LINK to the letter on the finance committee -be sure to look at the footnotes which are not including in my copy paste below
The Honorable Scott Bessent
Secretary
Department of the Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20220
Dear Secretary Bessent:
I write regarding the Treasury Department’s decision to withhold the production of
materials it has collected related to Jeffrey Epstein to the Senate Committee on Finance (“the
Committee”). As you know, I have already twice asked your office to produce the Epstein files
to the Committee, but each time you have refused. Recent comments you made at a conference
also suggest that you are not only personally familiar with these documents, but directly
responsible for the decision to withhold the Epstein files from Congress. This ill-advised
decision is impeding my investigation into the financing of Epstein’s sex trafficking and
preventing transparency into one of the worst pedophile rings in U.S. history.
As you are aware, on February 14, 2024, Democratic and Republican staff of the Senate
Finance Committee conducted in camera review at the Treasury Department of thousands of
pages of Treasury records documenting the flow of money in and out of Jeffrey Epstein’s
accounts. These records contain significant information on the sources of funding behind
Epstein’s sex trafficking activities. For example, one of the documents indicates that between
2003 and 2019, there were more than 4,725 wire transfers totaling $1.08 billion involving Jeffrey
Epstein and his associates, including Darren Indyke, Harry Beller, Richard Kahn and Erika
Kellerhals.1 These documents also contain details of hundreds of millions in payments to Epstein
from Wall Street financiers, including $170 million Leon Black paid Epstein for purported tax
and estate
Furthermore, these records show that Epstein used correspondent accounts at multiple
Russian banks, to process hundreds of millions of payments related to potential sex trafficking.
Several of these Russian banks are now under U.S. sanctions and many of the women and girls
Epstein targeted came from Russia, Belarus, Turkey and Turkmenistan.3 These records outline
specific names of women and girls, correspondent bank account numbers in Russia used to
process the payments, as well as details on Epstein associates who had signatory authority over
Epstein’s accounts and signed off on payments related to sex trafficking.
The files reviewed in camera by Committee staff last February were likely just a portion
of the information related to Jeffrey Epstein compiled by the Treasury Department’s Financial
Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). Accordingly, I wrote you earlier this year asking that
the Treasury produce the Epstein Files to the Finance Committee for further investigation and
seeking additional information.4 You have failed to comply with my repeated requests, and your
department provided the following evasive response acknowledging the in camera review while
refusing to provide any of the documents:
Thank you for your March 11, 2025 letter regarding your investigation into Mr. Jeffrey
Epstein’s sex trafficking network. As you are aware, the Department of the Treasury has
previously made documents available relating to this matter in response to your
inquiries. Accordingly, we understand that you have the information you seek from the
Treasury related to this request.5
In June I resubmitted my request to the Treasury Department and raised concerns that the
Trump Administration was withholding these documents from Congress to protect President
Trump. In the days leading up to this second request, Elon Musk claimed that President Trump is
“in the Epstein files” and “that is the real reason that they not been made public.” My concerns
were further validated by reports that FBI agents frequently redacted President Trump’s name in
the Epstein files in order to “protect his privacy” and were instructed by FBI leadership to “flag”
any mentions of Trump in the Epstein files.6 In response, you provided the same evasive non-
answer and once again refused to produce the SARs to the Committee:
Thank you for your June 16, 2025 letter regarding your investigation into Mr. Jeffrey
Epstein’s sex trafficking network. As you are aware, the Department of the Treasury has
previously made documents available relating to this matter in response to your
inquiries. As stated in our prior communication, it is understood that you have the
information you seek from Treasury related to this request.7
More recently, I was alarmed by comments you made at the Young America’s
Foundation Conservative Student Conference regarding the Epstein files in the Treasury
Department’s possession. It appears that not only are you familiar with Treasury’s Epstein files,
you are personally overseeing efforts to prevent the release of these documents to the
Committee. In response to a question from a college student, you indicated that the Epstein files
were “sitting there” at the Treasury Department and that the Department’s job was only to
“collect them.”8 Drawing a distinction without any meaningful difference, you then stated that
“there were no files, per se, just hundreds and thousands of reports” and “our job is simply to
collect the reports”.9
Lastly, you implied that I was violating the law related to Suspicious Activity Reports
(SARs) yet conveniently ignored the fact that the previous Trump Administration produced
copies of SARs on Hunter Biden to Senators Grassley and Johnson, who then published the
contents of SARs in reports just ahead of the 2020 election.10 In fact, FinCEN, under the
leadership of Trump appointee Ken Blanco, expedited production the Hunter Biden SARs to
Grassley and Johnson, who then cited SARs as “confidential documents” in reports containing
information from SARs.11
The Treasury Department readily served as an opposition research arm for President
Trump’s unsuccessful 2020 reelection campaign. Now, however, despite the Administration’s
explicit promises to publicize this information, it seems that Treasury has chosen to use its
authorities to protect President Trump from the possibility that additional ties to Epstein may
come to light if the Epstein files are produced.
The facts are clear. Treasury has the authority to produce the Epstein files to the Finance
Committee. You have simply chosen not to.
Thorough vetting of Epstein’s finances and his sex trafficking network should not be a
partisan issue, and it should not matter whether President Trump or any powerful Wall Street
financiers are implicated in the Epstein files. This is about transparency and accountability for
the victims of Epstein’s sex trafficking activities. So far, the public has received but empty
promises and a cover up of epic proportions by the Trump Administration on Jeffrey Epstein
Based on my investigation to date in the Epstein matter, there appear to be numerous
additional people who need to be held accountable for the crimes they helped facilitate. Given
the scale of Epstein’s sex trafficking operation, which victimized thousands of women and girls
and reached around the globe, it is preposterous and unacceptable and that only Epstein himself
and Ghislaine Maxwell have faced prosecution. There is no doubt that the Trump
administration’s ongoing coverup of the Epstein files is giving comfort to the pedophiles and
accomplices who were a part of his sex trafficking ring.
The Treasury records shine a light on how high-profile individuals that paid Epstein
staggering sums of money, which was then used to move women around the world or engage in
dubious transactions indicative of money laundering. They also show how U.S. financial
institutions turned a blind eye to the financing of Epstein’s criminal network, simply waiving the
payments through without properly reporting them to U.S. authorities in a timely fashion, as
required by law. Financial institutions, attorneys and agents actively participated in Epstein’s
illegal operations or were grossly negligent. They must all be held accountable.
In order to assist my investigation into the financing of Epstein’s sex trafficking
activities and inform the members of the Committee, please provide all Treasury Department
documents, including suspicious activity reports, concerning transactions with Jeffrey Epstein
and any of his co-conspirators (whether indicted or unindicted), including, but not limited to
transactions between Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and any of the following individuals and
entities, no later than September 11, 2025:
- Jeffrey Epstein
- Ghislaine Maxwell
- Darren K. Indyke
- Richard D. Kahn
- Harry Beller
- Erika Kellerhals
- Southern Trust Company, Inc.
- Southern Financial LLC
- Haze Trust
- Environmental Solutions Worldwide, Inc.
- The 1953 Trust
- Plan D, LLC
- Great St. Jim, LLC
- Nautilus, Inc.
- Hyperion Air, LLC
- Poplar, Inc.
- J Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation Inc.
- Gratitude America Ltd. (501c3 entity)
- Butterfly Trust
- La Hougue (trust in island of Jersey)
- Scott Borgerson
- Malcolm Grumbridge
- J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. (and subsidiaries)
- Deutsche Bank (and subsidiarie
- Bank of America (and subsidiaries)
- Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (and subsidiaries)
- UBS Financial Services
- Wells Fargo
- Alfa Bank
- Sberbank
- Jes Staley
- Leon D. Black
- Debra R. Black
- Black Family Partners, LP
- Elysium Trust
- Elysium Management, LLC
- J Black Trust
- Melanie Spinella
- BV70, LLC
- Les Wexner
- Bella Wexner
- Abigail Wexner
- The Wexner Foundation
- Arts Interests
- Health and Science Interests
- The Wexner Children’s Trust II
- International Charitable Interests
- L Brands (formerly Limited Brands)
- Alan Dershowitz
- Glenn Dubin
- Christie’s
- Sotheby’s
- HB Multi-Strategy Holdings, Ltd
- Highbridge Capital Corporation
- AP Narrows Holding AP
- LDB 2011 LLC
- Elizabeth Johnson
- Johnson & Johnson
Thank you for your attention to this important matter. Should you have any questions or wish to
discuss this request, please do not hesitate to contact me or my staff
