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For nearly two decades, Jeffrey Epstein moved more than a billion dollars through some of the biggest banks in the United States of America. He withdrew millions in unexplained cash. He wired money to women in Russia, Belarus and Turkmenistan. He paid his convicted co conspirator Glenn Maxwell More than $30 million. And at every single step, the banks processing the transactions either fail to notice or or they chose to look away. It's not speculation. That is the conclusion of a brand new investigative report from Senator Ron Wyden released this week after a three year investigation. And what it shows isn't just that Wall street enabled Epstein for two decades. It shows that when a sitting United States Senator tried to get the records to prove it, the Trump administration blocked him, Senate Republicans blocked him, and even CBS News killed the story before it could air. Today we're following the money. So let's get into it. I told you there'd be big breaking news regarding Epstein and well, it is. And a lot of people may not be happy with me reporting this, but I will never stop. So make sure to subscribe to support this work if you can. Like Comment Share because no matter how much I talk about Epstein, I will never stop talking about Epstein until the survivors get justice and get accountability once and for all. So make sure to subscribe if you can. Senator Ron Wyden released the following report today. Looking the other Way How Wall Street Banks Enable Jeffrey Epstein's Sex Trafficking here's what you need to know. Epstein's relationship with Wall street starts at JPMorgan Chase. Between 1998 and 2013, he and his associates held 134 different accounts there. Over that period, more than a billion dollars moved through those accounts. JP Morgan flagged over $7 million in physical cash withdrawals with over $3 million in direct payments to women, more than $30 million to Ghislaine Maxwell alone, some of which she used to purchase a helicopter. Here's the thing. JP Morgan knew exactly who they were banking a 2009 internal report said Epstein was convicted of a felony charge in 2008 and was well known to senior private bankers. By 2008, the bank had already designated him a high risk client because of his ties to human trafficking and underage prostitution. None of that stopped the money. Epstein was part of an elite group of clients at JP Morgan internally called the Wall of Cash, and decisions about keeping him were made by executives who reported directly to Jamie Dimon, the CEO. JP Morgan finally cut him loose in 2013, citing the repetitive nature of the his cash transactions. But According to Senator Wyden, they didn't report any of it to the Treasury Department until 2019, only after Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges, which made the silence from the bank impossible to justify. When JP Morgan finally filed, they flagged more than 5,000 wire transfers totaling $1.3 billion. That is nearly 300 times more than everything they reported while Epstein was alive and banking there. And after JP Morgan pushed him out, Deutsche bank picked him up and kept him as a client until his death in 2019. Deutsche bank had the same pattern, retroactively flagging over $250 million in suspicious transfers only after his arrest, despite their own compliance staff documenting Epstein's attorney, Darren and Dyke, asking bank employees how often he could withdraw cash without creating stuff. Some sort of alert. Deutsche bank paid $150 million to regulators in New York and they never faced a federal employment action. And then there's bank of America. They handled $170 million in wire transfers from billionaire Leon Black to Epstein between 2012 and 2017, supposedly for tax and estate planning advice. Epstein wasn't a licensed tax advisor. Bank of America didn't flag any of it as suspicious until February 2020, nearly eight months after Epstein's arrest. And according to Wieden's investigators, Leon Black provided roughly 90% of Epstein's income during that five year window. And in a settlement with the U.S. virgin Islands, Black admitted Epstein used that money to help fund his trafficking operation there. So what happened to everyone involved? Almost nothing. The bankers that helped enable this, they still work at JP Morgan, they still work at the various banks making millions and millions of dollars a year. And now here's where the story stops becoming about bank compliance and becomes a story about obstruction. For three years, Senator Wyden asked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant three separate times in March, June and September of 2025 to hand over the full set of Epstein related suspicious activity reports at the Treasury Department every single time. Besson's office acknowledged the request and then refused to produce any records. Then in January 2026, treasury confirmed something remarkable. They gave those same files to the Republicans, not the Democrats. At a public appearance, Besson brushed the whole thing off, saying the documents the Department's job is to quote, simply collect the reports. That's not true. Treasury and FinCEN regularly investigate and penalize banks for exactly this kind of violation. They gave a $1.3 billion fine to TD Bank, $390 million fine against Capital One. Bessem's own department aggressively pursued fraud investigations in Minnesota. This year. But somehow there's no urgency for the banks that financed Epstein's trafficking network. And the banks followed the administration's lead. Bank of America told Wyden they would not cooperate. JPMorgan Chase sent a letter blaming the entire thing on Jess Staley, a former executive. A claim that unsealed documents in Wyden's own report directly contradict. And then there's this. In March of 2026, Ron Wyden sat down for a taped interview with then 60 Minutes correspondent Sharon Alfonsi about this exact investigation. Shortly after the interview was taped, CBS News leadership under Bari Weiss fired Alphonse. And the interview never aired. That is serious. That is a major investigation and it's a major development. All while Todd Blanche is set to be confirmed as the next Attorney general. And a new statement this morning released by Epstein survivors. Blast the senators who are enabling Blanche saying, quote, today's vote is a profound disappointment for Epstein survivors. Todd Blanche has failed us at every step of the way. As the Justice Department overseeing the Epstein files review, he allowed the release of survivors names, phone numbers and other deeply personal information, including nude images of children. He concealed the identities of alleged abusers and others connected to Epstein's trafficking network. He participated in the White House situation room meetings that treated the release of the Epstein files as a public relations problem. He moved Ghislaine Maxwell to a low security prison. He has made clear that there will be no further prosecutions for those who participated in the operation. When we met Todd Blanche, he interrupted us. He told us to get to the point. He told us to report what happened to us to the FBI. We already have. Some of us have been reporting these crimes for decades. This was a check the box meeting to secure Senator Tillis vote. The message was unmistakable. They referring to Senator Thom Tillis and John Cornyn, wanted us to go away. We are not going away. For decades, powerful people have counted on survivors staying silent. We didn't then and we won't now. Today's confirmation vote does not end our fight. It only strengthens our resolve. I'll have more updates for you soon. I encourage you to read this full report from Senator Wyden's office. Spread the word. Subscribe to support. See you soon.