House Oversight Chairman James Comer on Monday announced that former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta will sit for a transcribed interview next month as part of his committee’s probe into the late, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Acosta, who served as President Donald Trump’s first Secretary of Labor from 2017-2019 after working as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, has been criticized for signing a deal in 2008 that appeared favorable to Epstein by allowing him to plead guilty to a single state charge, despite a years-long FBI investigation.
The former attorney has hit back at critics in 2019, after Epstein faced serious federal charges, by highlighting how the deal made Epstein register as a sex offender, per Politico.Â
Comer, who is leading a Congressional probe into the government’s handling of the Epstein investigation, said Acosta will voluntarily sit for the interview on Sept. 19.
The chairman also said Monday that the panel will “accept formal written declarations from former Attorneys General Alberto Gonzalez, Eric Holder, and Jeff Sessions under penalty of prosecution for false statements stating they possess no information about the Epstein or [Ghislaine] Maxwell cases.”
The announcements come the same day that the House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the Epstein estate for documents and communications in its possession related to the federal investigation and any potential mismanagement by the government.
“It is our understanding that the Estate of Jeffrey Epstein is in custody and control of documents that may further the Committee’s investigation and legislative goals,” Comer said in a press release. “Further, it is our understanding the Estate is ready and willing to provide these documents to the Committee pursuant to a subpoena.”
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