Former Attorney General Pam Bondi will not appear as scheduled on April 14 to testify to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about her and the Department of Justice's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, the panel's spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Bondi's appearance was canceled because "she is no longer Attorney General and was subpoenaed in her capacity as Attorney General," the spokeswoman said.
The committee will contact Bondi's lawyer "to discuss next steps regarding scheduling her deposition," the spokeswoman said.
The Oversight Committee in March issued a subpoena to Bondi compelling her testimony.
President Donald Trump fired Bondi as attorney general on April 2 after reports that he was unhappy with her handling of the DOJ's files about Epstein, the notorious dead sex offender whose past high-profile friends included Trump.
Bondi and the DOJ have faced strong criticism since last year over the Epstein files.
Bondi and other leading figures in Trump's orbit had promised that the DOJ's documents relating to Epstein would be made public after Trump regained the White House in January 2025.
Bondi reneged on that promise, which in turn led to Congress passing a bill, which Trump signed into law, mandating the release of those files.
The DOJ, since then, has released millions of documents about Epstein and his convicted procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell.
But the department and Bondi have been criticized after that release for withholding many other documents about Epstein and Maxwell, as well as other issues related to the files.
