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The Trump-Epstein’s sex trafficking operation might’ve been bigger than we think. A Treasury Department report describes over 4,700 money transfers connected to him. I have a pretty good guess why the president wants this all to go away.
Of all the endless stories about the relationship between the president and dead child-raping sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, this one seems to have scooted under the radar a bit. As the preposterous White House denials pile up, and the attempts at deflection are getting more and more baroque, the work of Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, stands out as conspicuously unspinnable. From The New York Times:
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 JP Morgan 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.
Interesting enough on its own, but there is hidden treasure in there, too. From KPTV:
[Wyden] said investigators found links between Epstein and sanctioned Russian banks, and payments tied to women and girls from countries like Russia, Belarus, Turkey, and Turkmenistan. “These are not conspiracy theories,” Wyden said. “These are real leads pointing to an international sex trafficking operation.”
I have a guess why the president wants this to go away under the rug but, then again, I am possessed of a suspicious mind. Wyden revealed that the Treasury Department has a report describing over 4,700 money transfers connected to Epstein totaling over $1.1 billion-with-a-b. Four thousand money transfers? I wonder what other names might be in that report.
