by Pam Martens and Russ Martens, Wall St On Parade:
Dear Chairman Comer:
On August 31 you sent a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent seeking, no later than September 15, all Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) filed by banks “in reference to or relating to Mr. Jeffrey Epstein and/or Ghislaine Maxwell.”
Your letter of August 31 follows a letter dated July 21 that Senator Ron Wyden, the Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, sent to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. In that letter, Senator Wyden reveals that bipartisan staff of the Senate Finance Committee were allowed earlier this year to look at the SARs material you are seeking from the U.S. Treasury, but not make copies. Senator Wyden writes:
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“On February 14, 2024, bipartisan staff of the Senate Finance Committee conducted in camera review of thousands of pages of Treasury Department files documenting the flow of money in and out of Jeffrey Epstein’s accounts. The Treasury Department’s Epstein file contains significant information on the sources of funding behind Epstein’s sex trafficking activities. For example, one of the documents in the Treasury Department’s Epstein file indicates that between 2003 – 2019, there were more than 4,725 wire transfers totaling $1.08 billion involving Jeffrey Epstein and his associates, including Darren Indyke, Harry Beller, Richard Kahn and Erika Kellerhals. The Treasury Department’s Epstein file also contains details of hundreds of millions in payments to Epstein from Wall Street financiers…”
I want to call your careful attention to the fact that Senator Wyden is using the plural form in his phrase “Wall Street financiers.” Thus far, the only Wall Street financier that has been publicly named for wiring huge sums to Epstein-related accounts is Leon Black, whom Senator Wyden confirms wired $170 million to Epstein’s accounts.
Black is the founder and former CEO of Apollo Global Management, a private-equity firm deeply engaged with Wall Street. Black paid $62.5 million to the U.S. Virgin Islands to resolve its Epstein-related claims against him, including the charge that his money spigot to Epstein helped to keep the sex-trafficking enterprise in operation. Black has been alleged by multiple females to have engaged in sexual abuse including the rape of a minor, the latter allegedly occurring in Epstein’s Manhattan mansion.
If there is a coterie of other Wall Street financiers that are known to the U.S. government to have financed or participated in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking of underage girls then it’s long past the time for the American people to be made aware of these names and for federal prosecutions to begin in earnest.
If the Justice Department had filed its 60-count indictment against Epstein in 2007 and put him away in prison for the decades-long sentence he deserved, the lives of hundreds of his young future victims would have had a different outcome.
The 11th Circuit Appellate Court reviewed the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein case and its failure to inform his victims about its sneaky non-prosecution agreement and issued a scathing opinion on April 15, 2021. The court wrote:
“The facts underlying this case, as we understand them, are beyond scandalous—they tell a tale of national disgrace.
“Over the course of eight years, between 1999 and 2007, well-heeled and well-connected financier Jeffrey Epstein and multiple coconspirators sexually abused more than 30 young girls, including Ms. Wild, in Palm Beach, Florida and elsewhere in the United States and abroad. Epstein paid his employees to find girls and deliver them to him—some not yet even 15 years old. Once Epstein had the girls, he either sexually abused them himself, gave them over to be abused by others, or both. Epstein, in turn, paid bounties to some of his victims to recruit others into his ring.”
While the current President of the United States is calling the Epstein matter “a hoax,” attempting to undermine the public’s legitimate outrage and demand for real answers, the Justice Department confirmed in a July 7 memorandum that “…Epstein harmed over one thousand victims. Each suffered unique trauma.”
Other than Leon Black, what the American people do know at this point is that the only other individual to be publicly named as providing vast sums of wealth to Epstein is Leslie Wexner, who is decidedly not a Wall Street financier. Wexner hails from New Albany, Ohio and is the retailing billionaire and former Chairman and CEO of L Brands, which previously owned such retail chains as Abercrombie & Fitch, Victoria’s Secret, Lane Bryant, Bath & Body Works and others. The value of Epstein’s assets originating from Wexner were estimated at over $100 million at the time of Epstein’s death on August 10, 2019.
Joining the mountain of secret documents related to Epstein and his money men that the American people have yet to see are two separate outside counsel investigative reports on Wexner’s dealings with Epstein. In order to get a fuller picture of Wexner’s involvement with Epstein, you will need to obtain those reports.
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