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Ghislaine Maxwell to be deposed by House Oversight Committee in Epstein inquiry

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) announced Wednesday that Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, will sit for a deposition next month.

“I agree we need to hear from Ghislaine Maxwell,” said Comer. “We’ve been trying to get her in for a deposition, her lawyers have been saying that she’s going to plead the Fifth, but we have nailed down a date, Feb. 9 where Ghislaine Maxwell will be deposed by the committee.”

Comer made the announcement in the middle of a House Oversight Committee markup on a resolution to hold former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in contempt for refusing a similar request for deposed interviews.

Maxwell took part in a multiday interview with a Justice Department senior official last year. The convicted sex offender was moved from a Florida prison to a women’s prison in Texas last year.

Maxwell’s deposition is part of the larger investigation by the House Oversight Committee. The panel has released multiple batches of documents related to the Epstein files, many of which came from the committee’s subpoena of the late sex offender’s estate. The oversight committee has also conducted two interviews with former Attorney General Bill Barr and Alex Acosta, former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida and former Secretary of Labor.

The oversight inquiry has continued despite Congress voting to release the full Epstein files last year. While the DOJ has made some files public, Democrats have accused the Trump administration of slow-walking the release of all documents pertaining to Epstein.

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