Former FBI Director and Trump special counsel Robert Mueller claims he has Parkinson's disease, and "cannot comply with a request to testify this week before a congressional committee investigating the government's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigations," the NY Times originally reported Sunday evening before stealth-editing their article to lead with the committee having withdrawn their request. 

It's a little unclear how it went down since the Times never issued a correction.

Anyway, this sudden Parkinsons' diagnosis came shortly after the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said it would subpoena Mueller to testify on Tuesday over the FBI's handling of Jeffrey Epstein while he was director of the FBI. 

Of note, committee chair James Comer (R-KY) wrote in a letter to Mueller; Because you were F.B.I. director during the time when Mr. Epstein was under investigation by the F.B.I., the committee believes that you possess knowledge and information relevant to its investigation."

In 2008, the U.S. attorney in Miami, Alexander Acosta, negotiated a so-called nonprosecution agreement with Mr. Epstein's lawyers. Under the deal, federal prosecutors declined to charge Mr. Epstein but he pleaded guilty to a lesser state charge of soliciting a minor for prostitution. As part of that agreement, Mr. Epstein served 13 months at a local prison, where he was allowed to leave custody and work out of his office six days a week.

After federal prosecutors indicted Mr. Epstein in 2019, the deal reached in 2008 was widely criticized, as it was seen as far too favorable to Mr. Epstein, who, according to court documents, continued to abuse underage girls in the years that followed. It is not clear how much involvement Mr. Mueller had in the Epstein investigation. -NYT