March 17 (UPI) -- The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform subpoenaed Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday to give a deposition on the Justice Department's investigation involving sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., sent a letter to Bondi regarding the panel's investigation into Epstein's death, his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, the federal government's handling of sex-trafficking rings and potential ethics rules violations. The subpoena requests for her to testify April 14.
The committee is also investigating the Justice Department's compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which required the department to make its files on the case public and searchable by Dec. 19. The Justice Department made a sixth release of the documents as recently as March 5.
"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 wrote in the letter.
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