Jeffrey Epstein assistant Lesley Groff questioned by House panel

Lesley Groff, the former executive assistant to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, began a scripted interview Tuesday morning. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee behind closed doors.

Groff’s appearance before the committee took place the day before Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates will speak on the same panel that has been interviewing a number of high-profile people with ties to Epstein for months.

“I didn’t see anything inappropriate at all,” Groff told the committee, according to a source familiar with the matter cited by MS NOW.

The source said Groff denied knowing about Epstein’s crimes.

Groff worked for Epstein for nearly 20 years, and his name appears more than 150,000 times in the Epstein files released by the Justice Department. MS NOW noted that Groff was responsible for arranging Epstein’s meetings with prominent people and scheduling massages for him from women.

Neither Groff nor Gates have been charged with any crimes related to Epstein, who killed himself in a federal prison in New York in August 2019, weeks after he was arrested on child sex trafficking charges.

Priest House attended Groff’s interview for an unknown reason Margaret Grun Kibbena person who does not normally attend such hearings.

“He had no criminal involvement with Epstein,” said Groff’s attorney, Michael Bachner.

“Lesley is disgusted by Epstein’s behavior and heartbroken by the pain his victims endured,” Bachner said in March, MS NOW reported.

Kentucky Republican Rep. James Comer, who chairs the committee, told MS NOW that the panel referred the two names to the commission. Ministry of Justice. He did not define them.

“I think the interviews we did were very productive,” Comer told reporters Tuesday morning.

“We’re bringing in the most important people in the entire Epstein crime syndicate who are still alive and hopefully will provide evidence to the American people that there is an opportunity for accountability,” Comer said.

Asked whether the committee would subpoena acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Comer said Democrats on the panel had a chance to question Blanche when he and then-Attorney General Pam Bondi briefed the committee on the Justice Department’s alleged Epstein files in March.

President Donald Trump officially nominated Blanche to be attorney general on Monday; This mandate requires Senate approval. Trump fired Bondi in April over displeasure with her handling of the controversy over the Epstein files.

In November, Congress passed a bill requiring the Justice Department to release all documents related to Epstein, over Trump’s objection. Trump quickly signed this bill into law and the Justice Department released millions of Epstein case documents, but Blanche said on January 30 that the Justice Department was withholding approximately 2.5 million more documents and would not release any more.

Epstein victims appealed the Justice Department’s decision.

When Bondi was interviewed by the House Oversight Committee two weeks ago, he said he had assigned Blanche to handle the release of the files.

Trump was a longtime friend of Epstein’s before the two men had a falling out in the early 2000s.

Blanche is Trump’s former criminal defense attorney.