Bondi Ordered by House Committee to Testify on Epstein Probe (1)

The House Oversight Committee ordered US Attorney General Pam Bondi to appear for a deposition on the US Justice Department’s handling of the investigation and release of files related to sex trafficking by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The panel’s Republican chairman, James Comer of Kentucky, said in a letter to Bondi that the committee was reviewing her “possible mismanagement” of the investigation.

Epstein, who pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting a child for prostitution, died in jail in 2019 awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges. His former girlfriend, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, was convicted of sex trafficking in ...