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Why is the GOP blocking Epstein bank records?
https://jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/why-is-gop-blocking-epstein-bank
LEON BLACK
Billionaire Leon Black is at the center of a years-long probe into Epstein’s finances
Julie k Brown
Senator Ron Wyden has been working for years to unravel Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes by following his money. This should be a no-brainer — it’s been clear for a long time that Epstein had been involved in a global sex trafficking and money laundering empire. His banks were fined by the Government and the financial institutions paid over $365 million dollars in civil legal settlements to victims for failing to flag suspicious bank transactions involving his businesses over the years.
Those financial transactions could provide a road map of Epstein’s crimes — the scope of his illicit activities and who else was involved.
Wyden has been doing what others have failed to do — and that includes officials in both the Biden and the Trump administrations.
Epstein’s transactions, according to Wyden — who saw some of them under the Biden administration — were connected to payments made to women and others who presumably worked for him as part of his various criminal networks.
Those criminal networks, it turns out, also may have involved drug trafficking. A 69-page report by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency contained in the Epstein Files shows that as early as 2015, the feds suspected that Epstein was trafficking club drugs, such as Meth, Ecstasy and Ketamine. As Bloomberg’s Jason Leopold reported, a secret intelligence and law enforcement task force of the DEA opened a probe into the financier in 2015, and it lasted FIVE years.
The document is labeled “SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED,” yet it is heavily redacted. In fact, entire PAGES of the document are completely blacked out.
Like everything else Epstein, that investigation died. No one was charged, and it’s not clear why. The public, and especially Epstein’s victims, deserve to know what happened — and whether there was any undue influence that led the case to be scuttled — and another opportunity to put Epstein behind bars wasted.
Wyden would like to see an unredacted copy of that report. But just like the Epstein’ files, the DOJ is making it as difficult as possible. (more on this below).
Wyden has also accused Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent of withholding other key information — and that information it seems, concerns a lot of wealthy and powerful men.
Among other things, he wants the Treasury Department to release suspicious activity reports, known as “SARs” that banks and other financial institutions have flagged over the years for Epstein. Wyden was given some access to Epstein’s finances under the Biden administration, and discovered evidence of more than $1 billion in payments to women, as well money transfers from wealthy people — including Leon Black, the former CEO of Apollo Global Management.
JES STALEY
Jes Staley Called Epsteiп ‘Family,’ Sigпed His Estate Papers, Admitted Iп Coυrt He Slept With Epsteiп’s Staff. He Was Never Charged.
He Ran One Of The World’s Biggest Banks. He Had 1,200 Emails With Epstein. In 2025, He Stood In A London Courtroom And Admitted It. His Bank Had Already Paid Him $30 Million To Leave.
March 12, 2025. A London courtroom.
The barrister asks one final question.
Jes Staley — former CEO of Barclays, former head of JPMorgan’s private bank — pauses.
Then answers quietly.
Yes. He had a sexual relationship with a woman who worked for Jeffrey Epstein.
The court reporter keeps typing.
For four years, Staley exchanged 1,200 emails with Epstein. Some had photos attached. He visited Epstein’s private island six times. Once while Epstein was sitting in a Florida jail.
From the hot tub on that island, he emailed his imprisoned friend:
“I owe you much. I deeply appreciate our friendship. I have few so profound.”
A few weeks later, a second email. Same island. He opened it carefully:
“I realize the danger in sending this.”
He sent it anyway.
In November 2021, Barclays announced his departure. He walked away with approximately $30 million.
Then came February 2026.
The DOJ released 3.5 million pages of Epstein documents. Buried inside: a notarized trust document. Dated November 26, 2014. Signed by Jeffrey Epstein.
Signed by Jes Staley.
Trustee of Epstein’s estate. $250,000 a year.
One problem.
Ten months earlier — in that same London courtroom, under oath — Staley testified he had turned the role down. He said the fact that he refused proved they weren’t that close.
His signature was on the document the whole time.
But here’s what the signature doesn’t explain.
In December 2019, federal agents sat across from a woman and took notes for 86 pages. What she described about Jes Staley — what she said happened in a room at Epstein’s New York residence — was flagged by SDNY prosecutors in an internal email.
They gave it a page number: 31.
That email stayed inside the investigation for six years.
The woman in it has never been identified publicly.
Neither has the person she says was in the room with her.
Exclusive: Bags of shredded documents at NY jail after Epstein’s death, officer tells FBI
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article315131144.html
Price list for drugs found in the Epstein files. “Hours 6 PM to midnight Apartment/Hotel Only” “Coke 1gm…Stimulant 30-min snort”
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00556214.pdf
Ketamine, Prostitution and Money: Here Are The Details of a Secret DEA Probe of Jeffrey Epstein
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-03-06/epstein-investigated-in-dea-probe-for-ketamine-money-laundering
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