 documents are missing, and we know there are over 2,000 videos. Congress is not being given all the information or all the documents—there is deliberate obfuscation. I intend to press these questions during the deposition,” Mace told reporters shortly after the vote.