To be clear, this is completely speculation - there is no proof of a direct connection between Timothy Mellon & Epstein. But there is a direct connection between Mellon Bank, from which he inherited his fortune, years ago merged with the Bank of New York to form BNY Mellon and Epstein. And Timothy Mellon and his family are just generally horrible, despicable people.
https://www.wtae.com/article/bny-lawsuit-epstein/69077086
One of Pittsburgh's corporate titans is facing a lawsuit over its ties to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
The class action lawsuit was filed Wednesday by one of Epstein's victims, who is identified only as Jane Doe.
The lawsuit says BNY played a key role in financing Epstein's sexual trafficking enterprise before he died by an apparent suicide in 2019 in a New York jail.
"BNY for years processed $378 million in payments to women trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein," the complaint says. "BNY had a plethora of information regarding Epstein's sex trafficking operation but chose profit over protecting the victims."
Some background on him (and the Mellon family as a whole):
https://www.climatecriminals.org/timothy-mellon
Mellon made his first major political donation only four years ago, but since then, he has poured tens of millions of dollars from his oil-fueled inheritance into helping Republicans maintain control of the US House and Senate. He was the single largest donor of Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.
The Mellon Family’s bank, The Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon), has 35 million dollars invested in various oil and gas companies.
The Mellon family funds the Sarah Scaife Foundation, which has donated $21.5 million to the Heritage Foundation. The Heritage Foundation is financed by the Koch Brothers and has strong ties with many climate denial groups and is the leading group behind Project 2025. Timothy Mellon has also donated millions to the Sentinel Action Fund- a super PAC with close affiliations to the Heritage Foundation. Mellon has donated $11 million to the Sentinel Action Fund from 2022-2024 and was the Fund’s top donor for the 2024 election cycle.
PanAm Railways, which Mellon owned for over 40 years, has committed numerous violations of federal and state environmental and safety laws. PanAm has been fined hundreds of thousands of dollars for environmental violations such as improper storage and disposal of hazardous waste. In a case brought forward by the Massachusetts Attorney General, the company was found guilty of concealing a 2006 hazardous oil spill of over 900 gallons of diesel fuel in its railyard.
Mellon has been praised by RFK Jr., who proclaimed that “Tim Mellon is a maverick entrepreneur who embodies the most admirable qualities of what FDR called ‘American industrial genius.’”
“Timothy Mellon — and the tens of millions he is shelling out to Trump, RFK Jr and Republican candidates for the Senate and House — is the product of a tax system pioneered by his grandfather that allows the perpetuation of dynastic wealth and the maintenance of its political power.” -Robert Reich, labor secretary under Bill Clinton
“Black people, in spite of heroic efforts by the ‘Establishment’ to right the wrongs of the past, became even more belligerent and unwilling to pitch in to improve their own situations… For delivering their votes in the Federal Elections, they are awarded with yet more and more freebies: food stamps, cell phones, WIC payments, Obamacare, and on, and on, and on.” -Mellon in his 2015 autobiography.
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