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House Oversight Chairman James Comer said Friday his committee will issue two subpoenas for billionaire investor Leon Black as part of the panel’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

The dramatic move — in the middle of a closed-door interview with the panel on Capitol Hill — came after Black declined to answer numerous questions about non-disclosure agreements, lawmakers said. The committee issued subpoenas for a deposition and another for information about the NDAs.

“The NDAs are between him and other women,” Comer told reporters. “We want to know was Jeffrey Epstein involved in the NDAs. Was he involved in writing? Was he involved in awarding funds to the women for the NDA? What was the reason for the NDAs?”

Friday’s developments are likely to fuel the argument from some lawmakers and advocates of Epstein survivors that Congress needs to depose key individuals from Epstein’s orbit rather than allowing them to sit for transcribed interviews.