WASHINGTON, July 2 -- Doug Band, a former senior aide to President Bill Clinton, appeared before the House Oversight Committee on Monday as Congress deepened its inquiry into the late Jeffrey Epstein, even as newly released documents described how the convicted sex offender had tried to recruit women from an Ivy League campus into his trafficking network.

Band, who is mentioned more than 200 times across millions of documents released by the Justice Department under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, faced lawmakers who were expected to question him about his relationship with Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, whether he had flown on Epstein's private aircraft, and what he knew about any travel by Clinton to Epstein's private...