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Amaryllis

(11,011 posts)
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 09:43 PM 14 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 14 hrs ago OP
This is the backbone of the autocratic nightmare travelingthrulife 14 hrs ago #1
You left out bone saw. The Emirates. And Deutsch bank JT45242 13 hrs ago #4
Sen. Wyden? You be careful. Yes, I'm sure you've thought about what we're thinking. chouchou 13 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 13 hrs ago #3
Ah..Thanks! Good to know. chouchou 2 hrs ago #16
Kicked and recommended Uncle Joe 13 hrs ago #5
Oh, he's good Lulu KC 12 hrs ago #6
He is VERY good and also the ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee. :) Amaryllis 12 hrs ago #7
He was on MSNOW talkng about this a night or two ago. electric_blue68 12 hrs ago #8
Do you remember which show it was? I tried to find it but didn't. Amaryllis 10 hrs ago #14
I'm old and jaded BidenRocks 11 hrs ago #9
I just saw this on Meidas and checked out DU and it is already posted... BigmanPigman 11 hrs ago #10
There is a LOT on the Senate Finance Committee website that was just posted yesterday. You can really see why Amaryllis 11 hrs ago #11
TY Kick for Sen. Wyden, Amaryllis.. Cha 11 hrs ago #12
Thank you! Trump is clearly going mad over this. Joinfortmill 10 hrs ago #13
Thank you, Senator Wyden milestogo 10 hrs ago #15
K&R spanone 2 hrs ago #17
For the rich and powerful, one hand washes the other dlk 58 min ago #18

travelingthrulife

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

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

JT45242

(3,863 posts)
4. You left out bone saw. The Emirates. And Deutsch bank
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 10:29 PM
13 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
13 hrs ago

Epstein hung himself. Yeah Right..

Amaryllis

(11,011 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
13 hrs ago

BidenRocks

(2,830 posts)
9. I'm old and jaded
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 12:02 AM
11 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
11 hrs ago

I love DU!

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Amaryllis

(11,011 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
11 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

(317,138 posts)
12. TY Kick for Sen. Wyden, Amaryllis..
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 12:40 AM
11 hrs ago

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

dlk

(13,128 posts)
18. For the rich and powerful, one hand washes the other
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 10:54 AM
58 min ago

Shredding and deleting millions of documents takes time.

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