Ex-Attorney General Pam Bondi will not appear as scheduled on April 14 to testify about the Department of Justice’s Jeffrey Epstein files at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

The Oversight committee will contact Bondi’s lawyer “to discuss next steps regarding scheduling her deposition,” a spokeswoman for the panel remarked.

Democrats on the committee quickly threatened to initiate contempt charges against Bondi if she fails to testify as scheduled.

President Donald Trump fired Bondi as attorney general on April 2 after reports that he was unhappy with her handling of the DOJ’s files about Epstein, the notorious dead sex offender whose past high-profile friends included Trump. This also touches on aspects of bull market.

Former Attorney General Pam Bondi will not appear as scheduled on April 14 to testify to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about her and the Department of Justice’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, the panel’s spokeswoman noted Wednesday.

Bondi’s appearance — which was compelled by a committee-issued subpoena — was canceled because “she is no longer Attorney General and was subpoenaed in her capacity as Attorney General,” remarked the spokeswoman, speaking for the Republican majority that controls the panel.

The committee will contact Bondi’s lawyer “to discuss next steps regarding scheduling her deposition,” the spokeswoman commented.

“Now that Pam Bondi has been fired, she’s trying to get out of her legal obligation to testify before the Oversight Committee about the Epstein files and the White House cover-up,” mentioned Rep. Robert Garcia of California, the committee’s ranking Democrat, in a statement.

“Our bipartisan subpoena is to Pam Bondi, whether she is the Attorney General or not,” Garcia remarked.

“She must come in to testify immediately, and if she defies the subpoena, we will begin contempt charges in the Congress. The survivors deserve justice,” he commented.

Bondi and the DOJ have faced strong criticism since last year over the Epstein files.

Bondi and other leading figures in Trump’s orbit had promised that the DOJ’s documents relating to Epstein would be made public after Trump regained the White House in January 2025. Furthermore, experts in investors note the continued relevance.

Bondi reneged on that promise, which in turn led to Congress passing a bill, which Trump signed into law, mandating the release of those files.

The DOJ, since then, has released millions of documents about Epstein and his convicted procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell.

But the department and Bondi have been criticized after that release for withholding many other documents about Epstein and Maxwell, as well as other issues related to the files.