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article spoilered https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/business/epstein-banks-wyden-trump.html?partner=bloomberg

 

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President Trump and his administration want to move on from Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and sexual offender, who once associated with some of the world’s richest and most powerful people. Some of Mr. Trump’s most loyal supporters insist there is more to uncover.

But it’s not just the MAGA faithful who are refusing to let it go.

Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, the top Democrat on the powerful Senate Finance Committee, has been digging into Mr. Epstein’s financial network for the past three years. Some members of his staff have viewed confidential files that shed light on the immense sums of money that, they say, Mr. Epstein moved through the banking system to fuel his vast sex-trafficking network.

In particular, filings by four big banks flagged more than $1.5 billion in transactions — including thousands of wire transfers for the purchase and sale of artwork for rich friends, fees paid to Mr. Epstein by wealthy individuals, and payments to numerous women, the senator’s office found. The filings came after Mr. Epstein was arrested in 2019 on federal sex trafficking charges.

Large money transfers to individuals, foreign countries or obscure companies are the kind of things banks are supposed to be examining as potentially suspicious. Some of the Epstein money transfers disclosed in a report from JPMorgan Chase involved accounts at two Russian banks before those institutions were subject to U.S. sanctions. A few transactions red-flagged were for as much as $100 million.

 

Mr. Wyden said his investigation into Mr. Epstein’s finances had taken on new urgency now that the Trump administration was balking at releasing any of the information seized by the F.B.I. from Mr. Epstein’s homes or information collected from the nation’s banks. Like many Republicans on the far right, Mr. Wyden and a growing number of Democrats believe there are more details about Mr. Epstein that the federal government needs to reveal.

“We felt from the beginning this was a follow-the-money case,” Mr. Wyden said in an interview. “This horrific sex-trafficking operation cost Epstein a lot of money, and he had to get that money from somewhere.”

The bank records reviewed by Mr. Wyden’s staff — called suspicious activity reports or S.A.R.s — are meant to be an early warning system for law enforcement about signs of illegal activity. As dictated by federal law, the reports are so confidential that banks can’t even acknowledge filing them, and people who have seen the documents are under great constraint as to what they can say about them.

Members of Mr. Wyden’s staff provided an overview of the banks’ reports to The New York Times based on their review of the filings.

 

To some degree, Mr. Wyden is hamstrung by those rules, which is why he wants the Trump administration to make the reports available to Congress so members can review them and possibly issue subpoenas to the banks for more information.

Even before the Justice Department announced last week that it was closing the door on the Epstein investigation, Mr. Wyden had been pressing Attorney General Pam Bondi to turn over bank reports along with other information about wealthy individuals and financial institutions in Mr. Epstein’s network.

Mr. Trump, who was once friendly with Mr. Epstein, said this week that he would let Ms. Bondi decide which documents should be made public. He also dismissed his supporters who are calling for the release of Epstein-related files and said the matter was old news.

 

The Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment. Ms. Bondi has said she stands behind the department’s memo that said “no further disclosure” of information was warranted.

The banks that filed reports reviewed by Mr. Wyden’s team — JPMorgan, Bank of America and Bank of New York Mellon — all declined to comment except for Deutsche Bank, which said it “regrets our historical connection with Jeffrey Epstein.”

The confidential bank reports filed with a Treasury Department agency could be crucial, because they provide the most comprehensive look at the enormous financing machine behind Mr. Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation in Manhattan, Florida and the U.S. Virgin Islands. To date, only bits and pieces of the financial transactions involving Mr. Epstein’s network have come out through civil litigation and news reports.

“In this era of misinformation, these reports are the coin of the realm,” Mr. Wyden said of the confidential bank reports.

 

The reports reviewed by Mr. Wyden’s team were filed by the banks months after Mr. Epstein’s arrest in 2019 on federal sex-trafficking charges and his subsequent death by suicide in a federal jail in Manhattan.

Normally, a bank is expected to file a suspicious activity report within 60 days of a bank’s spotting a questionable transaction, such as movements signaling money laundering or sex trafficking.

Gary Kalman, executive director for the U.S. arm of Transparency International, which focuses on illicit financing, said banks have to make a lot of assessments about a client before deciding to file S.A.R.s, including reading news reports.

 

In 2008, Mr. Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida to a charge of soliciting prostitution from a teenage girl and received a modest jail sentence.

In conjunction with the guilty plea, federal prosecutors in Florida entered into a deal with Mr. Epstein that required him to register as a sex offender but not to prosecute him separately. The deal was criticized by victims, because authorities had reports that Mr. Epstein had sexually abused dozens of teenagers.

Many of the wealthy men, celebrities and politicians who associated with Mr. Epstein over the years have said in interviews or statements that they were unaware of the extent of his wrongdoing until he was arrested a second time in 2019.

It is unclear if more frequent and timely S.A.R.s filings would have made much of a difference with law enforcement given the years of criticism over how authorities handled Mr. Epstein’s investigation.

 

Still, Mr. Wyden said the reporting system needed fixing, especially as it pertains to monitoring wealthy banking clients.

“When banks are only are filing these reports after crooks like Epstein are dead or behind bars, that does not do anyone any good,” he said.

Mr. Wyden began his investigation roughly three years ago, with a particular focus on the more than $158 million in payments the billionaire investor Leon Black made to Mr. Epstein for tax and estate planning services. Mr. Black, who socialized with Mr. Epstein, was a co-founder of the private equity firm Apollo Global Management.

In early 2021, Mr. Black stepped down from all leadership posts at the firm after those payments and his close ties to Mr. Epstein became public. Mr. Black’s legal team has said that Mr. Epstein’s work saved Mr. Black some $2 billion in taxes and that he did nothing wrong in paying Mr. Epstein.

 

Early last year, his investigators, along with several Republican committee staffers, were permitted by Treasury officials to review the secret filings by the four banks.

The staff members were presented with thousands of pages of documents to review. But they were not allowed to make copies and could take only handwritten notes.

The single largest suspicious activity report reviewed by the congressional team was filed in late 2019 by JPMorgan for $1.1 billion. The report covered 4,700 transactions dating to 2003, including payments to women from Belarus, Russia and Turkmenistan. Many of Mr. Epstein’s victims included young women from Eastern European countries.

 

The next largest was by Deutsche Bank for about $400 million, followed by Bank of New York Mellon for $378 million and then Bank of America, which filed reports on Mr. Black’s payments to Mr. Epstein.

In 2023, JPMorgan paid $290 million to Mr. Epstein’s victims and Deutsche paid $75 million to settle lawsuits that claimed the banks ignored red flags about potential sex trafficking.

Marijke Chartouni, who was sexually abused by Mr. Epstein when she was 20, said the furor between Mr. Trump and his supporters had obscured the harm done to victims. Ms. Chartouni, who is now 45, also said law enforcement was to blame for not having more aggressively pursued Mr. Epstein and his network.

“Sadly, all this noise around the purported ‘Epstein Files’ serves only to detract from holding the Justice Department accountable to victims for its failure in preventing this trafficking atrocity,” she said in an interview.

 

Ron Wyden did not kill himself.

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Blondie needs to leak anything that implicates Kash and Don in the release of the memo. Take them down with her.

She definitely has to be ready with it if/when she's canned
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13 minutes ago, Chopper said:

In particular, filings by four big banks flagged more than $1.5 billion in transactions — including thousands of wire transfers for the purchase and sale of artwork for rich friends, fees paid to Mr. Epstein by wealthy individuals, and payments to numerous women, the senator’s office found. The filings came after Mr. Epstein was arrested in 2019 on federal sex trafficking charges.

Large money transfers to individuals, foreign countries or obscure companies are the kind of things banks are supposed to be examining as potentially suspicious. Some of the Epstein money transfers disclosed in a report from JPMorgan Chase involved accounts at two Russian banks before those institutions were subject to U.S. sanctions. A few transactions red-flagged were for as much as $100 million.

Ummm yikes

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Hey Glenn, either they won't give you shit due to "national security" or those exchanges will be so scrubbed they won't tell you shit.  And no one that could do something about it will care.

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1 hour ago, Gatorubet said:

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Miss Teen USA pageant says, hey!

Miss Teen USA: And I French kiss. 
 

Friend: Yeah? Everybody does that. 
 

Miss Teen USA: But Donald Trump says I’m the best! 

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2 minutes ago, Underdog said:

Miss Teen USA: And I French kiss. 
 

Friend: Yeah? Everybody does that. 
 

Miss Teen USA: But Donald Trump says he’s the best! 

fify

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Miss Teen USA pageant says, hey!

Wow. Never seen that before. I swear, Trump could leave the White House tomorrow wearing a t-shirt that says “I like to rape underage girls. The younger the better.” and his base would be like “He must be trying to cover for the Clintons for some reason, but why??”.
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Just now, Red Five said:

Wow. Never seen that before. I swear, Trump could leave the White House tomorrow wearing a t-shirt that says “I like to rape underage girls. The younger the better.” and his base would be like “He must be trying to cover for the Clintons for some reason, but why??”.

And his base would be like “give me 20 of those shirts”

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I mean pretend you knew nothing about Trump. Pretend you had been in a coma since 2015. Just watching and listening to him you would know with about 98% confidence that he is suppressing this because it’s very bad for him. Now add in that other stuff, like all his stupid tells. “Obama did it. It’s a hoax.” Bump it up to 100000%.

(base scratching their heads…. “Did the Obamas and the Bidens blackmail him into not releasing everything??”)

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2 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

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Miss Teen USA pageant says, hey!

I did a reverse image search and an independent one; and couldn’t find the second image.

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This is just another example of how absolutely stupid his cult is. I don't think cognitive dissonance will even set in. They'll be like, "eh, Ok it's Obama's fault", move on, and try to get him on the ballet and vote for him again in 2026.

He has half of Congress sucking the same dick he fucked little girls with. Fuck the whole lot of them.

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How have I never seen that photo before?

That girl looks to be what, maybe 14 or 15?

How the actual fuck is that not the end of everything for a grown man In public life??

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5 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

This is just another example of how absolutely stupid his cult is. I don't think cognitive dissonance will even set in. They'll be like, "eh, Ok it's Obama's fault", move on, and try to get him on the ballet and vote for him again in 2026.

He has half of Congress sucking the same dick he fucked little girls with. Fuck the whole lot of them.

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3 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

How have I never seen that photo before?

That girl looks to be what, maybe 14 or 15?

How the actual fuck is that not the end of everything for a grown man In public life??

Cause his followers are fucking idiots.

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35 minutes ago, HornPhD said:

I did a reverse image search and an independent one; and couldn’t find the second image.

 

30 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

How have I never seen that photo before?

That girl looks to be what, maybe 14 or 15?

How the actual fuck is that not the end of everything for a grown man In public life??

For the sake of argument, are we sure the second image isn't AI told to fiddle with the first one?

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2 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Yeah but the virulent racists are waking up. 

 

This is a joke too. In 1 month when the news has moved on to somethign else, this dipshit will go back to sucking Chumps tiny, pedo dick. Nothing hurts Chump because his base are immoral stupid fuckheads incapable of demanding any integrity and dignity from him.

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9 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Yeah but the virulent racists are waking up. 

 


Holy shit.  Let history record that, on this day and at this time, I agreed with Nick Fuentes.    

There was more from Fuentes:  "The Republicans must be hanged in the midterms. Trump must fúcking pay for this. You don't need our support anymore? Forget about the midterms. The 2026 midterms, it just needs to be a Democrat avalanche. The Republicans are traitors... they shít on on our face."
 

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12 minutes ago, LTbear said:

 

For the sake of argument, are we sure the second image isn't AI told to fiddle with the first one?

Hmm, I guess that could be.

 

But there are still the stories of him walking in on teenagers in their dressing room: 

Timeline of Trump's Creepiness While He Owned Miss Universe

 

So, yeah, why do we need to wait for the Epstein file to hang this motherfucker from a tree...?

 

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2 hours ago, Red Five said:

So how long after Elon said that Trump was all over the Epstein files did it magically all turn into a hoax?

 

1 hour ago, Captainant said:

approximately one bombing run on Iranian nuclear facilities, and then the conversation moved right along

 

Elon's tweet about Trump being in the Epstein files was on June 5th, the US bombed Iran on the 22nd of June, so about 2 Scaramuccis

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We're at the stage that unless you see a verified media outlet post a "bombshell" photo, you need to assume it's AI.

Especially when it's just something you saw being shared without attribution on one of the socials.

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Blah blah blah.

Y'all know that in the end, nothing matters.

This could blow wide open with a video of Trump sodomizing and then beheading an infant, and as the rest of the world gasps in horror, MAGA would smile about how much that "owns the libs, look at their sweet libtears," and he'll GAIN support.

Pay no attention to their complaints and discomfort today.  They always come around.  Always.  100% of the time.  Remember "shoot a man in the face in the middle of 5th avenue and not lose a single vote?"  Yeah, he was dead-right, and still is.

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5 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

This could blow wide open with a video of Trump sodomizing and then beheading an infant, and as the rest of the world gasps in horror, MAGA would smile about how much that "owns the libs, look at their sweet libtears," and he'll GAIN support.

Okay, let's get serious. That situation might be what prevents a third term.

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Just now, South Austin said:

Okay, let's get serious. That situation might be what prevents a third term.

Oh....my sweet summer child.  "Terms" are such a quaint notion.  We don't do "terms" anymore.  The proper word is "reign."  And nothing ends a monarch's reign but his death.

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31 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

There was more from Fuentes:  "The Republicans must be hanged in the midterms. Trump must fúcking pay for this. You don't need our support anymore? Forget about the midterms. The 2026 midterms, it just needs to be a Democrat avalanche. The Republicans are traitors... they shít on on our face."

Bruh, you guys have been laying on the bed begging for it for 9 years. NOW you're questioning how it tastes?

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19 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Word salad. This is the innocent man Zeus is defending.

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has any other president called into random shows during the week to talk about whatever the fuck he wants?

"this is, uh, barry O in DC, first time, long time. i think the nats need to seriously consider trading harper for a top of the rotation starter and some bullpen help. what do you guys think? i'll hang up and listen."

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1 hour ago, TexArcher said:

How have I never seen that photo before?

That girl looks to be what, maybe 14 or 15?

How the actual fuck is that not the end of everything for a grown man In public life??

probably fake along with the video killed the radio star one.

 

Just now, The Dog said:

Someone’s getting thrown under the bus.

 

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9 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

Boebert sent out a similar tweet after also voting to block the release.

 Because they are getting angry calls from MAGA to say this then an angry call from Trump to block it (which isn’t reported on right wing media.)

 

Would be surprised if he throws Bondi under the bus.

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25 minutes ago, elfenix said:

has any other president called into random shows during the week to talk about whatever the fuck he wants?

"this is, uh, barry O in DC, first time, long time. i think the nats need to seriously consider trading harper for a top of the rotation starter and some bullpen help. what do you guys think? i'll hang up and listen."

"Thanks for the vine Jim, this is Joe B. calling in from the great state of Delaware, I think the Delaware Blue Hens should be in the ACC and it's the BOMC that's keeping them out, what do you think? I'll hang up and listen"

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1 hour ago, crash_davis said:

Cause his followers are fucking idiots.

The motherfucking rapist is literally ON TAPE saying "and  when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything."

And millions of (white) women voted for this demon. 

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 Because they are getting angry calls from MAGA to say this then an angry call from Trump to block it (which isn’t reported on right wing media.)
 
Would be surprised if he throws Bondi under the bus.

Oh, he doesn’t? All that stuff he’s been calling a hoax that was written by Obama, Comey, Hillary, and Biden? Sometimes I wonder how these people keep all this categorized in their heads.
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2 hours ago, Red Five said:


Wow. Never seen that before. I swear, Trump could leave the White House tomorrow wearing a t-shirt that says “I like to rape underage girls. The younger the better.” and his base would be like “He must be trying to cover for the Clintons for some reason, but why??”.

The nation was not paying attention when we learned Trump intentionally ogled girls aged 14-19 in various stages of undress at his Miss Teen USA pageant. That we’re here now should not be a surprise to any of us.

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20 minutes ago, Gourmand said:

The motherfucking rapist is literally ON TAPE saying "and  when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything."

And millions of (white) women voted for this demon. 

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25 minutes ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

"Thanks for the vine Jim, this is Joe B. calling in from the great state of Delaware, I think the Delaware Blue Hens should be in the ACC and it's the BOMC that's keeping them out, what do you think? I'll hang up and listen"

EPIC!   RACK THAT GUY!

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4 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

You know this is where tge Epstein/Trump scandal is headed image.jpeg.9781855ec87abef337cf85949d087ae5.jpeg

Over and over again. That was posted October of 2016 and it’s still basically all you need to know about the Trump experience  



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