Oregon Senator Pushes Bill Demanding Treasury Hand Over Epstein Financial Records
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden has introduced a bill to force the U.S. Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, to turn over the files on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Wyden introduced the Produce Epstein Treasury Records Act on September 10, calling on Bessent to turn over all Epstein-related treasury records to Senate investigators, according to the Oregon Capital Chronicle.
His action follows the failure of two previous attempts to gain access to the files for examination by members of the Senate Finance Committee. Wyden has been unable to obtain the majority vote needed by the committee to issue a subpoena for the files.
Wyden Wants to Unravel the Epstein Sex Trafficking Network
The Produce Epstein Treasury Records Act is Wyden’s latest attempt in a three-year investigation to unravel the Epstein sex trafficking network through his financial transactions with some of the world’s most powerful men and largest banks.
According to Alex Baumhardt of the Oregon Capital Chronicle, a nonprofit news agency focusing on Oregon state politics, government, and policy, Wyden’s latest endeavor relates to Valentine’s Day in 2024, when his staff and members of the Senate Finance Committee were given limited access to Epstein’s financial transactions.
Baumhardt says the transactions were valued at more than $1 billion and included payments to females from Eastern European countries.
Wyden suspects that there is far more information about the Epstein transactions than what they were allowed to access, prompting his decision to introduce the bill.
The confidential Epstein records are held by the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).
Although banks are supposed to report the activity in real time, the largest bank working with Epstein was JPMorgan, which did not provide the treasury with the reports until late 2019. By that time, Epstein had committed suicide in his New York jail cell after his arrest for sex trafficking.