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Drawing from 2003 Epstein 50th Birthday Book, released by the House Oversight Committee, September 2025. Author of drawing not identified.<\/p><\/div>\n

IS COVER-UP OF EPSTEIN\u2019S FINANCIAL CRIMES FINALLY COLLAPSING?<\/a><\/h2>\n

By James Bovard<\/p>\n

In 2025, the Justice Department declared that billionaire Jeffrey \u201cEpstein harmed over one thousand victims<\/a>\u201d \u2013 mostly young females, many of them underage. But a dozen years before his suspicious death in a New York prison cell, Epstein “was granted immunity<\/a> from federal charges, as were all of his potential co-conspirators,\u201d as the New York Times reported in July.\u00a0 That bizarre blanket immunity was a \u201cget out of jail free\u201d card for scores of men who sexually abused under-age females.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But the Trump administration announced in July that the subject was closed. Trump since then has repeatedly denounced the Epstein scandal as a \u201choax,\u201d notwithstanding the thousand victims.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Happily, neither Congress nor the media has submitted to Trump\u2019s de facto order to \u201cmove along, nothing to see here.\u201d The coverup of that Epstein\u2019s financial crime network is starting to collapse. Last week, the New York Times delivered the \u201cfull story of how<\/a> America\u2019s leading lender enabled the century\u2019s most notorious sexual predator.\u201d JPMorgan Bank continued assisting Epstein\u2019s crime sprees long after he pled guilty and spent time in prison for soliciting a minor for prostitution.<\/p>\n

In 1970, Congress enacted the Bank Secrecy Act, making it a crime for banks to keep secrets from the government. Banks were required to file a federal report for any cash transaction exceeding $10,000. The IRS has devastated many small businesses for inadvertently violating that law, as I detailed on Sunday in a New York Post<\/a> piece.\u00a0 But the law didn\u2019t apply to the financial elite.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Epstein was pulling out $800,000 in cash each year, \u201cmuch of which was used to procure girls and young women,\u201d the Times details. Shortly after Epstein\u2019s death in a New York prison cell, in late 2019, JPMorgan \u201cfiled a report with federal regulators that retroactively flagged as suspicious some 4,700 Epstein transactions \u2014 totaling more than $1.1 billion.\u201d Banks are obliged to make such reports within 60 days of the suspicious activity but JPMorgan was 17 years late with some of those reports.<\/p>\n

Those financial crime potential alerts included \u201chundreds of millions of dollars in payments to Russian banks and young Eastern European women\u201d brought to the U.S., according to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR). But Epstein never paid a cent in penalties for the belatedly reported squirrelly dealings that would have doomed average Americans if the IRS targeted them.<\/p>\n

Epstein used a $7.4 million transfer from his JPMorgan account \u201cto buy a green Sikorsky helicopter to fly people to Little Saint James,\u201d his private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Times noted that JPMorgan \u201cwas supporting important cogs in Epstein\u2019s sex-trafficking machinery. On the island, Epstein would compel teenage girls and young women to give him nude massages and have sex with him.\u201d\u00a0 JPMorgan has paid more than $350 million to settle lawsuit claims from Epstein victims.<\/p>\n

After Epstein served time for his child sex crime, JPMorgan welcomed him back and treated him like a star. JPMorgan paid him $9 million in 2011.\u00a0 \u201cThe fact that he remained a client in good standing conferred on him respectability and helped him foster new ties to corporate elites,\u201d the Times noted.\u00a0 After his prison term, Epstein helped arrange a meeting between \u201cJPMorgan\u2019s investment bankers in Israel\u201d and Bibi Netanyahu.<\/p>\n

Rep. Thomas Massie<\/strong> (R-KY) is leading the push for the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a congressional edict that would compel federal agencies to speedily disclose all they have on the\u00a0 Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. The White House is fighting tooth-and-nail to block Massie\u2019s resolution.<\/p>\n

Uncovering the sources\u00a0 and beneficiaries of Epstein\u2019s tainted windfalls could break the dam on the scandal<\/strong>.\u00a0 On Sept. 10, Sen. Wyden introduced the Produce Epstein Treasury Records Act<\/em><\/a> (PETRA) to compel Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to give Senate investigators the Suspicious Activity Reports tied to Epstein and his co-conspirators within 30 days. Wyden notes that those files \u201cdetail Epstein transactions totaling at least $1.5 billion dollars, and they include the names of women and girls he may have trafficked, as well as the identities of individuals whose involvement with Epstein may put them at risk of blackmail or other foreign corruption<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 Wyden commented: \u201cIn this era of misinformation, these<\/a> reports are the coin of the realm.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Trump administration is using shameless pretexts to withhold a vast trove on Epstein\u2019s crime sprees just like the Biden administration covered up racketeering by the Biden crime family.<\/strong> A 2023 House Oversight Committee analysis exposed \u201cthe Biden family\u2019s pattern of<\/a> courting business in regions of the world in which the then Vice President had an outsize role and influenced U.S. policy.\u201d The Committee asserts the Bidens and their associates \u201cestablished a network of over 20 companies\u201d that collected at least $10 million from abroad. \u201cThe Bidens took steps to hide, confuse, and conceal payments they received from foreign nationals,\u201d the Committee reported. Banks and other entities filed 170 suspicious-activity reports tied to foreign payments the Biden family or their associates allegedly received. But the Treasury Department blocked congressional access to the Biden dirt.<\/p>\n

Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, declared, \u201cThe basic question here is whether a bunch of rich pedophiles and Epstein accomplices are going to face any consequences for their crimes, and Scott Bessent is doing his best to make sure they won\u2019t.\u201d\u00a0 Are federal banking laws mere pretenses to empower prosecutors to punish wayward citizens as they please while letting the biggest and richest violators skate free?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The New York Times\u2019 bombshell last week focused primarily on JPMorgan\u2019s inside operations.\u00a0 Can Rep. Massie or Sen. Wyden deliver a similar blockbuster on the Epstein-related conniving in the White House, the Treasury Department, and other federal agencies? Can Congress breach the Iron Curtain that the Trump administration is perpetuating\u00a0 to shroud why Epstein and all his co-conspirators were given blanket federal immunity in 2007 for their sex crim<\/strong>es?<\/p>\n

President Trump is paying a huge cost for refusing to honor his campaign promises to \u201cdrain the swamp\u201d by opening the Epstein files.\u00a0 How many more disclosures of Trump birthday cards to Epstein and federally-protected Epstein crime waves can Trump\u2019s credibility survive?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And will disclosing the Epstein files finally explain why some U.S. politicians have scorned America\u2019s national interest?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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