Jeffrey Epstein’s assistant Leslie Groff questioned by House panel

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

Groff’s appearance before the committee comes a day before. Microsoft Co-founder Bill Gates is scheduled to speak to the same panel that has spent months interviewing several high-profile people connected to Epstein.

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 reported that Groff was responsible for arranging Epstein’s meetings with prominent people and getting women to schedule massages for him.

Neither Groff nor Gates have been accused of any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein, who killed himself in a federal prison in New York in August 2019, weeks after being arrested on child sex trafficking charges.

House Chaplain skipped Groff’s interview for unknown reason Margaret Grune KibbonWho is generally not involved in such proceedings.

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

“Leslie is disgusted by Epstein’s conduct and saddened by what his victims endured,” Bachner said in March, MS Now reported.

Kentucky Republican Representative James Comer, chairman of the committee, told MS Now that the panel has sent the names of the two individuals. Department of Justice. He did not identify them.

“I think the interviews we’ve done have been very productive,” Comer told reporters Tuesday morning.

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

Asked whether the committee would subpoena Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Comer said the panel’s Democrats already had a chance to question Blanche when she and then-Attorney General Pam Bondi briefed the committee on the DOJ’s so-called Epstein files in March.

President Donald Trump on Monday formally nominated Blanch to be attorney general, a position that requires Senate confirmation. Trump fired Bondi in April due to outrage over his handling of the controversy over the Epstein files.

In November, Congress passed a bill over Trump’s objection to require the DOJ to release all of its documents related to Epstein. Trump immediately signed that bill into law and the DOJ released millions of Epstein case documents, but Blanch said on January 30 that the DOJ had withheld about 2.5 million more documents and would not release any more.

Epstein’s victims objected to the DOJ’s decision.

Bondi, when he was interviewed by the House Oversight Committee two weeks earlier, said that he had tasked Blanche with releasing the files.

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

Blanche is Trump’s former criminal defense lawyer.