Epstein Survivors Announce Support for Wyden Bill That Would Force Treasury to Turn Over Epstein Bank Records
Treasury Department’s Epstein File Is Unaffected by the Legislation Congress Passed Last Month; Secretary Bessent Has Repeatedly Refused to Produce Epstein Bank Records for Investigation
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today announced that a group of Epstein survivors have endorsed his Produce Epstein Treasury Records Act, which would compel Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to turn over Epstein-related records held by the Treasury Department to Senate investigators. These records, which detail Epstein’s financial network and transactions, are not among those the Department of Justice is required to release as a result of legislation passed last month. Secretary Bessent has repeatedly refused to produce the records for further investigation.
Attorneys representing the Epstein survivors expressed their clients’ support for Senator Wyden’s legislation in a letter sent to him, Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
“Congress passed legislation dealing with the Epstein files at the Justice Department, and now we need to do the same with the Epstein files at the Treasury. These Epstein records at the Treasury Department, which Secretary Bessent has been hiding all year, would provide a detailed map of Epstein’s financial network and help us learn more about who funded, enabled and participated in his trafficking operation,” Senator Wyden said. “I’ve been investigating Epstein’s finances for more than three years, and I am routinely awestruck by the bravery of these women and their commitment to uncovering the full truth of Epstein’s crimes. It’s an honor to have their support, and I take it as a sign that we’re on the right track with this follow-the-money investigation. I want to get this legislation voted on and passed as soon as possible.”
The attorneys representing the Epstein survivors wrote, “For far too long Epstein and his co-conspirators have been able to hide in the shadows and conceal the vast amount of wealth that fueled his decades long sex trafficking operation. Consistently, the Epstein survivors have voiced the importance of transparency and championed the message that all records contained within the government’s files must be produced and that includes these Treasury Department records. We urge the U.S. Senate to promptly pass S. 2746.”
The Produce Epstein Treasury Records Act (PETRA) mandates the following:
- Within 30 days of enactment of PETRA, the Secretary of the Treasury must produce to Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Finance, and the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Banking Committee, physical copies of all suspicious activity reports related to Jeffrey Epstein (hereafter, the Epstein SARs). The Epstein SARs must include all SARs related to Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators (whether indicted or unindicted) and any and all individuals and entities who transacted with Jeffrey Epstein or entities he owned or controlled, whether directly or through Epstein’s representatives.
- Within 30 days of enactment, the Secretary of the Treasury must also produce a report with a list of all financial institutions that filed the Epstein SARs, a list of all individuals and entities flagged by the SARs, and the total dollar value of the Epstein SARs (organized by financial institution).
- Within 60 days of enactment, the Secretary of the Treasury must also produce a report detailing all investigations conducted by any components of the Treasury Department, including the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), into any violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (“BSA”) or any other federal law by financial institutions regarding the handling of any accounts identified in the Epstein SARs.
The legislative text of the bill, available here, seeks “all suspicious activity reports relating to Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators (whether indicted or unindicted) and any third party individual or entity that transacted with Jeffrey Epstein” including but not limited to the following:
- Jeffrey Epstein
- Ghislaine Maxwell
- Darren K. Indyke
- Richard D. Kahn
- Harry Beller
- Erika Kellerhals
- Southern Trust Company, Inc.
- Southern Financial LLC
- Haze Trust
- Environmental Solutions Worldwide, Inc.
- The 1953 Trust
- Plan D, LLC
- Great St. Jim, LLC
- Nautilus, Inc.
- Hyperion Air, LLC
- Poplar, Inc.
- J Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation Inc.
- Gratitude America Ltd.
- Butterfly Trust
- La Hougue
- Scott Borgerson
- Malcolm Grumbridge
- J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. (and any subsidiary thereof)
- Deutsche Bank (and any subsidiary thereof)
- Bank of America (and any subsidiary thereof)
- Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (and any subsidiary thereof)
- UBS Financial Services
- Wells Fargo
- Alfa Bank
- Sberbank
- Jes Staley
- Leon D. Black
- Debra R. Black
- Black Family Partners, LP
- Elysium Trust
- Elysium Management, LLC
- J Black Trust
- Melanie Spinella
- BV70, LLC
- Les Wexner
- Bella Wexner
- Abigail Wexner
- The Wexner Foundation
- Arts Interests
- Health and Science Interests
- The Wexner Children’s Trust II
- International Charitable Interests
- L Brands (formerly Limited Brands)
- Alan Dershowitz
- Glenn Dubin
- Christie’s
- Sotheby’s
- HB Multi-Strategy Holdings, Ltd.
- Highbridge Capital Corporation
- AP Narrows Holding AP
- LDB 2011 LLC
- Elizabeth Johnson
- Johnson & Johnson
- Barclays
- Peter Thiel
- Valar Ventures
- Karyna Shuliak
- Appleby law firm
- Standard Chartered
- HSBC
- Julius Baer
- BNP Paribas
- Citibank
- Sarah Kellen
- Nadia Marcinko (also known as Nada Marcinkova)
- MC2, modeling agency
- Jean-Luc Brunel
Senator Wyden’s Epstein investigation began in 2022 with an inquiry into the sex trafficker’s financial relationship with multi-billionaire Leon Black, the co-founder of Apollo Global Management. In 2024, following a request from Finance Committee Democratic staff for access to Treasury’s Epstein files, the Biden administration allowed committee investigators to review more than a thousand pages of documents in person at the Treasury Department. Later that year Senator Wyden requested the Treasury produce the Epstein file for the committee to investigate further. He made the same request early in the Trump administration, which came into office promising a greater level of transparency on Epstein matters. He also obtained Leon Black’s settlement with the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands and released new information pertaining to Black’s payment of $170 million to Epstein over several years, ostensibly for tax and estate planning services. In June Senator Wyden again sought the Epstein files and laid out a blueprint for a proper follow-the-money investigation given the Trump administration’s refusal to act, and the following month he revealed that Epstein’s huge transactions and tax planning work may never have been investigated or audited by the IRS. In a letter to the Treasury Secretary sent in September, Senator Wyden identified several individuals with documented Epstein ties and again demanded the Epstein files. In November Senator Wyden released a detailed analysis of the ways in which JPMorgan Chase protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking operation through an egregious series of compliance failures spanning nearly two decades.
A web version of this release is here.
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