Members of the House Oversight Committee are scheduled Wednesday to depose retail billionaire Leslie Wexner, whose financial backing helped propel Jeffrey Epstein from relative obscurity to extraordinary wealth before their relationship collapsed amid allegations of large-scale financial misconduct.

Newly disclosed documents indicate that after learning in 2007 that Epstein had allegedly misappropriated hundreds of millions of dollars, Wexner chose to quietly resolve the matter. At the time, Epstein was under federal investigation for sex crimes and money laundering, according to internal emails and a prosecutorial memo.

Wexner, the founder of L Brands and longtime force behind retail brands such as Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works, has faced heightened scrutiny over his past ties to Epstein since the financier’s arrest in 2019 and subsequent death by suicide in a New York jail cell.

According to a 2019 email from an FBI agent involved in the sex crimes investigation, federal prosecutors in New York initially included Wexner among a group of potential co-conspirators for review following Epstein’s July 2019 arrest. However, investigators later concluded there was “limited evidence regarding his involvement.”

In a statement  following the Justice Department’s recent release of additional Epstein-related files, a spokesperson for Wexner said prosecutors informed his legal counsel in 2019 that he was “neither a co-conspirator nor target in any respect.”

The spokesperson added that Wexner “cooperated fully by providing background information on Epstein and was never contacted again.”