Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) just threw gasoline on the Epstein fire by handing Attorney General Bondi a detailed map of Jeffrey Epstein’s money network, based on over $1.5 billion in suspicious wire transfers flagged by four major banks. These funds, Wyden says, helped finance Epstein’s global sex-trafficking operation—and the Treasury Department has known about it for years.
“I am convinced that the DOJ ignored evidence found in the U.S. Treasury Department’s Epstein file,” Wyden wrote in a letter to Bondi. That file, he said, includes “extensive details on the mountains of cash Epstein received from prominent businessmen that Epstein used to finance his criminal network.”
Wyden is now publicly demanding action, right as Donald Trump tells his followers to move on from the scandal. But this new evidence may make that impossible.
“Epstein clearly had access to enormous financing to operate his sex trafficking network,” Wyden told Bondi, according to The New Republic. “And the details on how he got the cash to pay for it are sitting in a Treasury Department filing cabinet.”
His team combed through over 4,700 wire transfers linked to Epstein. Much of the evidence, Wyden says, is already in the government’s hands—and it’s just collecting dust. He laid out seven specific investigative paths for Bondi and the DOJ to follow. “I’m handing Trump’s DOJ a ready-made case with seven different lines of investigation for them to follow the money on Jeffrey Epstein,” Wyden tweeted.
Among the targets? Big names on Wall Street and even shady Russian banks.
“Trump’s DOJ needs to demand more documents and more answers from banks that worked with Epstein,” Wyden wrote. “That includes investigating how Epstein used shady, sanctioned Russian banks to send hundreds of millions of payments likely linked to sex trafficking.”
He didn’t stop there. “My investigators also found that several ultra-wealthy Wall Street financiers, including Leon Black, paid Jeffrey Epstein hundreds of millions of dollars,” Wyden added. “There’s a clear paper trail here between Epstein and these guys, and DOJ needs to follow the money to figure out why.”
The Treasury Department pushed back, claiming Wyden never asked the Biden administration for these documents. But that’s not true. His staff did an in-camera review—meaning they saw the documents privately—and tried to get the Senate to subpoena them. But Republican senators blocked it.
“In 2024, soon after Wyden’s staff viewed these Treasury documents… Wyden actively moved to get the Senate to subpoena their release,” reported The New Republic. But not a single GOP senator on the Finance Committee, including Mike Crapo and Marsha Blackburn, backed him.
“That also has very dark implications,” wrote journalist Greg Sargent. “You’d think MAGA would now intensify pressure on Senate Republicans to seek access to these Treasury documents as well.”
But instead of fighting for answers, MAGA leaders are going silent. Some, like Kash Patel and Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk, are backing off the Epstein story. Speaker Mike Johnson even shut down a vote on releasing the files.
Still, Wyden isn’t letting go.
“This would keep the spotlight focused where it counts,” Sargent wrote. “The Trump administration possesses large amounts of information about Epstein’s corrupt and depraved dealings with unidentified members of the global elite, and Trump and his top advisers—with active GOP acquiescence—are now all in on the elite cover-up.”
Bondi now holds the paper trail. The question is: will she follow it?
