(CNN) — House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer said in a statement on Monday that the Justice Department will start turning over records related to Jeffrey Epstein on Friday.

This comes after the committee subpoenaed the Justice Department for the records and set a deadline of August 19.

“Officials with the Department of Justice have informed us that the Department will begin to provide Epstein-related records to the Oversight Committee this week on Friday,” Comer said.

The announcement by the committee chair came the same day that former Attorney General Bill Barr appeared on Capitol Hill for a deposition by the panel about matters related to Jeffrey Epstein, the first of 10 high-profile Democratic and Republican witnesses subpoenaed by the committee to testify on the case.

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