WASHINGTON >> The chair of the House’s chief investigative committee said Monday that the Justice Department would miss his panel’s subpoena deadline today for providing files related to accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, but would begin sharing some records starting Friday.
Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., who leads the Oversight Committee, issued the subpoena to Attorney General Pam Bondi this month after a few GOP lawmakers on the panel teamed with Democrats to force his hand. It set an Aug. 19 deadline for the Justice Department to give the committee all of its files related to Epstein, the disgraced financier who died in federal prison while awaiting trial in 2019.
But before his announcement Monday, Comer signaled to reporters at the Capitol that he did not expect the Justice Departme