House Oversight Subpoenas Epstein Estate in Widening Probe

The House Oversight and Reform Committee subpoenaed the estate of Jeffrey Epstein Monday, demanding a wide range of documents including a reported leatherbound book compiled for Epstein’s 50th birthday, his will, records tied to his nonprosecution agreement and contact and address books, as lawmakers widen an examination of the disgraced financier’s ties and the handling of the federal investigation. Committee Chairman James Comer set a September 8 deadline for the estate’s coexecutors to turn over the materials and said the records are needed to review potential mismanagement of the government’s probe, the circumstances of Epstein’s 2019 death and possible reforms to sex trafficking enforcement and ethics rules for public officials.

Comer’s subpoena, delivered to coexecutors Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, seeks more than a dozen categories of records dating from 1990 through August 2019, including videos taken at Epstein properties, call and visitor logs, financial transactions and “any document or record that could reasonably be construed to be a potential list of clients involved in sex, sex acts, or sex trafficking facilitated by” Epstein. The committee specifically...