Bill Gates Hires Ex-Oversight Counsel for June 11 Epstein Testimony
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Updated · The New York Times · Jun 9
Bill Gates Hires Ex-Oversight Counsel for June 11 Epstein Testimony
1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jun 9
Summary
Jake Greenberg, until December the House Oversight Committee’s top investigations counsel, has been advising Bill Gates ahead of a private transcribed interview on Wednesday.
James Comer requested Gates’s testimony in March after Justice Department files showed Gates met Jeffrey Epstein multiple times and that close advisers stayed in frequent contact with Epstein until 2019.
The arrangement is not unusual, but ethics experts said hiring a former leader of the same inquiry creates problematic optics in a high-profile congressional investigation.
Gates’s ties to Epstein have already shaken his philanthropic empire: the Gates Foundation authorized an outside review, and Gates apologized to staff this year over the relationship.