Invoice Gates speaks throughout an occasion in New York Metropolis in September 2024. He’s scheduled to testify earlier than a Home committee investigating Jeffrey Epstein.
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Invoice Gates is scheduled to testify earlier than the Home Oversight Committee in June, including to the checklist of distinguished figures referred to as earlier than the committee in its investigation of the late intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Gates, who has denied having any data of Epstein’s crimes, will sit for a closed-door transcribed interview on June 10, in keeping with a supply aware of the matter who spoke on the situation of anonymity as a result of they weren’t licensed to share the small print publicly. Gates’ scheduled look was first reported by MSNOW.
Former Lawyer Common Pam Bondi was subpoenaed by the committee in March to debate her position in overseeing the discharge of the Epstein information, however is not going to seem for her scheduled deposition on April 14.
In a letter to Kentucky Republican Rep. James Comer, the committee chair, Assistant Lawyer Common Patrick Davis mentioned that “as a result of Ms. Bondi now not can testify in her official capability as Lawyer Common, the Division’s place is that the subpoena now not obligates her to look on April 14.”
The Home Oversight Committee mentioned in a press release that the committee “will contact Pam Bondi’s private counsel to debate subsequent steps concerning scheduling her deposition.”
California Rep. Robert Garcia, the highest Democrat on the committee, mentioned in a press release that Bondi “should are available to testify instantly, and if she defies the subpoena, we’ll start contempt expenses within the Congress. The survivors deserve justice.”
Former Lawyer Common Pam Bondi testifies earlier than the Senate Judiciary Committee throughout her affirmation listening to on Jan. 15, in Washington, D.C.
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Gates seems in Epstein information hundreds of occasions
Gates is one among many influential individuals named within the Division of Justice paperwork concerning the disgraced financier. Showing within the information shouldn’t be essentially a sign of legal wrongdoing.
A spokesperson for Gates mentioned in an emailed assertion to NPR that Gates “welcomes the chance to look earlier than the Committee.”
“Whereas he by no means witnessed or participated in any of Epstein’s unlawful conduct, he’s wanting ahead to answering all of the committee’s inquiries to help their vital work,” the assertion mentioned.
Gates seems hundreds of occasions within the Epstein information, allegedly assembly with Epstein a number of occasions after the financier’s conviction in 2008 of intercourse crimes that concerned minors, and at one level touring on Epstein’s personal airplane.
Epstein was arrested a second time in July 2019 on sex-trafficking expenses. He died in jail a couple of month later.
Gates has additionally drawn scrutiny for emails mentioning his now ex-wife, Melinda French Gates. In a single occasion, Epstein claims that he helped Gates get medicine to deal with an STI from “intercourse with Russian women.” Epstein additionally mentioned that Gates had needed to attempt to give that STI medicine to French Gates in secret.
French Gates advised NPR in February that the newest flood of paperwork crammed her with “unbelievable disappointment” and reminded her of the struggles she confronted in her marriage.
“No matter questions stay there of what — I can not even start to know all of it — these questions are for these individuals and for even my ex-husband,” French Gates mentioned. “They should reply to these issues, not me.”
In keeping with the supply aware of the matter however not licensed to share particulars publicly, others who’re scheduled to look earlier than the committee embrace Ted Waitt, the co-founder of Gateway who allegedly had a romantic relationship with Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, on April 30; Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who the Republican-led committee beforehand introduced would voluntarily testify, on Might 6; and Tova Noel, one of many officers on the Metropolitan Correctional Heart in Manhattan assigned to protect Epstein the night time he died, on Might 18.
Waitt’s basis didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. Comer, the committee chairman, mentioned in a March assertion that Lutnick “proactively agreed to look voluntarily” and he “commend[s] his demonstrated dedication to transparency.” Noel additionally didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Who has already testified?
Eight different distinguished figures have already testified earlier than the committee: former Lawyer Common Invoice Barr, former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, Maxwell, Les Wexner, former President Invoice Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Richard Kahn and Darren Indyke.
Listed below are a number of of the notable individuals who have testified thus far.
Ghislaine Maxwell
Maxwell was convicted on sex-trafficking expenses in 2021 and is serving a 20-year sentence. She was transferred to a minimum-security federal jail for ladies in Texas after an interview with then-Deputy Lawyer Common Todd Blanche in July 2025.
Throughout her deposition earlier than the committee in February, Maxwell refused to testify, invoking her Fifth Modification rights towards self-incrimination.
Her lawyer advised the committee that Maxwell would supply “the unfiltered fact about what occurred” if the committee granted her immunity or President Trump granted her clemency.
Invoice and Hillary Clinton
Former President Invoice Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had been deposed individually in February after unsuccessfully combating a subpoena from the committee.
Over hours of closed-door testimony, the Clintons each denied data of Epstein’s crimes previous to his responsible plea in 2008 for soliciting prostitution and procuring a minor for prostitution.
“I noticed nothing, and I did nothing incorrect,” the previous president mentioned in a gap assertion shared with NPR.
Invoice Clinton seems a number of occasions within the paperwork, together with in photographs with Epstein.
In her testimony, Hillary Clinton denied having ever met Epstein.
The committee launched video of the Clintons’ full depositions.
Richard Kahn
Richard Kahn, Epstein’s former accountant, testified earlier than the committee in a closed-door deposition in March. Kahn mentioned he was “not conscious” of Epstein’s crimes and regrets that he might have “unknowingly assisted Epstein in any approach,” in keeping with a duplicate of his ready opening assertion obtained by NPR.
Kahn is talked about greater than 50,000 occasions within the information. Over greater than a decade, Kahn managed Epstein’s funds by means of his firm HBRK Associates Inc., advising on quite a few transactions, together with medical reimbursements for the “women.”
Darren Indyke
Darren Indyke, Epstein’s longtime private legal professional, testified earlier than the committee in a closed-door deposition in March that he had “no data in any respect” of Epstein’s crimes towards girls and women, in keeping with a duplicate of his ready opening assertion obtained by NPR.
Indyke is extensively thought of to have been a part of Epstein’s interior circle, together with Kahn. In 2017, Indyke was flagged by a financial institution for taking out “structured money transactions” from Epstein’s account to keep away from federal necessities.
Two days earlier than his demise, Epstein made Indyke a co-executor of his property, together with Kahn, the accountant. Each are named as beneficiaries of Epstein’s property.
NPR’s Luke Garrett contributed reporting to this story.
