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Amaryllis

(11,015 posts)
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 09:43 PM 19 hrs ago

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

Last edited Sat Jan 17, 2026, 12:18 AM - Edit history (3)

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.

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New email from Sen. Wyden: For over 3 years, my team has been conducting follow the money investigation into Epstein... (Original Post) Amaryllis 19 hrs ago OP
This is the backbone of the autocratic nightmare travelingthrulife 19 hrs ago #1
You left out bone saw. The Emirates. And Deutsch bank JT45242 19 hrs ago #4
and a lot of other "shady deals " too. AllaN01Bear 5 hrs ago #19
Sen. Wyden? You be careful. Yes, I'm sure you've thought about what we're thinking. chouchou 19 hrs ago #2
He's got a whole team on this and is smart enough to have all the info spread around so it can't be killed. Amaryllis 19 hrs ago #3
Ah..Thanks! Good to know. chouchou 8 hrs ago #16
Sen. Ron Wyden is my Senator !!!!! He is awesome. hi Trueblue1968 3 hrs ago #23
Hi to you! We are so fortunate to have Wyden and Merkley. Amaryllis 3 hrs ago #24
Kicked and recommended Uncle Joe 18 hrs ago #5
Oh, he's good Lulu KC 18 hrs ago #6
He is VERY good and also the ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee. :) Amaryllis 18 hrs ago #7
He's one of my Senators! calimary 2 min ago #32
He was on MSNOW talkng about this a night or two ago. electric_blue68 18 hrs ago #8
Do you remember which show it was? I tried to find it but didn't. Amaryllis 15 hrs ago #14
I'm old and jaded BidenRocks 17 hrs ago #9
I just saw this on Meidas and checked out DU and it is already posted... BigmanPigman 17 hrs ago #10
There is a LOT on the Senate Finance Committee website that was just posted yesterday. You can really see why Amaryllis 17 hrs ago #11
TY Kick for Sen. Wyden, Amaryllis.. Cha 16 hrs ago #12
Thank you! Trump is clearly going mad over this. Joinfortmill 16 hrs ago #13
Thank you, Senator Wyden milestogo 15 hrs ago #15
K&R spanone 8 hrs ago #17
For the rich and powerful, one hand washes the other dlk 6 hrs ago #18
Is this the smoking gun? flamingdem 5 hrs ago #20
Investigations. ty. Tetrachloride 4 hrs ago #21
This message was self-deleted by its author mike_c 4 hrs ago #22
AH. So THAT'S why the felon wants Powell removed. It's STILL all about the Epstein files and his own guilt. ancianita 3 hrs ago #25
Left unsaid is the very disturbing fact that there was a 4 year interregnum between Trump terms RockRaven 3 hrs ago #26
Did DEMs have control of the Senate in any of the Biden years? Attilatheblond 1 hr ago #28
Haris as VP was tie breaker. Amaryllis 1 hr ago #29
Right. progressoid 1 hr ago #30
Just watched 3 videos of ICE men trying to intimidate citizens with "You are interfering with our investigation' crap Attilatheblond 1 hr ago #27
Sen. Wyden would have dropped this investigation already, if he hadn't found stuff after 3 years FakeNoose 51 min ago #31

travelingthrulife

(4,541 posts)
1. This is the backbone of the autocratic nightmare
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 09:48 PM
19 hrs ago

Trump/Epstein/Putin/Oligarch Sex Trafficking, Blackmail and Money Laundering Emporium.

JT45242

(3,864 posts)
4. You left out bone saw. The Emirates. And Deutsch bank
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 10:29 PM
19 hrs ago

Those three will be a common thread.

chouchou

(2,841 posts)
2. Sen. Wyden? You be careful. Yes, I'm sure you've thought about what we're thinking.
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 10:13 PM
19 hrs ago

Epstein hung himself. Yeah Right..

Amaryllis

(11,015 posts)
3. He's got a whole team on this and is smart enough to have all the info spread around so it can't be killed.
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 10:17 PM
19 hrs ago

BidenRocks

(2,834 posts)
9. I'm old and jaded
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 12:02 AM
17 hrs ago

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)
10. I just saw this on Meidas and checked out DU and it is already posted...
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 12:19 AM
17 hrs ago

I love DU!

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Amaryllis

(11,015 posts)
11. There is a LOT on the Senate Finance Committee website that was just posted yesterday. You can really see why
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 12:31 AM
17 hrs ago

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)
12. TY Kick for Sen. Wyden, Amaryllis..
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 12:40 AM
16 hrs ago

we Lots of Do have Great Dems working for US and Democracy.

dlk

(13,130 posts)
18. For the rich and powerful, one hand washes the other
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 10:54 AM
6 hrs ago

Shredding and deleting millions of documents takes time.

Response to Amaryllis (Original post)

ancianita

(43,005 posts)
25. AH. So THAT'S why the felon wants Powell removed. It's STILL all about the Epstein files and his own guilt.
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 02:09 PM
3 hrs ago

RockRaven

(18,776 posts)
26. Left unsaid is the very disturbing fact that there was a 4 year interregnum between Trump terms
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 02:23 PM
3 hrs ago

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)
28. Did DEMs have control of the Senate in any of the Biden years?
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 03:45 PM
1 hr ago

We keep reminding the population that Trump is not a king. I tend to remember that Biden was under similar constraints.

progressoid

(52,633 posts)
30. Right.
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 04:26 PM
1 hr ago

And why the treasury department? That implies there were some financial laws broken.

The whole thing stinks.

Attilatheblond

(8,368 posts)
27. Just watched 3 videos of ICE men trying to intimidate citizens with "You are interfering with our investigation' crap
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 03:43 PM
1 hr ago

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)
31. Sen. Wyden would have dropped this investigation already, if he hadn't found stuff after 3 years
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 04:39 PM
51 min ago

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.

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