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Justice Department records show five-year investigation examining possible drug and prostitution links.
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A Drug Enforcement Administration document included in Justice Department files related to Jeffrey Epstein reveals a previously undisclosed federal probe into suspicious wire transfers that investigators believed could be tied to illegal drug activity and prostitution.
According to a report by CBS News, the 69-page DEA document from 2015 shows Epstein and 14 other individuals were targeted in an investigation that began in December 2010 and remained active for at least five years.
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“DEA reporting indicates the above individuals are involved in illegitimate wire transfers which are tied to illicit drug and/or prostitution activities occurring in the U.S. Virgin Islands and New York City,” the memo states.
The file is marked “law enforcement sensitive” and is heavily redacted, including the identities of the additional 14 individuals under investigation and much of the operational detail.
The document appears to be a DEA request submitted to an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces Fusion Center in Virginia, seeking information from other federal agencies as part of an ongoing case. An unnamed law enforcement source told CBS News that for the DEA to initiate such a case, there must be a drug nexus. The request to the Fusion Center suggested the matter was part of a “significant” investigation rather than a routine inquiry.
The memo includes a DEA case number and indicates that the case opened on Dec. 17, 2010, in New York. It also lists the matter as “judicial pending,” suggesting the investigation was still active when the document was drafted in 2015. Another unnamed law enforcement source told CBS News that the “judicial pending” designation may indicate investigators were awaiting court approval for search warrants or other legal action.
Sources involved in the 2018 federal case that led to Epstein’s arrest on sex trafficking charges told CBS News that prosecutors in that case were not aware of the earlier DEA investigation.
The DEA document also references additional federal investigations linked to Epstein. These include a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement probe in West Palm Beach opened in 2006 and closed in 2008; an ICE investigation in Las Vegas opened in 2009 and listed as “pending/01/27/2010”; another ICE investigation in Paris titled Operation Angel Watch, opened in June 2013 and closed later that year; and an FBI investigation opened in 2006 that remained active as of 2015.
