Jeffrey Epstein

I covered the Epstein case for decades. These are the nine questions we actually need answered.

 

Here’s how the Epstein case has consumed Washington

New Republic - A few days ago, as the Jeffrey Epstein scandal gripped Washington, Senator Ron Wyden offered a striking revelation in an interview with The New York Times. The Oregon Democrat said that his investigators had discovered that four big banks had flagged to the Treasury Department $1.5 billion in potentially suspicious money transfers involving Epstein, much of which appeared to be related to his massive sex-trafficking network.

The revelation—which emerged via Wyden’s work as ranking Democrat on the Finance Committee—ratified widespread suspicions that there is still much we don’t know about Epstein’s relations with some of the most powerful and wealthy elites in the world in the lead-up to his 2019 arrest on sex-trafficking charges.  

 

What we know about the Epstein files 

 

MSNBC - The Trump administration just faced another legal setback in its effort to unseal grand jury transcripts related to Jeffrey Epstein, as a federal judge in Florida on Wednesday rejected the government’s bid to unseal Epstein-related transcripts from investigations in that state.

The rejection follows Tuesday’s orders from federal judges in New York that told the Justice Department its motions to unseal grand jury transcripts related to Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell in that state were inadequate. The New York judges gave the DOJ a week to try again and said Maxwell, an Epstein representative and victims can also weigh in by Aug. 5.

Whatever information comes out of this grand jury litigation will necessarily be more limited than the full scope of information that exists about Epstein.