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 known as earlier than the committee in its investigation of the late intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Gates, who has denied having any information of Epstein’s crimes, will sit for a closed-door transcribed interview on June 10, in line with a supply accustomed to 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 Legal professional 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 Legal professional Common Patrick Davis mentioned that “as a result of Ms. Bondi not can testify in her official capability as Legal professional Common, the Division’s place is that the subpoena not obligates her to seem 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 relating to scheduling her deposition.”
California Rep. Robert Garcia, the highest Democrat on the committee, mentioned in a press release that Bondi “should are available in to testify instantly, and if she defies the subpoena, we’ll start contempt costs within the Congress. The survivors deserve justice.”
Former Legal professional 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 1000’s of instances
Gates is one in every of many influential individuals named within the Division of Justice paperwork in regards to the disgraced financier. Showing within the information will not be essentially a sign of prison wrongdoing.
A spokesperson for Gates mentioned in an emailed assertion to NPR that Gates “welcomes the chance to seem 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 assist their essential work,” the assertion mentioned.
Gates seems 1000’s of instances within the Epstein information, allegedly assembly with Epstein a number of instances after the financier’s conviction in 2008 of intercourse crimes that concerned minors, and at one level touring on Epstein’s non-public airplane.
Epstein was arrested a second time in July 2019 on sex-trafficking costs. 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 remedy to deal with an STI from “intercourse with Russian women.” Epstein additionally mentioned that Gates had wished to attempt to give that STI remedy to French Gates in secret.
French Gates informed NPR in February that the most recent flood of paperwork crammed her with “unbelievable unhappiness” and reminded her of the struggles she confronted in her marriage.
“No matter questions stay there of what — I am unable to 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 accordance with the supply accustomed to the matter however not licensed to share particulars publicly, others who’re scheduled to seem 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 seem 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 Legal professional 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 to this point.
Ghislaine Maxwell
Maxwell was convicted on sex-trafficking costs in 2021 and is serving a 20-year sentence. She was transferred to a minimum-security federal jail for girls in Texas after an interview with then-Deputy Legal professional Common Todd Blanche in July 2025.
Throughout her deposition earlier than the committee in February, Maxwell refused to testify, invoking her Fifth Modification rights in opposition to self-incrimination.
Her lawyer informed the committee that Maxwell would offer “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 have been deposed individually in February after unsuccessfully combating a subpoena from the committee.
Over hours of closed-door testimony, the Clintons each denied information 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 unsuitable,” the previous president mentioned in a gap assertion shared with NPR.
Invoice Clinton seems a number of instances within the paperwork, together with in images 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 means,” in line with a duplicate of his ready opening assertion obtained by NPR.
Kahn is talked about greater than 50,000 instances within the information. Over greater than a decade, Kahn managed Epstein’s funds by 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 information by any means” of Epstein’s crimes in opposition to ladies and women, in line with a duplicate of his ready opening assertion obtained by NPR.
Indyke is broadly thought-about to have been a part of Epstein’s internal 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 dying, 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.
