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He had initially failed to comply with the subpoena before agreeing to appear.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2026-02-15","source":{"title":"House Oversight Committee — Epstein Investigation","url":"https://oversight.house.gov/","publication":"U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability"}},{"id":19262,"text":"Bill Clinton testified in a closed-door deposition before House lawmakers investigating Epstein in February 2026, the first time a former president was compelled to testify before Congress","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2026-02-15","source":null},{"id":19261,"text":"Bill Clinton willfully failed to comply with the House Oversight Committee deposition subpoena, resulting in a contempt report","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2026-01-15","source":null},{"id":19298,"text":"Bill Clinton testified in sworn deposition to House Oversight Committee in January 2026","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2026-01-01","source":{"title":"ABC News reporting on deposition submissions","url":"https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/secret-service-logs-visitor-records-clinton-epstein-meetings-outside-white-house-f50f2d","publication":"Directed Inquiry — Web Search"}},{"id":19264,"text":"Clinton's name appeared on a list of names documented in Epstein's flight logs and personal contact book published by The Independent on November 12, 2025","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2025-11-12","source":null},{"id":19259,"text":"Maxwell stated in August 2025 DOJ interview that 'President Clinton was my friend, not Epstein's friend' and that she was 'sure' Clinton never visited Little Saint James island","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2025-08-15","source":null},{"id":19260,"text":"The House Oversight Committee voted to subpoena Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton for depositions regarding the Epstein investigation in 2025-2026","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2025-06-15","source":null},{"id":19256,"text":"Clinton spokesperson stated in July 2019 that Clinton 'knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to' and acknowledged four trips on Epstein's airplane plus one meeting at Epstein's Harlem office and one visit to Epstein's New York apartment","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2019-07-08","source":null},{"id":19300,"text":"2017 FOIA request of Secret Service records found no evidence Clinton visited Little St. James","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2017-01-01","source":{"title":"Freedom of Information Act response","url":"https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/jeffrey-epstein-white-house-visits-clinton-administration-faa04a","publication":"Directed Inquiry — Web Search"}},{"id":33337,"text":"After leaving the presidency, Clinton gave paid speeches to major financial institutions that benefited from his deregulatory legislation. Disclosed speeches include appearances at Goldman Sachs (approximately $200,000 per speech), Morgan Stanley, and Citigroup. Between 2001 and 2015, Clinton reportedly earned over $105 million in speaking fees.","confidence":"secondary","dateOccurred":"2015-06-15","source":{"title":"Clintons Earned More Than $25 Million in Speaking Fees Since January 2014","url":"https://www.wsj.com/articles/clintons-earned-more-than-25-million-in-speaking-fees-since-january-2014-14311065","publication":"Wall Street Journal"}},{"id":33339,"text":"Clinton gave his first post-presidential paid speech on February 1, 2001 in Toronto for a fee of $125,000. By 2012 his per-speech rate had risen to approximately $500,000, paid by financial institutions, sovereign wealth funds, and foreign governments.","confidence":"secondary","dateOccurred":"2012-06-15","source":{"title":"Clintons earned more than $30 million over 16 months, financial disclosures show","url":"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clintons-earned-more-than-30-million-over-16-months-financial-disclosures-show/2015/05/15/56bfdfce-faf9-11e4-9ef4-1bb7ce3b3fb7_story.html","publication":"Washington Post"}},{"id":19258,"text":"Giuffre reported that when she asked Epstein about Clinton, Epstein told her that Clinton 'owes me some favors'","confidence":"secondary","dateOccurred":"2011-06-15","source":null},{"id":19257,"text":"Virginia Roberts Giuffre claimed she met Clinton on two occasions including once on Epstein's island, but stressed she was not 'lent out' to Clinton and did not witness inappropriate behavior","confidence":"secondary","dateOccurred":"2011-06-15","source":null},{"id":19898,"text":"President Clinton told ABC News in 2010 'On derivatives, yeah I think they were wrong and I think I was wrong to take their advice'","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2010-00-00","source":{"title":"ABC News interview and POGO reporting","url":"https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/cassandras-our-time-brooksley-born-and-ann-ravel","publication":"Directed Inquiry — Web Search"}},{"id":33338,"text":"The Clinton Foundation received between $1 million and $5 million from the Saudi Arabian government, and between $1 million and $5 million each from Qatar and the UAE, according to foundation donor disclosures. These disclosures were made under a memorandum of understanding with the Obama administration's State Department when Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2009-06-15","source":{"title":"Clinton Foundation — Financial Information and Donor Disclosures","url":"https://www.clintonfoundation.org/about/financial-information","publication":"Clinton Foundation"}},{"id":33343,"text":"Clinton appointed Alan Greenspan to two additional terms as Federal Reserve Chair (1996 and 2000). Greenspan was a consistent opponent of derivatives regulation and publicly stated in the 1990s that derivatives posed no systemic risk — a position he later described before Congress as a 'flaw' in his worldview.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2008-10-23","source":{"title":"Greenspan Congressional Testimony on Financial Crisis","url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-110hhrg55764/pdf/CHRG-110hhrg55764.pdf","publication":"U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform"}},{"id":19253,"text":"Clinton's last known trip on Epstein's plane was in November 2003, according to flight logs","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2003-11-15","source":null},{"id":19255,"text":"In September 2002, Clinton flew aboard Epstein's jet to Africa along with actors Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker to visit HIV/AIDS project sites — Doug Band pitched the idea to Epstein that Clinton use his plane for the trip","confidence":"secondary","dateOccurred":"2002-09-15","source":null},{"id":19295,"text":"September 2002 flight shows Clinton traveling with Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker on Epstein's jet to Africa","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2002-09-01","source":{"title":"Flight logs and multiple news sources","url":"https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/bill-clinton-appearances-context-in-jeffrey-epstein-files-ae1ef8","publication":"Directed Inquiry — Web Search"}},{"id":19294,"text":"February 2002 flight log shows Clinton aboard Epstein's plane with Naomi Campbell","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2002-02-01","source":{"title":"Court documents from Giuffre v. 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The Act codified a legal framework that the Clinton Treasury had already informally established by overruling CFTC chair Brooksley Born's 1998 attempt to regulate OTC derivatives.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2000-12-21","source":{"title":"Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-554)","url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-106publ554/pdf/PLAW-106publ554.pdf","publication":"U.S. Government Publishing Office"}},{"id":19244,"text":"Clinton's administration strongly supported the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, which exempted credit-default swaps and over-the-counter derivatives from regulation","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2000-10-19","source":null},{"id":33342,"text":"Clinton's fiscal year 2000 budget proposed and Congress passed the repeal of the Depression-era Public Utility Holding Company Act, which had restricted the cross-ownership of gas and electric utilities. This deregulation, combined with GLB and CFMA, created the conditions exploited by Enron, which collapsed in December 2001.","confidence":"secondary","dateOccurred":"2000-06-15","source":{"title":"Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (Public Law 106-102)","url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-106publ102/pdf/PLAW-106publ102.pdf","publication":"U.S. Government Publishing Office"}},{"id":33341,"text":"Lynn Forester de Rothschild, who later married Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, used the White House email system to correspond with Clinton in 1997 and 2000, per correspondence released under FOIA. De Rothschild later became a Clinton Foundation donor and Hillary Clinton fundraiser.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2000-06-15","source":{"title":"Clinton Email Archive","url":"https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/","publication":"WikiLeaks / State Department FOIA release"}},{"id":19311,"text":"Clinton administration actively lobbied for Commodity Futures Modernization Act despite Clinton's later claims of being forced by Republican Congress","confidence":"secondary","dateOccurred":"2000-01-01","source":{"title":"Charles Ferguson documentary investigation and Columbia Journalism Review","url":"https://archives.cjr.org/the_audit/bill_clinton_the_republicans_m.php","publication":"Directed Inquiry — Web Search"}},{"id":33333,"text":"Clinton signed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act on November 12, 1999, repealing the Glass-Steagall separation of commercial and investment banking that had been in place since 1933. 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Citigroup had been formed by the 1998 merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group, a transaction that technically violated Glass-Steagall and required the GLB repeal to be retroactively legal.","confidence":"secondary","dateOccurred":"1999-07-15","source":{"title":"Treasury's Rubin Will Leave Government for Citigroup","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/13/business/treasury-s-rubin-will-leave-government-for-citigroup.html","publication":"New York Times"}},{"id":19245,"text":"Clinton installed Robert Rubin and Larry Summers at Treasury, who pushed for Glass-Steagall repeal and derivatives deregulation while suppressing Brooksley Born's attempts to regulate derivatives through the CFTC","confidence":"secondary","dateOccurred":"1999-06-15","source":null},{"id":19249,"text":"Epstein contributed $20,000 to a joint fundraising committee with the Democratic Party and then-Senate hopeful Hillary Clinton in 1999","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"1999-06-15","source":null},{"id":33335,"text":"In 1998, CFTC chair Brooksley Born published a concept release proposing to study regulation of OTC derivatives. Treasury Secretary Rubin, Deputy Secretary Summers, and SEC Chair Arthur Levitt jointly issued a statement urging Congress to prevent the CFTC from proceeding. Congress passed a six-month moratorium on CFTC action. Clinton did not override his Treasury officials' position.","confidence":"secondary","dateOccurred":"1998-05-15","source":{"title":"The Warning — Frontline","url":"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/","publication":"PBS Frontline"}},{"id":33332,"text":"Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the first major overhaul of U.S. telecommunications law since 1934. It removed most limits on media cross-ownership and enabled the consolidation of radio, television, and print ownership into a small number of conglomerates. 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