Overview
- Multiple outlets reported Tuesday that Bill Gates will sit for a transcribed interview on June 10 and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick will do so on May 6, with both denying involvement in Epstein’s crimes and saying they will cooperate.
- The committee also scheduled Ted Waitt for April 30, former corrections officer Tova Noel for May 18, and former Epstein assistant Lesley Groff for June 9, all as sworn, closed-door sessions.
- A transcribed interview is conducted under oath behind closed doors, producing an official transcript that investigators can use later in hearings or reports.
- Former Attorney General Pam Bondi is under subpoena for an April 14 deposition, though her recent firing has raised questions about whether committee leaders will enforce it.
- The scheduling follows the Justice Department’s release of millions of Epstein-related documents that name many public figures without alleging crimes, and it comes as Gates calls his meetings a mistake and Lutnick acknowledges a 2012 lunch on Epstein’s island.