This week, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) detonated a political bomb under the floorboards of Trump’s house of cards with a damning New York Times exposé. Wyden, who’s been quietly following the money trail behind Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking empire for three years, just confirmed what many suspected: Big banks knowingly moved Epstein’s dirty money, and the Feds—under both Trump and Biden—are still sitting on explosive documents that could connect the dots between Epstein’s global abuse network and the elites who enabled him
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Read Free via archived articles by WSJ – “Dozens of Jeffrey Epstein’s friends sent him bawdy letters for a 50th birthday album. One was from Donald Trump.
The letter bearing Trump’s name, which was reviewed by WSJ, contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman. Pages from the album—collected by Ghislaine Maxwell in 2003, before Epstein was first arrested in 2006—are among the documents examined by Justice Department officials who investigated Epstein and Maxwell years ago, according to people who have reviewed the pages.
It’s unclear if any of the pages are part of the Trump administration’s recent review. In an interview, Trump denied writing the letter or drawing the picture. “This is not me. This is a fake thing,” he said. Earlier, the president’s top spokeswoman said he won’t recommend a special prosecutor in the case…The “President and his administration have been criticized for backtracking on promises for more transparency in the case…”
- See also “Impact Statements” made by some of the victims of convicted sex offender Giuslaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein – Case 1:20-cr-00330-AJN Document 674 Filed 06/24/22 – 29 pages, PDF.
- See also The New York Times – no paywall – “..Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, the top Democrat on the powerful Senate Finance Committee, has been digging into Mr. Epstein’s financial network for the past three years. Some members of his staff have viewed confidential files that shed light on the immense sums of money that, they say, Mr. Epstein moved through the banking system to fuel his vast sex-trafficking network. In particular, filings by four big banks flagged more than $1.5 billion in transactions — including thousands of wire transfers for the purchase and sale of artwork for rich friends, fees paid to Mr. Epstein by wealthy individuals, and payments to numerous women, the senator’s office found. The filings came after Mr. Epstein was arrested in 2019 on federal sex trafficking charges. Large money transfers to individuals, foreign countries or obscure companies are the kind of things banks are supposed to be examining as potentially suspicious. Some of the Epstein money transfers disclosed in a report from JPMorgan Chase involved accounts at two Russian banks before those institutions were subject to U.S. sanctions. A few transactions red-flagged were for as much as $100 million…The bank records reviewed by Mr. Wyden’s staff — called suspicious activity reports or SARs — are meant to be an early warning system for law enforcement about signs of illegal activity. As dictated by federal law, the reports are so confidential that banks can’t even acknowledge filing them, and people who have seen the documents are under great constraint as to what they can say about them…”
- See also Following New Epstein Revelations, Wyden Renews Demand for Trump Administration to Produce Epstein Files. Treasury Department is Refusing to Produce Key FinCEN Epstein Files in its Possession, Hampering Further Investigation of Epstein’s Financial Backers and Complicit Banks. Following new revelations about Jeffrey Epstein’s financial ties to a prominent Trump donor and accusations regarding the president himself, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today renewed his demand that the Trump administration produce key Epstein documents in the possession of the Department of Justice and the U.S. Treasury. “This Administration began with reassuring promises that the Epstein case would receive the attention and diligence it deserves … Fast forward to the present, where the released section of the Epstein files contains little relevant or groundbreaking information, with some pages entirely redacted,” Senator Wyden wrote in a letter to the attorney general, FBI director and Treasury secretary. “This reversal of commitments to investigate those who facilitated Epstein’s criminal activities comes as President Trump and his advisors’ own ties to Epstein are being exposed.”
- See also Via Politico Playbook – What is in the files that aren’t being released? ABC’s James Hill and Peter Charalambous write that the earlier “phase one” disclosure of the Epstein files contained a little-noticed “three-page catalog of evidence” that “offers a roadmap to the remaining trove of records that President Donald Trump’s administration has declined to release, including logs of who potentially visited Epstein’s private island and the records of a wiretap of [Ghislaine] Maxwell’s phone”
