Bill and Hillary Clinton subpoenaed in congressional Epstein probe
Former US President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary are among the high -profile figures to be sent from a congress committee investigating late sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.
The President of the Parliamentary Surveillance Committee has published Republican James Comer, Celbi Clintons and eight other people.
The Committee is looking for information about Epstein’s history after President Donald Trump decided to publish more federal files in the dead financier.
This decision led to anger among some democrats who refused to accept the statement that the Trump fans and the Ministry of Justice did not have a “accusing customer list” in Epstein files.
In the midst of a crack between some supporters in Trump and Epstein, the Committee, which consisted of both Democrats and Republicans, recently voted to publish prisoners.
The panel was also sentenced to the Ministry of Justice for records related to Epstein.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers, who are currently sentenced to 20 years in prison for sex smuggling, said that he was willing to witness strict legal guards before a strong research committee. However, the planned 11 August deposits were postponed indefinitely.
Epstein Legal Saga, Florida Police and Federal Investigation Bureau with the first first examining the well -connected king for sexual abuse allegations in the early 2000s.
Comer, each person, the committee “the federal government’s generally enforcement of the laws of sex smuggling laws, especially the investigation and prosecution of Epstein’ın,” he wrote.
He also stated that the accumulations will begin this month and will continue in autumn and Bill Clinton will be planned on October 14th.
Former lawyers General Merrick Garland, Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder and Alberto Gonzales, Jeff Sessions and William Barr, together with Trump led the Ministry of Justice. Former FBI secretaries James comey and Robert Mueller were also sent to the subpoena.
The Clinton administration comes before the Epstein investigation, but the couple’s critics have long questioned their relationship with Epstein.
A spokesman accepted This Bill Clinton made four trips with staff on Epstein’s private plane in 2002 and 2003 and met with Epstein in New York in 2002. Clinton visited Epstein’s New York apartment at that time.
Letters to each Clinton, these events and other alleged encounters and connections are referred to as the reasons for calling.
By referring to flight logs, the US media had previously reported that Clinton had flew up to 26 times without secret service detail in Epstein’s jet.
In 2019, a spokesman said the former president, “Jeffrey Epstein was guilty in Florida a few years ago, or he didn’t know anything about the criminal crimes he was accused of recently,” he said.
The Clinton Foundation and Bill Clinton’s press office did not respond immediately to comments.
The Ministry of Justice had no interpretation.
All documents and communications of the department about Epstein and Maxwell, the department’s files from Maxwell and Epstein’s files against Maxwell and Epstein, which are related to human trafficking, exploitation of minors, sexual abuse or related activities, are documented by an agreement dated 2007.
It is not immediately clear whether individuals called by Comer will appear before the committee and if they do it, whether they will witness the public.
In the last 200 years, only four former former presidents of the congress committees received the court and only two testified.
In particular, the committee, which investigated Capitol Riot on January 6, 2021, voted for Cubpoena Trump at a television hearing and sued to stop later. When the committee disintegrated, the court fell.
Federal prosecutors accused Epstein of small and other crimes of sex smuggling in 2019 during the first Trump administration.
In August he died in prison in prison, and then many of them began to question the conditions of death.
This summer, Chief Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi announced that after a review, his department could not find evidence of the long -standing customer list.
He also said that the evidence supported Epstein died of suicide. He said the government would not publish more files.
The announcements led to anger among some supporters of Trump, who promised the Epstein Records campaign.
The struggle between the Republican Assembly was so concerned that the speaker Mike Johnson sent deputies home to vote for the publication of Epstein files at the beginning of July.
As the demand for the Trump administration to publish more Epstein records, the Ministry of Justice has recently met Maxwell and is currently trying to publish its major jury transcripts from the case. On Tuesday, Maxwell’s lawyer said he was against the release of transcripts.
“Jeffrey Epstein is dead. Ghislaine is not Maxwell,” Maxwell’s lawyers wrote in a file.
“Whatever the public’s Epstein, this interest, this interest, the defendant is alive, the legal options are applicable and the necessary process rights remain in the case of the great jury can not justify a large intervention.”
The BBC asked the White House to comment on the court.
