WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 -- Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's convicted accomplice, will appear before the U.S. House Oversight Committee on Monday via videolink from prison, though she is expected to invoke her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

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Maxwell, serving a 20-year sentence for trafficking underage girls to Epstein, faces questions from lawmakers investigating Epstein's connections to powerful political, business, and social figures, and how information about his crimes was managed.

Despite efforts by Maxwell's legal team to secure immunity to testify, Congress refused, prompting her attorneys to warn that the deposition "would serve no other pur...