Sen. Ron Wyden Says There’s More To Epstein Docs Than Pam Bondi Is Letting On | EUROtoday
The Justice Department’s current conclusion that “no further disclosure” of knowledge associated to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein “would be appropriate or warranted” has raised some hackles amongst supporters of President Donald Trump, whose administration pledged to make the information public.
One Senate Democrat, Ron Wyden of Oregon, has been pointing to particular avenues of inquiry that, if adopted, may shine extra mild on how Epstein was capable of get away with sexually abusing a whole bunch of younger girls and women for thus lengthy.
An aide to Wyden instructed HuffPost the senator believes it’s “absolutely ridiculous” that Attorney General Pam Bondi and others now say there may be nothing left to be made public.
The senator himself instructed NOTUS, a digital information outlet, that he not solely gave the Trump administration “a ready-made Epstein file,” however that he is aware of “for a fact that the Trump administration is sitting on an Epstein file that contains new actionable information, and they’ve done nothing with that, either.”
In an unsigned memo, the Justice Department said that it had no cause to imagine Epstein was blackmailing anybody and that he does seem to have died by suicide in 2019. The division additionally stated there was no Epstein “client list,” regardless of Bondi’s February assertion that the “client list” was sitting on her desk for evaluate at that second.
Some of the eye surrounding Epstein comes from conspiracy theorists, who recommend that highly effective people within the federal authorities are serving to to cowl up Epstein’s misdeeds as a result of they’re implicated themselves — significantly Democrats.
Epstein sat within the heart of an unlimited net of wealth and affect, and legit questions on his operations should stay. His circle of buddies and acquaintances has lengthy been identified to incorporate Trump, together with many outstanding people of varied political stripes.
Wyden, the rating member of the Senate Finance Committee, requested the Trump administration in March to look into Epstein’s reference to the billionaire financier Leon Black.
Black allegedly gave $170 million to Epstein; the funds are referenced in a settlement settlement Black signed with the U.S. Virgin Islands legal professional common that explicitly said the cash was used “to partially fund [Epstein’s] operations in the Virgin Islands,” in response to Wyden’s workplace.
(Black has strenuously denied data of Epstein’s misconduct, saying in 2023 that he gave Epstein cash for “legitimate financial advisory services.”)
Wyden alleges that he has additionally laid eyes on different paperwork — now in possession of the Trump Treasury Department — that “contain extensive information on the extent to which high-profile individuals paid Epstein staggering sums of money, which was then used to move women around the world or engage in dubious transactions indicative of money laundering.”
As the senator wrote in a June letter to Bondi and others: “These documents also shed light on how major U.S. financial institutions turned a blind eye to the financing of Epstein’s criminal network, simply waiving the payments through without properly reporting them to U.S. authorities in a timely fashion, as required by law. All of the individuals, financial institutions, attorneys and agents who participated in financing Epstein’s illegal activities must be held accountable.”
HuffPost reached out to the Justice and Treasury departments for touch upon Wyden’s claims.
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