House Speaker emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) disclosed to Congress on Wednesday that she was issued a subpoena as part of a federal criminal case in her home state, as her husband’s attacker is headed to trial later this month.
“This is to notify you formally pursuant to Rule Eight of the rules of the House of Representatives, that I, the Honorable Nancy Pelosi, Speaker Emerita, and US Representative for the 11th Congressional District of California, have been served with third-party subpoenas from the prosecution and the defendant to produce documents in a criminal case and United States District Court for the Northern District of California,” the House Clerk read on the floor during proceedings.
“After consultation with the Office of General Counsel, I have determined that compliance with the subpoenas is consistent with the privileges of the House to the extent it requires the production of non-privileged information. The responses to the subpoenas will be identical,” Pelosi’s statement said.
“We have no comment on the possibility that the Speaker Emerita might have received a subpoena and no further comment on the case in general at this time,” a spokesman for the US Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of California told The Post in a statement.
DePape’s public defense attorneys did not immediately respond to a request for comment. An interested party in the case listed on the court docket also did not respond to a request for comment.
A spokesman for Pelosi declined to comment about “an ongoing legal matter,” but a source suggested to The Post that the subpoena was related to David DePape, the 42-year-old man who broke into the former speaker’s San Francisco home in October 2022 and attacked her husband, Paul Pelosi, with a hammer.
“Where’s Nancy?” DePape asked Paul Pelosi and threatened him before the 83-year-old was able to make a 911 call.
Bodycam footage from police officers who later responded to the scene shows DePape opening the door with a hammer before raising it over Paul Pelosi’s head to bludgeon him.
The speaker emerita’s husband was hospitalized and underwent surgery to fix a skull fracture and other injuries.
Two sealed subpoenas were recorded in the case docket on Sept. 19, 2023.
The Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of California in a Monday filing revealed portions of an interview with DePape about his motivations.
The crazed Bay Area man mentioned Pelosi’s “lies” to the American public, calling her “the leader of the pack,” and claiming lies had been spread by former Secretary of State “Hillary [Clinton] and the DNC” about the 2016 Trump presidential campaign.
Prosecutors indicted DePape on Nov. 9, 2022, on two counts of attempted kidnapping of a federal officer or employee and assault on the immediate family member of a federal official.
If convicted on both charges, he faces a maximum sentence of 50 years in prison.
On Friday, the parties will appear at 10 a.m. before US District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley for a final pretrial conference in San Francisco federal court. Jury selection is slated to begin on Nov. 6.
The trial is scheduled to begin on Nov. 13.
Paul Pelosi is expected to take the stand in DePape’s case when the trial begins on Nov. 13, a source told The Post. Court filings also point to Nancy Pelosi appearing as a second witness.
A separate state case involving DePape has a hearing scheduled for Nov. 29, when parties will discuss an eventual trial date.