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华盛顿讯 — 众议院监督与政府改革委员会共和党领袖周三表示，他正推动代理司法部长托德·布兰奇下月出席该委员会听证会，就司法部对已定罪性犯罪者杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的调查作答。
肯塔基州联邦众议员詹姆斯·科默对记者表示，他正就布兰奇可能作证一事与司法部沟通，并希望能在7月安排他出席听证会。
“我们正努力让托德·布兰奇到场作证。”他说。
科默表示，众议院调查人员向布兰奇提出的核心问题是“还有哪些文件未被公开——如果确实存在未公开文件的话”。
不过这位肯塔基州共和党人指出，布兰奇即将面临一场“关键的提名确认程序”，他指的是布兰奇的司法部长提名已于周一由白宫正式提交至参议院。特朗普总统上周宣布已选定布兰奇出任该职位。
数月来，监督委员会一直在调查司法部对爱泼斯坦案件的处理情况，并已闭门采访了十余人，其中包括前司法部长帕姆·邦迪、前总统比尔·克林顿以及商务部长霍华德·卢特尼克。
微软联合创始人比尔·盖茨将于周三出席监督委员会听证会，就他与爱泼斯坦的关联作证。爱泼斯坦的长期助理莱斯利·格罗夫已于周二出席了议员听证会。科默表示，他还将邀请哈佛大学前法学教授艾伦·德肖维茨接受众议院调查人员询问。
谈及德肖维茨时，科默说：“我们会向他提问。我们将给他机会到场，就格罗夫女士昨日的证词以及一些爱泼斯坦受害者家属提及的内容，回答若干问题。”
邦迪在爱泼斯坦联邦调查相关的300多万页文件公开期间负责司法部工作，这些文件是根据《爱泼斯坦文件透明度法案》要求必须公开的。但她因文件发布流程遭到猛烈批评，并于4月被解职。
在上月末的证词中，邦迪对议员们表示：“据我所知，司法部已按法律要求公开了所有应公开的内容。”
邦迪出席听证会之后，监督委员会资深民主党议员、加利福尼亚州联邦众议员罗伯特·加西亚敦促科默邀请布兰奇和联邦调查局局长卡什·帕特尔接受采访。加西亚表示，邦迪在证词中“多次将责任推给布兰奇”，并称她“将审查爱泼斯坦相关文件的监督职责委托给了时任副司法部长的布兰奇”。
据加西亚透露，邦迪还表示，是布兰奇决定约谈爱泼斯坦的长期同伙吉斯莱恩·麦克斯韦，后者因协助爱泼斯坦招募、引诱和虐待未成年少女被判处20年监禁。布兰奇于去年7月会见了麦克斯韦，会面几天后，麦克斯韦被转移至德克萨斯州的一所最低安全级别的监狱营地。
贾拉·布朗为本报道撰稿。
比尔·盖茨就与爱泼斯坦的关联接受众议院监督委员会质询
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/bill-gates-facing-house-oversight-lawmakers-on-ties-to-jeffrey-epstein/
比尔·盖茨就与杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的关联接受众议院监督委员会议员质询
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Oversight Committee chair says he’s working to have Blanche testify in Epstein investigation
2026-06-10 11:13 AM EDT / CBS News
Washington — The Republican leader of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said Wednesday that he is working to have Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appear before the panel next month to answer questions about the Justice Department’s investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Rep. James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, told reporters that he is communicating with the Justice Department about potential testimony from Blanche and wants to see him appear in July.
“We’re working to bring Todd Blanche in,” he said.
Comer said the main question House investigators have for Blanche is “what, if any, documents are left out there.”
Still, the Kentucky Republican noted that Blanche has a “big confirmation” coming up, referring to his nomination for attorney general, which the White House officially sent to the Senate on Monday. President Trump announced last week he had selected Blanche for the post.
The Oversight panel has been investigating the Justice Department’s handling of Epstein’s case for several months and has interviewed more than a dozen people behind closed doors, including former Attorney General Pam Bondi, former President Bill Clinton and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is testifying before the Oversight Committee about his ties to Epstein on Wednesday. Lesley Groff, Epstein’s longtime assistance, appeared before lawmakers Tuesday. Comer said he will also ask former Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz to come before House investigators.
“We will have questions for him. We’re going to give him an opportunity to come in and answer several questions that arose yesterday based on Ms. Groff’s testimony and some things that some of the Epstein survivors said,” Comer said of Dershowitz.
Bondi led the Justice Department during the release of more than 3 million pages of files from the federal investigation into Epstein, which were required to be made public under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. But she came under fierce criticism over the document rollout and was ousted from her position in April.
During her testimony late last month, Bondi told lawmakers, “to the best of my knowledge, the department produced everything required” under the law.
Following Bondi’s appearance, the Oversight Committee’s top Democrat, Rep. Robert Garcia of California, pressed Comer to bring in Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel for interviews. Garcia said that during her testimony, Bondi “repeatedly shifted responsibility” to Blanche and said she “delegated oversight” of the process for reviewing the Epstein documents to Blanche, who was deputy attorney general.
According to Garcia, Bondi also indicated it was Blanche’s decision to interview Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime associate of Epstein’s who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in helping him recruit, groom and abuse minor girls. Blanche met with Maxwell last July and days after the meeting, she was transferred to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas.
Jaala Brown contributed to this report.
Bill Gates testifying on ties to Epstein
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/bill-gates-facing-house-oversight-lawmakers-on-ties-to-jeffrey-epstein/
Bill Gates facing House Oversight lawmakers on ties to Jeffrey Epstein
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