Pam Bondi, who served as U.S. attorney general until she was ousted from the position in April, is set to appear before Congress on Friday in a closed-door hearing focused on the release of files connected to Jeffrey Epstein.
The hearing
The session is closed to the public — meaning no cameras, no gallery, no live feed of whatever Bondi tells lawmakers about how the Justice Department handled the Epstein materials. What she says in that room, and whether any of it surfaces afterward, isn’t yet clear.
Bondi’s departure from the attorney general post came in April, roughly four months into her tenure. Her exit and the Epstein file questions have been on a collision course ever since, with congressional pressure building around what the Justice Department did or didn’t do with records tied to the disgraced financier who died in federal custody in 2019.
Epstein’s death was ruled a suicide by the New York City medical examiner, though that finding has been disputed by his family and others for years. The files at the center of Friday’s hearing relate to investigative materials and records that advocates and lawmakers have pushed to make public.
Whether Friday’s closed session produces any public accounting – a transcript, a summary, a member statement – hasn’t been announced.
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