Pamela J. Bondi

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's 111-page transcribed interview of former Attorney General Pamela J. Bondi, taken in Room 2154 of the Rayburn House Office Building on Friday, May 29, 2026, from 9:05 a.m. to 12:50 p.m. Chairman James Comer requested it as part of the Committee's investigation into the Epstein and Maxwell cases, the operation of sex-trafficking rings, and related ethics questions. Bondi had been subpoenaed; asked whether she had counsel in a personal capacity, she answered "Only as my -- when I was Attorney General for the United States, and that's Harmeet Dhillon." Dhillon identified herself as appearing on behalf of the Department of Justice, said Bondi was appearing voluntarily in her official capacity only, and objected repeatedly that anything outside Bondi's own tenure was beyond scope. Minority counsel disputed both the limitation and Dhillon's standing to assert it. Bondi testified that then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, by then Acting Attorney General, supervised the files release day to day, and referred questions to Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward, U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton and the Bureau of Prisons. After the majority's rounds she returned to the record to say that Rep. Robert Garcia's characterisation of that testimony as blaming Blanche was "100 percent incorrect" and that "I'm not blaming anything on Todd." She declined every question touching conversations with President Trump, including whether any occurred. She answered at length on redaction failures and on Ghislaine Maxwell's transfer; she would not say either way whether any named individual was under investigation. Eleven exhibits were entered, one an email headed "Epstein victim list" that counsel agreed on the record would be sealed.

January 31, 2026 The Honorable Todd Blanche Deputy Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530 Dear Deputy Attorney General Blanche: I am writing to request that the Department of Justice (DOJ) immediately arrange for Members and staff of the House Committee on the Judiciary to review the complete unredacted Epstein files next week. Yesterday, the Department released a tranche of documents related to disgraced sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and claims to have fully satisfied its obligations under the Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA).1 In your news conference announcing the materials’ release, you said: “If any Member of Congress wishes to review any portions of the response of production in any unredacted form, they’re welcome to make arrangements with the Department to do so, and we’re happy to do that.”2 The Democratic Members of the House Judiciary Committee do wish to review the files. Our review is particularly urgent because DOJ itself claims to have identified over 6 million potentially responsive pages, but after releasing only about half of them-including over 200,000 pages that DOJ redacted or withheld-says strangely that it has fully complied with the Act. We seek to ensure that your redactions comply with the Act’s requirement that materials be withheld only in narrow circumstances, such as protecting victims’ personally identifiable information, and not on the basis of “embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary.”3 Moreover, in light of Attorney General Pam Bondi’s appearance in a hearing before the Committee on February 11, it is vital that Committee Members and staff have an opportunity to review the unredacted files in 1 Letter from Pamela J. Bondi, Att’y Gen., & Todd Blanche, Deputy Att’y Gen., U.S. Dep’t of Justice, to Congress (Jan. 30, 2026), https://www.justice.gov/letter-to-

COMPLAINT against Pamela J. Bondi, Executive Office for United States Attorneys, Executive Office of the President, FRANCEY HAKES, Office of Personnel Management, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, United States Department of Justice. (Filing Fee $ 405.00, Receipt Number ANYSDC-31711174)Document filed by MAURENE COMEY. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A, # 2 Exhibit B).(Blain, Jennifer) (Entered: 09/15/2025)

DECLARATION of Karen Folster Lesperance in Support re: 31 MOTION to Dismiss for Lack of Jurisdiction .. Document filed by Pamela J. Bondi, Executive Office for United States Attorneys, Executive Office of the President, Francey Hakes, Office of Personnel Management, United States Department of Justice, United States of America. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1- MSPB Initial Appeal, # 2 Exhibit 2- MSPB Acknowledgement Notice, # 3 Exhibit 3 - MSPB FAQ re: Restoration of Quorum, # 4 Exhibit 4 - MSPB Ord

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - v. - JEFFREY EPSTEIN, Defendant. 19 Cr. 490 (RMB) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - v. - GHISLAINE MAXWELL, Defendant. 20 Cr. 330 (PAE) GOVERNMENT’S MEMORANDUM IN RESPONSE TO THE COURT’S ORDERS OF JULY 22,2025 PAMELA J. BONDI United States Attorney General TODD BLANCHE Deputy United States Attorney General United States Department of Justice JAY CLAYTON United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York 26

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - v. - JEFFREY EPSTEIN, Defendant. 19 Cr. 490 (RMB) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - v. - GHISLAINE MAXWELL, Defendant. 20 Cr. 330 (PAE) GOVERNMENT’S MEMORANDUM IN RESPONSE TO THE COURT’S ORDERS OF JULY 22, 2025 PAMELA J. BONDI United States Attorney General TODD BLANCHE Deputy United States Attorney General United States Department of Justice JAY CLAYTON United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York 26 Federal Plaza 37th Floor New York, New York 10278 Case 1:19-cr-00490-RMB Document 66 Filed 07/29/25 Page 1 of 10 I. Preliminary Statement The Government respectfully submits this memorandum in response to the Court’s Orders concerning the two pending motions to unseal grand jury transcripts (Epstein Dkt. 61; Maxwell Dkt. 785) in cases prosecuted in this District. (Epstein Dkt. 63 at 1–3; Maxwell Dkt. 789 at 1–3). This memorandum, as directed by the Court, addresses the specific facts and factors highlighted in the Court’s Orders relevant to the particular grand jury materials at issue here. (Epstein Dkt. 63 at 1–3; Maxwell Dkt. 789 at 1–3). In order to ensure that “[t]ransparency in this process … not be at the expense of [the Government’s] obligation under the law to protect victims” (Epstein Dkt. 61 at 2; Maxwell Dkt. 785 at 2), the Government also respectfully requests leave to file a supplemental submission once the Government and the Court have received any filings from the victims or others referenced in the transcripts. II. The Court’s Orders As the Court recognized (Epstein Dkt. 63 at 1–2; Maxwell Dkt. 789 at 1–2), the Second Circuit has held that “there are certain ‘special circumstances’ in which release of grand jury records is appropriate even outside the boundaries of the rule.” In re Craig, 131 F.3d 99, 102 (2d Cir. 1997); see also In re Biaggi, 478 F.2d 489, 494 (2d Ci