New email from Sen. Wyden: For over 3 years, my team has been conducting follow the money investigation into Epstein...

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Just today got email from Ron Wyden:

For over three years now, my investigative team and I have been conducting a “follow the money” investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators.

Our investigation first started by digging into the financial dealings of billionaires and wealthy financiers with known ties to Epstein. As we continued to follow the money, my investigators unraveled more and more details about Epstein’s crimes.

From the jump, we’ve known that there must have been big money behind Epstein’s international sex-trafficking operation. He had countless wealthy individuals, banks, and companies helping him get away with – and financing – his crimes. Last year, my investigators unveiled bombshell findings showing that the Treasury Department is sitting on a vast trove of financial documents showing how Epstein made his money, and who helped enable his criminal operation.

These documents contain an ironclad paper trail. They show who helped finance Epstein’s activities, his clients, and what girls and women he paid off. My investigators have seen records detailing many of these transactions with their own eyes.

Predictably, through all of this, the Trump administration continues to stonewall our investigation by refusing to release the files sitting at the Treasury Department. Virtually none of the essential information has been released, and I continue to keep digging to make sure justice is served. That’s why access to the Treasury documents and following the money is so essential. That investigation can’t be tampered with. It provides a clear paper trail between Epstein and his co-conspirators. In a case as big as this one, facts and evidence matter.

Historically speaking, the best way in America to root out corruption is to follow the money wherever it leads. I’m in the home stretch of our investigation, building the strongest case possible to help make sure charges stick against those who were closest to Epstein. We are not going to let up until justice is served, the facts come out, and reforms are implemented to make sure this can never happen.

More soon,

Ron

Edited to add: just found this on the Senate Finance Committee website from yesterday:
https://www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-members-news/wyden-expands-epstein-investigation-with-probe-of-hundreds-of-suspicious-bank-of-new-york-mellon-transactions

There is a whole lot more at the link and you really should read the whole thing.

Wyden Expands Epstein Investigation with Probe of Hundreds of Suspicious Bank of New York Mellon Transactions

Epstein Moved Nearly $400 Million in and out of Accounts at Bank of New York Mellon through 270 Wire Transfers; the Bank Waited Years to Flag the Transactions with the Treasury Department

Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., expanded his investigation of the financing of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking network today with a new probe of Epstein’s client relationship with Bank of New York Mellon (BNY) and the hundreds of millions of dollars he moved in suspicious transactions through BNY accounts.

In a letter to BNY CEO Robin Vince, Senator Wyden stated that committee investigators had uncovered a 2019 filing in which the bank disclosed that Epstein had moved $378 million in and out of BNY accounts through 270 wire transfers, and that the bank had failed to identify a legitimate business purpose for any of those transactions. Senator Wyden’s letter also noted that many of Epstein’s wire transfers exhibited patterns and structuring indicative of money laundering, yet BNY failed to flag the transactions with the Treasury Department until 2019, more than a decade after the transactions were made -- a potential violation of the Bank Secrecy Act.