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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 Epsteins crimes.
From the jump, weve known that there must have been big money behind Epsteins 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 Epsteins 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. Thats why access to the Treasury documents and following the money is so essential. That investigation cant 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. Im 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 Epsteins sex trafficking network today with a new probe of Epsteins 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 Wydens letter also noted that many of Epsteins 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.
travelingthrulife
(4,541 posts)Trump/Epstein/Putin/Oligarch Sex Trafficking, Blackmail and Money Laundering Emporium.
JT45242
(3,864 posts)Those three will be a common thread.
AllaN01Bear
(28,667 posts)chouchou
(2,841 posts)Epstein hung himself. Yeah Right..
Amaryllis
(11,015 posts)chouchou
(2,841 posts)Trueblue1968
(19,101 posts)Amaryllis
(11,015 posts)Uncle Joe
(64,319 posts)Thanks for the thread Amaryllis
Lulu KC
(8,557 posts)Thanks, Senator!
Amaryllis
(11,015 posts)calimary
(89,148 posts)Wyden & Merkley. They both make me proud!
electric_blue68
(26,071 posts)Amaryllis
(11,015 posts)BidenRocks
(2,834 posts)Stay tuned (more soon). That was Lost In Space and Batman!
Ya didn't happen to find a birth certificate by any chance.
This reads like AI. Trump going down soon! (more soon)
Just do it!
BigmanPigman
(54,626 posts)I love DU!
Amaryllis
(11,015 posts)so many have tried to cover it all up. He's been on this for years, trying to call attention to it. But it sounds like he's really got the receipts now.
Cha
(317,145 posts)we Lots of Do have Great Dems working for US and Democracy.
Joinfortmill
(20,204 posts)Expect more craziness from him
milestogo
(22,657 posts)spanone
(141,085 posts)FOLLOW THE MONEY
dlk
(13,130 posts)Shredding and deleting millions of documents takes time.
flamingdem
(40,800 posts)Should be spectacular if we ever get to see these files.
Tetrachloride
(9,416 posts)Trump doesn't care about investigations as much as politicians do.
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ancianita
(43,005 posts)RockRaven
(18,776 posts)in which Biden et al were nominally in control of Treasury a(nd the DOJ) and did... what... with this information? Apparently nothing, is the implication from Wyden.
Which would make this another example of how the regulators are totally captured by the industries they are supposed to police, regardless of who sits in the WH.
Attilatheblond
(8,368 posts)We keep reminding the population that Trump is not a king. I tend to remember that Biden was under similar constraints.
Amaryllis
(11,015 posts)progressoid
(52,633 posts)And why the treasury department? That implies there were some financial laws broken.
The whole thing stinks.
Attilatheblond
(8,368 posts)when those citizens were LAWFULLY videoing ICE from a safe distance and NOT interfering. All kinds of threats, intimidation (with guns in hand) and trying to instill fear into what will happen to such citizens and their families. No lie, no threat, is too vile for these ICE men to use. Likely most are too ignorant to even know they are repeating fantasy propaganda from Noem and the Nazi guy cos player. We found out a lot of them are basically illiterate and unemployable in modern society.
But Trump the mob, a lot of very wealthy people, banks, and just about any GOP office holder in the nation, is doing everything and anything to subvert investigation into the many violations of laws governing financial transactions. The Epstein web has many, many flies entangled
The rest of the information being withheld, IN VIOLATION OF THE LAW TO RELEASE ALL THE FILES, must be amazingly damaging to just about anyone with R affiliations who has been wielding power in the US for decades. All the back room deals, all the 'we'll give you this if you help us hide that' must be barely holding up the foundation of government/banking industry operations.
And we STILL don't know who paid off Kavanaugh's rather copious debts so he would appear squeaky clean for his confirmation hearing farce.
They are willing to trigger an actual civil shooting war to distract and dissuade people from wanting information.
Kudos to Wyden and the rest of the brave souls digging to expose the truth. May their tribe increase and prevail.
FakeNoose
(40,334 posts)I'm sure he has good info, and he knows it's worth staying on it. Bank of New York is up the creek with out a paddle. Also it seems really suspicious that Chase Manhattan Bank handled many years of transactions for Epstein too. SARs were never filed until 2019 when Epstein was finally arrested.
Thank you Senator Wyden for staying on top of this investigation! Whether it leads to Chump or not, we don't know yet.... But Chump's deflection behavior has been very suspicious.