Bill and Hillary Clinton were scheduled to give depositions this week on Capitol Hill about their ties to Jeffrey Epstein, but their appearances have been officially punted into January.
It sends a strong signal members of Congress will continue to investigate the late, convicted sex offender — even as the Justice Department is due to release a trove of materials related to the Epstein case by Friday.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer, who is leading the congressional investigation into Epstein, announced the delay in a letter to an attorney for the Clintons, obtained by POLITICO.
In that letter, Comer maintained that former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton must appear before his committee Jan. 13 and Jan. 14, respectively, or risk being held in contempt of Congress.
“If your clients do not comply with these new dates, the Committee will move immediately to contempt proceedings,” Comer, a Kentucky Republican, wrote.
Comer noted that the Clintons’ attorney had said previously the Clintons were unable to testify this week due to a funeral but declined to provide alternative dates for their depositions, prompting him to unilaterally assigned the former first couple new dates early next month.
The attorney for the Clintons did not immediately return a request for comment. A spokesperson for Bill Clinton has said the former president disassociated himself with Epstein prior to Epstein’s 2019 arrest and had no knowledge of his crimes.
Bill Clinton was also featured in a picture as part of a recent trove of photographs handed over to the Oversight committee by the Epstein estate. Oversight Democrats released select photos to the public Friday.
