The Real Epstein Bombshell Isn’t at DOJ: It’s at Treasury
There is another set of files, being withheld by Scott Bessent, that could finally and fully explode this coverup and bring the proverbial walls tumbling down.
Is everyone looking in the wrong direction? It’s not that the DOJ Epstein files aren’t important—of course they are. They are crucial. Horrific.
But they are also deeply compromised: thousands of hands have been busily scrubbing and redacting them for months now. AG Pam Bondi is clearly using the national security exemption clause in the Transparency Act to withhold the faces, the names, the videos we most need to see. The Act is bad performance art intended to give the illusion of disclosure while protecting the perpetrators and continuing the cover-up.
There is, however, another set of files, that if made public, could finally and fully explode this coverup and bring the proverbial walls tumbling down. They are sitting in the US Treasury Department and being withheld by Secretary Scott Bessent.
This is where the fight must go. These files can take us to the very core of this ongoing criminal enterprise. When we are able to see how much money was involved, where it came from, how it was moved, who received it and how it was used, the deeper layers of the onion can be peeled back. And accountability and justice can truly be pursued.
The real sheroes of this story are the courageous survivors who for decades have refused to be bought off, intimidated and silenced. They are facing a sophisticated and interlocking attack by some of the most powerful men and institutions in the world.
If Bessent is yet another villain, there is also an unsung hero: Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, has been investigating Epstein’s finances since 2022. The Finance Committee has jurisdiction over tax, revenue, IRS oversight, and many aspects of financial regulation, which is why he is using it to “follow the money” in Epstein’s banking and tax affairs.
In September of 2025, Wyden introduced the Produce Epstein Treasury Records Act (PETRA) in congress. Survivors, press freedom and transparency advocates have come forward in support of the bill but it has not made it out of the Finance Committee.
America is wrestling with what will without question be the largest and most far-reaching national scandal in its almost 250 year history.
The number of people prosecuted to date?
One: Ghislaine Maxwell.
President Trump has wished her well and moved her to a minimum‑security federal women’s prison camp in Texas, where among other privileges she has scheduled play time with puppies. (Epstein, the only other person facing prosecution, died before facing trial)
One.
An Operation of Massive Size and Scope
What we have learned from the carefully manipulated and intentionally fragmented files the DOJ has chosen to release is that this criminal enterprise has operated for decades, is international in scope and reach and clearly included a wide range of individuals, organizations, agencies and governments.
In a July 2025 FBI report, DOJ stated that there weren’t dozens of victims as had been reported previously, but revealed they found “over 1000 victims.”
Banks must file a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) when they know, suspect, or have reason to suspect that a transaction involves criminal proceeds, is designed to evade reporting rules, lacks a lawful business purpose, or uses the bank to facilitate crime. In the U.S., a SAR is generally due within 30 days of detecting suspicious activity.
After Epstein’s death in 2019, four banks cumulatively and retroactively flagged 5,000 suspicious wire transfers that moved approximately $1.5 billion in and out of Epstein’s accounts, many over a decade old.
That $1.5 billion in SARs represents a floor, not a ceiling—it captures only what banks eventually chose to flag and excludes potentially billions more in transactions that were processed but never reported as suspicious.
Such an international operation in human trafficking, utilizing billions in funding, with over 1000 victims, would require organized crime-level logistics and multiple acts of governmental complicity.
And if the real purpose of the trafficking was to develop leverage, influence and control over powerful men, who sought this power? How did they use it? To what end?
Is this kompromat continuing to this day? Does it affect global business decisions? American domestic and foreign policy decisions?
The Banks
From Wyden’s investigations to date we are beginning to see the preliminary contours of the enormous financial side of this.
JP Morgan has been the primary facilitator of Epstein’s international operations. Wyden’s investigation found 4725 wire transfers adding up to more than $1.1 billion in just one of Epstein’s accounts. From 2003 to 2019, the bank established accounts for young women who became victims. It routinely transferred large sums into and out of his accounts and even extended considerable loans.
JP Morgan was hardly alone. Bank of New York Mellon, $378 million in 270 wire transfers with no legitimate business purpose. Bank of America, $170 million.
Deutsche Bank, itself an ongoing criminal enterprise and long renowned as a laundromat for Russian oligarchs and Russian organized crime money, processed Epstein payments to Russian models, $800,000 in suspicious cash withdrawals, $7 million to resolve legal issues, and $2.6 million in payments to women covering tuition, rent, and living expenses.
The four banks failed to detect or prevent over a billion dollars of suspicious transactions. The banks materially failed to implement effective anti-money laundering (AML) and know-your-customer (KYC) controls in its wealth management division. Senior leadership in their private‑banking/wealth‑management arms repeatedly overrode or sidelined their compliance departments. Some partied with Epstein.
Bottom line: these banks for years were the indispensable financial partners of Epstein and his operation.
And then there are the three Russian banks that Wyden has flagged so far: Sberbank (Russia’s largest bank, state owned), Alfa Bank (Russia’s largest private bank owned by Oligarchs close to Putin) and a third unidentified bank.
Wyden has discovered hundreds of millions in Russian bank transactions by Epstein accounts specifically associated with sex trafficking activities. These transactions included: names of specific women and/or girls, correspondent bank account numbers in Russia used to process payments and details on Epstein associates who had signatory authority over Epstein’s accounts.
The investigation found that many of the women and girls Epstein targeted came from Russia, Belarus, Turkey, and Turkmenistan. Several of these Russian banks are now under U.S. sanctions.
These banks have deep connections to Russian organized crime—human trafficking is traditionally a significant activity and source of revenue of these criminal organizations. The two identified are owned or controlled by the Russian state under the ultimate direction of Putin.
Intelligence Links
Intelligence connections and networks are notoriously difficult to verify. Access to the files being held in Treasury could change that. Overwhelming circumstantial evidence points to possible multiple connections.
A July 2025 DOJ/FBI memorandum states that searches of Epstein’s properties and devices yielded “more than 300 gigabytes of data and physical evidence.” That data includes documents, videos, photographs, and audio recordings stored in the FBI’s Sentinel case system, plus material on 40+ electronic devices, 26 storage drives, 70+ CDs and six recording devices seized from his residences and offices.
According to an anonymous intelligence source: “Island bristling with technology…world’s largest honeytrap operation.” In the last DOJ tranche of files, Putin is mentioned 1000 times and Moscow 10,000.
It is well established that Ghislaine’s father Robert Maxwell was a Mossad asset and may very well have had relationships with other intelligence agencies including the KGB and the CIA. Epstein’s close and ongoing relationship with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak suggests possible Mossad connections. If Epstein had a multidirectional intelligence operation, supplying Israel and/or Russia with kompromat, it would be malpractice if the CIA also wasn’t at least aware of what was going on.
According to the Daily Beast, U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta, who gave Epstein the 2008 sweetheart deal, told interviewers on the Trump transition team: “I was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone.”
Wyden told the New York Times in July, 2025:
“This horrific sex-trafficking operation cost Epstein a lot of money, and he had to get that money from somewhere.”
S.2746, the Produce Epstein Treasury Records Act (PETRA), is currently stalled in the Senate Finance Committee and has not advanced beyond its initial referral; it has not received a committee markup, floor vote, or companion Senate action beyond introduction as of September 2025.
The bill would require the Treasury Department to deliver to key Senate committees all suspicious activity reports (SARs) and related information involving Jeffrey Epstein, his associates, and entities that transacted with him, within strict deadlines, along with a summary report on any related investigations or enforcement actions.
Specifically, the bill:
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to provide physical copies of all suspicious activity reports related to Jeffrey Epstein, his co‑conspirators, and any third parties or entities that conducted transactions with Epstein or entities he owned or controlled.
Requires that these records be delivered within 30 days of enactment to the Senate Committee on Finance and Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Defines the covered individuals to include Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, named co‑conspirators such as Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, and other associates, as well as a set of named financial institutions and Epstein‑linked entities, trusts, and LLCs.
Mandates that Treasury supply a list of all financial institutions that filed suspicious activity reports, and a list of all individuals and entities identified in those reports.
Requires Treasury to provide aggregated information on the total dollar value of transactions reported, broken down by financial institution.
Instructs the Secretary to submit, within 60 days of enactment, a detailed report on any investigations by Treasury, including FinCEN or other relevant offices, into possible violations of financial laws related to the accounts and transactions identified.
“My follow-the-money investigation into Epstein’s network that began in 2022 will continue regardless of how the Department of Justice proceeds. There is another massive Epstein file in the possession of the Treasury Department containing thousands and thousands of his bank records, and that file must be released too. The information in those bank records, a portion of which my investigators reviewed at the Treasury in 2024, is key to uncovering who financed Epstein’s network, who enabled his trafficking, and who else participated. Secretary Bessent has repeatedly refused to produce those records for further investigation. If he won’t change his tune, Congress must change it for him.”
Let’s Advance the Bill
In the present heated political climate with polling consistently showing substantial bi-partisan majorities favoring the release of all Epstein files held by the DOJ, it is entirely feasible to think that a majority of both the Senate Finance Committee and the full Senate could be achieved to pass S.2746.
The Epstein Files Transparency Act passed by unanimous consent in the Senate and 427-1 in the House.
Our goal must be to make it politically more costly not to move the bill than to move it. The committee chair is Mike Crapo (ID) and there are 14 Republicans and 13 Democrats in total.
The fact that there are no co-sponsors with committee members such as Warren, Sanders, Whitehouse, Cortez Masto and Warnock, signals that Wyden has not decided to prioritize the bill. We must thank the senator for his leadership and urge him to begin a serious effort to move the bill. The time is right for Wyden and allies to secure a hearing or informal briefing.
For PETRA to move, the following steps are necessary:
The committee holds a markup (or folds PETRA’s text into another bill).
A majority of Finance members vote to report it out (even a narrow party‑line vote works).
Leadership then decides whether to give it floor time (where the real battle will be waged).
Senate Finance Committee main line: (202) 224‑4515
Senator Ron Wyden DC Office: (202) 224-5244
https://www.wyden.senate.gov/contact/email-ron
Website for Members and contact information:
https://www.finance.senate.gov/about/membership
How can Secretary Bessent refuse to release the files, and what is his motive?
After witnessing Scott Bessent’s testimony before the House Financial Services Committee last week, his condescending attitude revealed why the regime chose him. He’s the fox guarding the chicken coop. Only problem is, he’s actually working for Moscow in shielding this criminal financial network; and apparently he thinks we’re stupid. Putin knows everything that’s in those records at Treasury. And Scott Bessent is “dispensable.”