Two new lists of Jeffrey Epsteins potential clients and accomplices were announced on Wednesday: one from an ongoing congressional investigation, and another compiled by the deceased sex traffickers victims.
The independent announcements came the morning after the Trump administrations most recent attempt to avoid transparency regarding its decision to close the investigation into Epstein by re-releasing for the third time a redacted, sanitized version of the Epstein files with almost no new information.
The first list of potential co-conspirators, compiled by the US Senate Finance Committee, contains 58 individuals and entities with known financial ties to Epstein. The committee requested records of suspicious transactions between those listed and Epstein, Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden wrote in his letter to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, to prove financial ties between any co-conspirators, and so that the government could identify the financial institutions that reported suspicious activity but did not act on it, and hold them accountable.
The Treasury records shine a light on how 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. They also show how US financial institutions turned a blind eye to the financing of Epsteins criminal network, simply waiving the payments through without properly reporting them to U.S. authorities in a timely fashion, as required by law.
A number of those listed have already paid over $1 billion in lawsuit settlements to prevent cases regarding their involvement with Epstein from going to trial, including disgraced Wall Street billionaire Leon Black, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan Chase. Others under investigation include Victoria's Secret founder Les Wexler along with his family, companies, and his childrens trust fund Trump impeachment lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Wells Fargo, Johnson & Johnson, and a number of trusts and shell corporations created by Epstein.
So far, the Treasury has been unwilling to cooperate with Wyden, instead laying blame on former President Joe Biden, who did grant the Finance Committee access to certain documents in 2024. Bessent has even gone as far as to lob thinly veiled threats at Wyden if he continues his inquiry. During an event held by the Young Americas Foundation in August, Bessent simultaneously claimed that the Treasury had no power to investigate financial crimes and threatened to investigate Wydens finances, claiming without evidence that the senator engaged in insider trading.
Any law enforcement person who wants to come and see them, we hold them. Our job we are not detectives. We collect them. It's just like the when we make payments, the Treasury, the Commerce Department, tells us to make a payment. We are a paymaster, Bessent stammered. Sen. Wydens rich. Sen. Wyden, somehow his stock trading account Sen. Wyden trades better than Paul Pelosi. He was up 125% and then 75%. So, I would I'm not going to disclose anything because I've never looked, but I would guess there's some stories on Sen. Wyden.
The US House Committee on Oversight made a similar request to the Treasury in late August, asking Bessent to hand over all relevant suspicious activity reports no later than Sept. 15. The request is part of the Committees separate investigation into the governments handling of Epsteins case. Its investigation goes beyond finances, however, and seeks to uncover other evidence tying potential accomplices to Epsteins sex trafficking operation.
A group of Epsteins victims joined a press conference on Wednesday held by committee leaders Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA). Many shared their painful experiences, expressed disgust at the Trump administrations decision to transfer Epstein accomplice Ghislane Maxwell to a resort-like prison facility, and the governments repeated failure to hold those connected to Epstein accountable.
Lisa Phillips, a fashion model who had been abused by Epstein and his associates since she was a teenager, gave the Trump administration an ultimatum: release the names of Epsteins accomplices, or she and his other victims would.
"We will confidentially compile the names we all know are regularly in the Epstein world, said Phillips. Transparency is justice. Release the files, end the secrecy, and stand with us in declaring that no one no billionaires, no politicians, no world leaders is above the law."
Sen. Ron Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, pushed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to release files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to the Senate Finance Committee.
Sen. Ron Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, wrote to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to request the release of Treasury files related to Jeffrey Epstein to the Senate Finance Committee.
The Oregon senator, who has been investigating Epstein for years, specifically requested in his letter -- which was sent on Tuesday -- "all files related to transactions with Epstein and any co-conspirators," including "suspicious activity reports" (SARs) issued by financial institutions.
The reports flagged concerning payments made to or from Epstein, his convicted co-conspirator Ghislane Maxwell and 58 other people and groups, according to Wyden.
Elizabeth JohnsonCouldn't they have combined these into Johnson, Johnson & Johnson?
Johnson & Johnson
Couldn't they have combined these into Johnson, Johnson & Johnson?
trigger warning the word list is used in articleStill not over your last topic, eh?
Company retreats to Epstein Island, an America finance tradition. But seriously everyone knows he was involved in finance, that's obviously not what people wanted to know.
Still not over your last topic, eh?
just a warning as they use compilation of names in the Epstein Files as the word listI mean, yeah, that is what a list is.
heads up to anyone that don't like that usage
I mean, yeah, that is what a list is.
Banks and Trusts for days
Couldn't they have combined these into Johnson, Johnson & Johnson?
No, because JJJ could also mean J Jonah Jameson.
so it was all projection
he kept saying Spiderman was actually a villian but it was him, JJJ