The House Oversight Committee’s top Democrat raised concerns about a Justice Department official’s decision to represent Pam Bondi during her testimony about the release of files related to the sex trafficking investigation into disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The participation of Harmeet Dhillon, a political appointee leading the Justice Department’s civil rights division, as an attorney for the former attorney general during her scheduled congressional testimony this month “raises serious ethical concerns and conflicts of interest,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) wrote in a Monday letter.
Garcia said Dhillon so far appears to be representing Bondi in an official capacity, though she ...