Pam Bondi will not appear for deposition in Jeffrey Epstein investigation - BERITAJA

The Department of Justice has indicated that erstwhile U.S. lawyer wide Pam Bondi will not look for a scheduled deposition adjacent week earlier a House committee investigating really the authorities handled its investigations into Jeffrey Epstein.

Jessica Collins, a spokeswoman for the House Oversight Committee, said Wednesday the section signalled that Bondi, who was ousted by President Donald Trump last week, will not look for the deposition April 14 “since she is nary longer lawyer wide and was subpoenaed successful her capacity arsenic lawyer general.”

The committee will interaction Bondi’s individual counsel to talk the adjacent steps about scheduling the interview, she said.

Bondi has faced scrutiny for really the Justice Department handled what are known arsenic the Epstein files, and the Republican-led committee subpoenaed her in a bipartisan ballot past month.

The department’s merchandise of millions of lawsuit files connected Epstein, the precocious financier who sexually abused underage girls, contained aggregate errors and ran down a deadline group by Congress.

After Trump announced Bondi’s ouster from his Cabinet connected April 2, Bondi said connected societal media that complete the adjacent period she would beryllium “working tirelessly to modulation the office.” But Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has been elevated to the apical job, connected astatine slightest an acting basis, and is performing the duties of the department’s apical official. The Justice Department’s website connected Wednesday still listed Bondi arsenic lawyer general.

Meanwhile, immoderate Republicans who had joined Democrats to lawsuit Bondi said they would insist connected having her look earlier the committee.

Rep. Nancy Mace, who initiated the mobility to compel her appearance, said connected societal media Wednesday that “Bondi cannot flight accountability simply because she nary longer holds the agency of Attorney General.”

Mace, R-SC., added that the mobility was done “by name, not by title” and that “we expect her to look arsenic soon arsenic a caller day is set.”

The apical Democrat connected the committee, Rep. Robert Garcia of California, besides said he would push to enforce the lawsuit and threatened to property for contempt of Congress charges if she does not appear.

In a statement, he said, “Now that Pam Bondi has been fired, she’s trying to get retired of her ineligible responsibility to attest earlier the Oversight Committee about the Epstein files and the White House cover-up.”

The committee’s head, Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, enforced subpoenas on Bill and Hillary Clinton this year, making the ex-president and ex-secretary of state, respectively, among the highest-ranking erstwhile authorities officials ever to beryllium subpoenaed by Congress.