Overview
- Sen. Ron Wyden unveiled the Produce Epstein Treasury Records Act, which would require Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to provide all Epstein-related suspicious activity reports, lists of filing institutions and named parties, and summaries of any related investigations.
- Wyden plans to file the measure as an amendment to the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act to try to compel compliance from resistant agencies.
- Finance Committee staff reviewed a large tranche of Epstein-related Treasury files in person in 2024, but Wyden says Treasury has refused to deliver the complete set to the committee.
- Wyden cites thousands of flagged transactions, including 4,725 wire transfers totaling nearly $1.1 billion in a single account and roughly $1.5 billion across four banks, with a 2019 JPMorgan report covering $1.1 billion.
- The records request spans major banks and figures, including JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon, UBS, Wells Fargo, Alfa Bank, Sberbank, Leon Black, Peter Thiel, Jes Staley, Les Wexner, Alan Dershowitz, and Jean‑Luc Brunel.