The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed all of the Justice Department documents involved in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, and subpoenaed 10 people it wants to hear from. But that list has sparked questions about a number of people who are not on that list.
CNN reported that the House Oversight Committee wants to speak to former Attorneys General Merrick Garland, William Barr, Jeff Sessions, Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder and Alberto Gonzales; former FBI Director James Comey; former special counsel and FBI Director Robert Mueller; former Secretary of State and first lady Hillary Clinton; and former President Bill Clinton.
Axios reported after the list was released that the former prosecutor who gave Epstein a sweetheart sentencing deal was absent from the list.
Alex Acosta offered Epstein a non-prosecution deal, which handed Epstein a minor prison sentence and shut down further federal investigations into his sex trafficking ring of teen girls. Acosta did this under the George W. Bush administration, while Gonzales was Acosta’s boss at the time.
Axios noted that leaving Acosta off the list “raised eyebrows from reporters and followers of the Epstein probe, given Acosta’s role in negotiating the deal at the heart of the scandal.”
After the bombshell New York Times photos of Epstein’s Manhattan house, showing framed photos of him with notable individuals. Among those pictured who are still alive are Donald and Melania Trump, Larry Summers, Elon Musk, Mick Jagger, and Richard Branson. They were not subpoenaed.
The Times also revealed that in 2016, he was given some of the Epstein birthday book letters. Among those who included letters were media mogul Mortimer Zuckerman, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Woody Allen, Joichi Ito, Lawrence M. Krauss, Martin Nowak, and Steve Bannon. None of those individuals were subpoenaed either.
Bannon has bragged that he has 15 hours of footage of interviews with Epstein, which he claims is for a documentary. Neither Bannon nor the footage was subpoenaed.
Huffington Post reporter Yashar Ali was among those who pointed out Acosta’s absence from the list.
The conservative Daily Caller also pointed out the omission.
Legal Analyst Bill Moore attacked the subpoena as “idiotic bulls— beggars belief.”
Acosta was previously subpoenaed by Democrats when they were in charge of Congress in 2019.