Bondi won't appear for House deposition next week in the Epstein investigation
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The Department of Justice has indicated that former Attorney General Pam Bondi won't appear for a scheduled deposition next week before a House committee investigating how the government handled its investigations into Jeffrey Epstein.

Jessica Collins, a spokeswoman for the House Oversight Committee, said Wednesday the department signaled that Bondi, who was ousted by President Donald Trump last week, will not appear for the deposition April 14 “since she is no longer attorney general and was subpoenaed in her capacity as attorney general.” The committee will contact Bondi’s personal counsel to discuss the next steps about scheduling the interview, she said.

Bondi has faced scrutiny for how the Justice Department handled what are known as the Epstein files, and the Republican-led committee subpoenaed her in a bipartisan vote last month. The department’s release of millions of case files on Epstein, the late financier who sexually abused underage girls, contained multiple errors and ran behind a deadline set by Congress.

  • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
    616·
    5 days ago

    Come on people we all hate Bondi and the whole Trump Admin, but there’s plenty to criticise them without editorialising article titles.

    The actual title is:

    Bondi won’t appear for House deposition next week in the Epstein investigation

    Meaning… there’s an issue with the paperwork for the subpoena she received, but presumably they will resolve it. So she’s not going to appear on the 14th but will appear at some point.

    • kingofras@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      20·
      5 days ago

      It’s in the quoted text:

      will not appear for the deposition April 14 “since she is no longer attorney general and was subpoenaed in her capacity as attorney general.” The committee will contact Bondi’s personal counsel to discuss the next steps about scheduling the interview, she said

      We live in a world where corrupt news orgs intentionally soften the wording of a lot of this regime’s crimes, I’m simplifying the title to stipulate exactly what is happening: she’s ignoring the subpoena and not testifying. Congress will attempt to reach out to her, but that in no way means she eventually will testify as you’re alluding.

      Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_Congress#Subpoenas

      There is no issue with the paper work, she’s simply stalling again, as she has done for the last 14 months.

      TLDR; Subpoenas are addressed to the person, not the office, there is no issue, she’s stalling.

      • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
        410·
        5 days ago

        The article’s original title is more accurate.

        She hasn’t “ignored” the subpoena, she’s said that she’s not complying with it.

        Regardless, I’m not going to defend her, but nor am I going to waste my time explaining to an echo chamber why editorialising titles weakens discourse.

        • kingofras@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
          14·
          5 days ago

          If it were an echo chamber you’d be banned, or your comment removed or something.

          I’m not jordanlund, and this comm doesn’t have those rules.

          You’ve made your explanation, but stating that she’ll come back later, while that is nowhere in the article, is really bestowing a whole lot of good faith while the dow is still below 50,000.