USA Committee subpoenas US Attorney General on Epstein scandal
The oversight committee of the US House of Representatives summons Attorney General Pam Bondi to question her about her role in the publication of the Epstein files.
05.03.2026, 01:17
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The committee voted with bipartisan support in favor of subpoenaing the minister, as reported by several US media outlets.
The handling of the millions of files relating to the investigation into the now deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had previously come under criticism. Among other things, it was criticized that victims had not been adequately protected and incriminating files had been removed from the network.
The Control Committee's decision obliges Bondi to appear at the hearing behind closed doors and answer the MPs' questions. Most recently, former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, were also questioned by the committee.
Bondi had already defended her handling of the Epstein files in mid-February, but also admitted mistakes. She admitted that some of the names of the sex offender's victims had been published "inadvertently". These had been blacked out after corresponding indications.
Woman makes accusations against Epstein and Trump in the documents
In mid-December, her ministry began publishing investigation files on the Epstein case. However, according to media reports, the US Department of Justice has already removed tens of thousands of documents from the internet. Analyses by the Wall Street Journal and CBS News revealed that more than 47,000 files had been at least temporarily removed from the platform by the end of February.
According to the WSJ, some of the withheld documents relate to FBI notes on interviews with a woman from 2019. She had testified to having been abused by Epstein as a minor in the 1980s and had also made allegations of sexual misconduct against the later US President Donald Trump.
The US multimillionaire Epstein had run an abuse ring for years, to which many young women and minors fell victim.
