A “big” file with transaction data on sex predator Jeffrey Epstein “full of actionable information” is sitting idle in the Treasury Department, a high-ranking Democratic senator dramatically claimed Thursday.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, delivered an impassioned call to the feds to take a closer look at Epstein’s financial data, particularly who was behind the roughly 4,725 wire transfers totaling about $1.1 billion to and from one of his bank accounts.
“Somewhere in the Treasury Department, Mr. President, locked away in a cabinet drawer, is a big Epstein file that’s full of actionable information,” Wyden declared on the Senate floor.
“Follow the money [and] details about his financing and operations that await investigation,” he pleaded.
The Oregon Democrat, whose team has been probing Epstein for at least three years, recalled how the Biden administration let his staffers peek at the sex predator’s file in the Treasury Department last year.
“The file shows that Mr. Epstein used multiple Russian banks, which are now under sanctions, to process payments related to sex trafficking,” Wyden explained. “A lot of the women and girls he targeted came from Russia, Belarus, Turkey and elsewhere.
“One shudders to think about the kinds of people who must have been involved in trafficking these women and young girls out of those companies and into the Epstein web of abuse,” he added. “These are all potential leads.”
Critics have long questioned why others besides Epstein and his convicted accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, haven’t been prosecuted over the deceased financier’s alleged sex trafficking ring.
Beyond the one bank account with 4,725 wire transfers totaling about $1.1 billion, Wyden stressed that “hundreds of millions more flowed through other accounts,” which constitutes “even more to investigate.”
Some of the confidential financial data that Wyden’s team examined showed that there were four major accounts with at least $1.5 billion of transactions connected to Epstein, according to the New York Times.
A firestorm over Epstein erupted earlier this month after a leaked Justice Department and FBI memo concluded that the sex predator most likely committed suicide in 2019 and didn’t have a “client list.”
Many of President Trump’s base of MAGA supporters quickly began questioning that conclusion and demanded more transparency, prompting ire from the president himself, who dubbed it the “Epstein Hoax.”
A chorus of Democrats quickly pounced on the MAGA infighting and demanded the Trump administration release more files on Epstein.
On Thursday, Wyden seemingly used the controversy to draw more attention to his longstanding misgivings over how the feds have handled the Epstein case.
“I wrote to the Attorney General, Ms. [Pam] Bondi, Treasury [Secretary Scott] Bessent, FBI Director [Kash] Patel, and I asked them all to produce the Epstein file to the Senate Finance Committee so it could be reviewed,” the Oregon senator said, noting he “made that request multiple times.”
“We are going to stay on this fight to hold the wealthy individuals accountable for the harm that they clearly were involved in, in injuring the young women and others in this sex trafficking,” he later added.
Wyden underscored that he is planning to do more follow-ups to get the information on Epstein.
“[There was] real evil — real evil done to women and girls by Jeffrey Epstein,” Wyden stressed. “Nobody gets to sweep that under the rug.”
