As Bessent Withholds Epstein Files, Wyden Expands Investigation and Demands Financial Records

As Bessent Withholds Epstein Files, Wyden Expands Investigation and Demands Financial Records

In New Letter to Treasury Secretary, Wyden Seeks Records Related to Several Dozen Individuals and Entities With Epstein Ties

Washington, D.C. - Expanding his three-year investigation into the financing of Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., wrote to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday renewing his demand for the department to produce its extensive Epstein files to the Finance Committee. He also named several dozen individuals and entities with documented Epstein ties, seeking all files related to transactions with Epstein and any co-conspirators. Bessent twice this year has refused to provide these records to the Finance Committee, making him a willing participant in the Trump administration's Epstein cover-up.

"Given the scale of Epstein's sex trafficking operation, which victimized thousands of women and girls and reached around the globe, it is preposterous and unacceptable that only Epstein himself and Ghislaine Maxwell have faced prosecution. There is no doubt that the Trump administration's ongoing coverup of the Epstein files is giving comfort to the pedophiles and accomplices who were a part of his sex trafficking ring," Senator Wyden wrote. "The Treasury records shine a light on how high-profile individuals paid Epstein staggering sums of money, which was then used to move women around the world or engage in dubious transactions indicative of money laundering. They also show how U.S. financial institutions turned a blind eye to the financing of Epstein's criminal network, simply waiving the payments through without properly reporting them to U.S. authorities in a timely fashion, as required by law. Financial institutions, attorneys and agents actively participated in Epstein's illegal operations or were grossly negligent. They must all be held accountable."

Senator Wyden's letter, available in full here, sought "all Treasury Department documents, including suspicious activity reports, concerning transactions with Jeffrey Epstein and any of his co-conspirators (whether indicted or unindicted), including, but not limited to transactions between Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and any of the following individuals and entities:"

1. Jeffrey Epstein

2. Ghislaine Maxwell

3. Darren K. Indyke

4. Richard D. Kahn

5. Harry Beller

6. Erika Kellerhals

7. Southern Trust Company, Inc.

8. Southern Financial LLC

9. Haze Trust

10. Environmental Solutions Worldwide, Inc.

11. The 1953 Trust

12. Plan D, LLC

13. Great St. Jim, LLC

14. Nautilus, Inc.

15. Hyperion Air, LLC

16. Poplar, Inc.

17. J Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation Inc.

18. Gratitude America Ltd. (501c3 entity)

19. Butterfly Trust

20. La Hougue (trust in island of Jersey)

21. Scott Borgerson

22. Malcolm Grumbridge

23. J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. (and subsidiaries)

24. Deutsche Bank (and subsidiaries)

25. Bank of America (and subsidiaries)

26. Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (and subsidiaries)

27. UBS Financial Services

28. Wells Fargo

29. Alfa Bank

30. Sberbank

31. Jes Staley

32. Leon D. Black

33. Debra R. Black

34. Black Family Partners, LP

35. Elysium Trust

36. Elysium Management, LLC

37. J Black Trust

38. Melanie Spinella

39. BV70, LLC

40. Les Wexner

41. Bella Wexner

42. Abigail Wexner

43. The Wexner Foundation

44. Arts Interests

45. Health and Science Interests

46. The Wexner Children's Trust II

47. International Charitable Interests

48. L Brands (formerly Limited Brands)

49. Alan Dershowitz

50. Glenn Dubin

51. Christie's

52. Sotheby's

53. HB Multi-Strategy Holdings, Ltd

54. Highbridge Capital Corporation

55. AP Narrows Holding AP

56. LDB 2011 LLC

57. Elizabeth Johnson

58. Johnson & Johnson

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