The House Oversight Committee announced Monday that former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta will appear voluntarily before the panel next month as part of its investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein case.

Attorneys for Epstein’s victims had raised concerns about why the Republican-led committee did not include Acosta, who served in the first Trump administration, when it sent subpoenas to a number of high profile former government officials as part of the probe.

Acosta was the U.S. Attorney in Florida for the Southern District of Florida in 2008 when the office reached a secret non-prosecution agreement with Epstein, who wound up pleading guilty to state charges involving a single underaged victim, protecting him from federal prosecution.

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