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(NewsNation) — Former President Bill Clinton and his wife, erstwhile Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, person been subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee to attest successful its Jeffrey Epstein probe, according to reports.
In precocious July, a House Oversight sheet subcommittee voted to subpoena the Clintons, among others, implicit their alleged ties to Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's accomplice and longtime associate.
Other high-profile figures subpoenaed by committee seat Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., see erstwhile FBI directors James Comey and Robert Mueller, arsenic good arsenic erstwhile attorneys wide Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder, Jeff Sessions, William Barr and Alberto Gonzales, Fox News archetypal reported.
When the Trump medication released much than 900 pages of tribunal documents regarding Epstein's crimes backmost successful February, Bill Clinton — and President Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Cameron Diaz and much — were named.
Last week, Trump said helium “never had the privilege” of going to Epstein’s backstage island, but claimed that Bill Clinton went determination 28 times. A spokesperson for Clinton successful 2019 acknowledged that the erstwhile president had been connected Epstein’s plane, but maintained he’d ne'er been to the island.
Maxwell is presently serving a 20-year condemnation for conspiring with Epstein for the sexual maltreatment of minors. She volition not look a legislature deposition until aft the U.S. Supreme Court considers her appeal.
Maxwell spoke with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche last week for implicit 9 hours implicit 2 days, the latest propulsion for answers successful the
The probe was spurred connected by the DOJ and FBI’s page-and-a-half memo that said Epstein committed suicide, was not murdered and that determination was nary “list” of co-conspirators.
NewsNation's Diana Falzone, Marty Hobe contributed to this report.
