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Former Attorney General Pam Bondi is set to give a closed-door interview Friday over her handling of the federal government's investigation into the late, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell.
As head of the Justice Department, Bondi faced intense criticism over the agency's release of a trove of documents pertaining to Epstein that revealed personal information and images of survivors.
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Bondi's appearance before the House Oversight Committee comes weeks after President Donald Trump fired her in April. She told CNN on Wednesday that she wasdiagnosed with thyroid cancershortly after her exit from the DOJ.
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Asked whether Bondi will be sworn under oath, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the committee's chair, did not give a clear answer.
"She's coming in, if she says anything that's not true, that's a felony and she'll be prosecuted," he said.
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Bondi's recollection is one of several sought by the Republican-controlled House committee. Other notable figures who have provided testimony includeformer President Bill Clinton,former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Epstein'sformer assistantand aformer prison guardwho was working the night before the financier was found dead in his cell.
From across the political spectrum and the worlds of finance, entertainment and beyond, a number of powerful figures have emerged in the Epstein documents, pictures and emails released by the DOJ. Inclusion in the files does not necessarily indicate wrongdoing, but the fallout has led to some high-profile resignations and calls for more accountability.
In a bipartisan move, the committee voted in March to subpoena Bondi as the DOJ endured mounting pressure, even from conservative Trump supporters, to provide more information about its sex-trafficking investigation into Epstein.
The committee told the attorney general shepossessed "valuable insight"into the agency's release of the files, legally mandated by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a law that established a deadline the agency failed to fully comply with.
