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It was always going to come down to following Epstein's money [1]

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Date: 2025-07-24

A week ago Sen. Ron Wyden reported that banks had sat on a decade of SARs (Suspicious Activity Report) and only brought them up after Epstein had died. Wyden viewed records last year in camera (privately).

"When banks are only filing these reports after crooks are dead or behind bars, that does not do anyone any good," Wyden commented.

The use of banks handling huge transfers of money to support Epstein's sex trafficking operation isn't new news. In 2023 a group of Epstein's victims got a settlement from JP Morgan for $290 million and $75 million from Deutsche Bank.

JP Morgan had the bulk of transfers of $1.1 billion and hundreds of millions in other banks.

"Further evidence shows he used Russian banks for hundreds of millions in payments. Again, this is info in the possession of the Trump administration, but they're refusing to investigate," Wyden stated in a online post.

The Treasury Dept. has the 4,725 SARs reported by the banks. Deutsche Bank had $400 million in transactions, $378 million at Bank of New York Mellon and an undisclosed amount at Bank of America.

When contacted by the Hill, a Treasury Dept. spokesperson said, "Despite Senator Wyden's fantasies, there are no hidden files at the Treasury. The Biden Administration had access to this information during its tenure. The fact that Senator Wyden never asked Joe Biden or Merrick Garland to address this matter shows this is pathetic political theater and a complete joke."

Wyden didn't say they were hidden files. They're right out in the open. Then the spokesman says that they had access to them. Which is it? Hidden or not? Existent or not? And he did examine some of them last year. The snide remark by the spokesperson is typical of Trump appointees.

Some of Epstein's payments were to women in Belarus, Russia and Turkmenistan. This is where Epstein got a number of young girls for his stable of sex trafficking.

Wyden wrote in a letter to AG Pam Bondi, "I am convinced the DOJ ignored evidence found in the U.S. Treasury Department's Epstein file, a binder that contains extensive details on the mountains of cash Epstein received from prominent businessmen that Epstein used to finance his criminal network."

Now, wouldn't that be a way to generate a client list? At the very least, those businessmen would have a lot of questions to answer about why their money was going to Epstein.

Wyden also suggested subpoenaing the banks for additional records on Epstein that they may not have reported.

Wyden tried to get the Senate Finance Committee to subpoena the Treasury records to be released after they were viewed in private last year, but was blocked by GOP senators.

Funny how when it was elite Democrats that were going to be exposed by the Epstein files, MAGA and MAGA influencers were all gung-ho on the idea. Now that it looks like it's Trump and his friends that are in the limelight, it's a different story. The zeal has disappeared. Steve Bannon on his podcast said that the Wall Street Journal is no friend of MAGA and Trump. Steve was not looking happy.

Trump telling Pam Bondi to get grand jury records released was an obvious ruse. They are almost never made public to protect the principle and the privacy.

Today, Deputy AG Todd Blanche met with Jeffrey Epstein's partner in crime, Ghislaine Maxwell. To say that this is highly unusual is a understatement. Normally an FBI agent would be sent to take a deposition.

Her lawyer, David Oskar Markus said, "Ms. Maxwell answered every single question. She never stopped, she never invoked privilege, she never declined to answer. She answered all the questions truthfully, honestly, and to the best of her ability." That doesn't tell us anything, of course.

On Wednesday, the House Committee on Oversight issued a subpoena for Maxwell to testify when the House reconvenes.

Medias Touch has a short clip from a deposition Epstein gave in 2010 on X, where he says the following:

That seems rather telling, although it was obviously a question he couldn't answer. Epstein said he had been Donald Trump's best friend for 10 years, and that was from a recording Michael Wolff made in 2017. Yet Donald Trump says he hadn't talked to him in 15 years, and that they had had a falling out.

If that wasn't enough, Bradley Edwards, who has represented over 200 Epstein victims, says the Epstein Estate has the leather bound birthday book. Not only that, but they would be willing to turn it over.

And then I thought about when DOGE got access to the Treasury Department's systems and they would have had all those suspicious activity reports on Epstein's bank transactions available. What would Musk have done with that?

Speaker Johnson put a halt to House proceedings that were getting too close for comfort. It won't work. There will be five weeks of reporting and reveals before the House reconvenes. Republican Representatives will be facing tough questions from their constituents about Epstein, the files, the evidence, the cover-ups. GOP senators, too.

Following the money is just one of the ways to go to unravel the truth about Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump.

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