Ketamine, Prostitution and Money: Details of a Secret DEA Probe of Jeffrey Epstein

[Nevilledog]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-03-06/epstein-investigated-in-dea-probe-for-ketamine-money-laundering

No paywall link
https://archive.is/20260306180027/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-03-06/epstein-investigated-in-dea-probe-for-ketamine-money-laundering

The Federal Drug Enforcement Administration opened an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and a dozen other individuals in 2015 that centered on allegations of money laundering, drug trafficking and the procurement of Eastern European prostitutes for high-profile clients, according to five people familiar with the case.

The investigation, which grew out of a longstanding probe into organized crime, was conducted by a secretive intelligence and law enforcement unit of the DEA and a transnational crime-fighting task force. It began after an informant told authorities that Epstein was involved in the illicit funding and distribution of so-called club drugs, including ecstasy, ketamine and methamphetamines, according to the people, who asked not to be named to discuss sensitive law enforcement matters.

The individuals named in a document related to the investigation, according to the people, included Epstein’s accountants, attorneys and European women who worked as his assistants or fashion models. The DEA investigation also named two businesses.

None of the individuals were charged with any offenses as a result of the investigation. It’s unclear how long the investigation remained open and what authorities ultimately learned from it because the complete case files have not been released. Yet descriptions of the DEA probe add to questions about what federal authorities knew about Epstein before they arrested him in 2019. By that time, he’d victimized more than 1,000 people, the US Department of Justice has said.

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[ultralite001]

1. Epstein was named in drugs and prostitution probe by DOJ unit that Trump shut down...

Article by Travis Gettys for RawStory...

https://www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epstein-investigation/

Sen Ron Wyden was not amused...
https://www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-members-news/wyden-questions-dea-over-mystery-epstein-investigation

https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_from_senator_wyden_to_dea_2-25-26.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00173953.pdf

The Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces’ (OCDETF) Fusion Center was a specialized Department of Justice unit tasked w/ identifying + dismantling transnational organized crime + drug trafficking networks. The unit was shut down by the Trump administration in 2025.

https://newrepublic.com/post/206960/jeffrey-epstein-files-drug-enforcement-administration-dea-investigation


No wonder Krasnov wanted this agency gutted...

OCDETF is a mechanism for the agile priority targeting of existing and emergent threats, and is fully engaged in identifying, investigating, and prosecuting criminal networks that commit a broad array of criminal offenses, including narcotics trafficking, illicit finance, human smuggling and trafficking, organized retail crime, sophisticated financial fraud, cyber-enabled crime, firearms trafficking, export violations, government benefits theft, business e-mail compromise, other federal criminal offenses, and U.S. sanctions evasion.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/ocdetf/about-ocdetf

[ultralite001]

2. The eye of the storm...

fueled by the dreams of conspiracy theorists everywhere...

https://www.sott.net/article/504840-As-Epstein-brokered-Rothschild-Bank-deals-DEA-ran-secret-probe-Into-50M-laundering-scheme

[yellow dahlia]

3. Seems like so many incidents where Justice was looking in the right direction, but.

Where did the follow through go?

[ultralite001]

4. Let's hope...

the ponderous bureaucracy, working tirelessly + faithfully to their sworn oaths of office...

archived all of the evidence in too many places to expunge the records completely...

[yellow dahlia]

5. Indeed.