Lesley Groff (C), a former assistant to Jeffrey Epstein, arrives to testify at a closed-door interview with the Home Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill on June 09, 2026 in Washington, DC.
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Lesley Groff, the previous govt assistant to infamous intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, started a transcribed interview on Tuesday morning by the Home Oversight and Authorities Reform Committee behind closed doorways.
Groff’s look earlier than the committee comes a day earlier than Microsoft co-founder Invoice Gates is because of communicate to the identical panel, which for months has interviewed a spread of high-profile folks linked to Epstein.
Groff labored for Epstein for practically 20 years, and her identify seems greater than 150,000 occasions within the Epstein recordsdata launched by the Division of Justice. Groff was liable for arranging Epstein’s conferences with distinguished folks and scheduling massages for him from ladies, MS NOW famous.
Neither Groff nor Gates has been charged with any wrongdoing in reference to Epstein, who killed himself in August 2019 in a federal jail in New York, weeks after being arrested on baby intercourse trafficking expenses.
Groff’s interview was attended for an unknown cause by Home Chaplain Margaret Grun Kibben, who doesn’t usually attend such proceedings.
Groff’s legal professional, Michael Bachner, has stated “she had no prison involvement with Epstein.”
“Lesley is just disgusted by Epstein’s conduct and is heartbroken by what his victims endured,” Bachner stated in March, MS NOW reported.
Rep. James Comer, the Kentucky Republican who chairs the committee, instructed MS NOW the panel has referred two names of people to the Division of Justice. He didn’t determine them.
“I feel the interviews that we have executed have been very productive,” Comer instructed reporters on Tuesday morning.
“We’re bringing in a very powerful folks in the entire Epstein prison enterprise which might be nonetheless alive, and hopefully we’ll get the proof to the American folks that there is a possibility for accountability,” Comer stated.
Requested if the committee would subpoena performing Legal professional Basic Todd Blanche, Comer stated the panel’s Democrats already had the prospect to query Blanche when he and then-Legal professional Basic Pam Bondi briefed the committee on the DOJ’s so-called Epstein recordsdata in March.
President Donald Trump on Monday formally nominated Blanche as legal professional normal, a submit that requires Senate affirmation. Trump fired Bondi in April over displeasure along with her dealing with of the controversy over the Epstein recordsdata.
Congress in November handed a invoice over Trump’s objection that required the DOJ to launch all of its paperwork associated to Epstein. Trump shortly signed that invoice into regulation, and the DOJ has launched hundreds of thousands of Epstein case paperwork, however Blanche stated on Jan. 30 that the DOJ had withheld about 2.5 million extra and wouldn’t launch any extra.
Victims of Epstein objected to the DOJ’s resolution.
Bondi, when she was interviewed by the Home Oversight committee two weeks in the past, stated she had assigned Blanche to deal with the discharge of the recordsdata.
Trump was a longtime pal of Epstein earlier than the 2 males had a falling out in early 2000s.
Blanche is Trump’s former prison protection lawyer.
