Wyden Statement on the Epstein Bill’s Passage and Treasury’s Epstein File
Washington, D.C. — Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement on the passage of the Epstein bill and the bank records that remain hidden at the Treasury Department:
“If Trump and Bondi are cooking up some harebrained scheme to slow-walk the release of the Epstein files or turn them into a political hit job, the American people will see right through it. It’s time for the Trump administration to quit running interference for pedophiles.
“My follow-the-money investigation into Epstein’s network that began in 2022 will continue regardless of how the Department of Justice proceeds. There is another massive Epstein file in the possession of the Treasury Department containing thousands and thousands of his bank records, and that file must be released too. The information in those bank records, a portion of which my investigators reviewed at the Treasury in 2024, is key to uncovering who financed Epstein’s network, who enabled his trafficking, and who else participated. Secretary Bessent has repeatedly refused to produce those records for further investigation. If he won’t change his tune, Congress must change it for him.”
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