Senator Ron Wyden is accusing the Justice Department and the FBI of withholding a key record from the Epstein files, demanding in a letter obtained exclusively by MeidasTouch that Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel immediately turn over every FBI interview report tied to the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and his associates.
In the letter, dated Sept. 30, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee reveals that his investigators recently learned the FBI possesses an FD-302 report, the bureau's official record of a witness interview, memorializing an interview with a banker tied to Epstein. That interview was conducted as part of a criminal investigation into Epstein and his associates, Wyden writes, and the report was not included in any of the documents DOJ has released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
"The existence of this FBI 302, and its exclusion from the publicly released EFTA files, has heightened my concerns that the DOJ and the FBI are withholding key documents from Congress and the public," Wyden writes.
And Wyden warns that the undisclosed report is likely not the only one. The existence of this 302, he writes, "indicates that it is likely that the FBI possesses additional, related, FBI 302s that have not been released" under the law.
The money trail
The letter builds on Wyden's multi-year Finance Committee investigation into how Epstein financed his sex trafficking operation. Last month, Wyden released a report presenting evidence that executives at JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank and Bank of America violated federal anti-money laundering laws by failing to screen and report Epstein's suspicious transactions in a timely manner.
According to Wyden, a review of records held at the Treasury Department and internal bank documents found that top Wall Street executives knew about Epstein's suspicious financial activity for years, but withheld that information from the government and shielded him from federal scrutiny.
The scale of what the banks allegedly ignored is staggering. Wyden writes that Epstein withdrew millions of dollars in cash with no clear business purpose and was party to thousands of suspicious wire transfers worth at least $1.4 billion.
"By looking the other way for decades, the banks allowed Epstein to have ready and reliable access to cash necessary to recruit, harbor and transport young women and underage girls for the purpose of human trafficking and sexual abuse," Wyden writes.
The demand
Wyden is now demanding that Blanche and Patel immediately produce copies of all FBI 302 reports related to investigations into Epstein and his associates, "including but not limited to 302s generated from interviews with employees of JPMC, Deutsche Bank and Bank of America."
A thorough review of the undisclosed interview report, and any others generated during the FBI's investigation, "will be critical to my ongoing investigation of this matter," Wyden writes.
The letter raises serious questions about whether the Trump administration has fully complied with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which requires the release of Epstein-related records. If Wyden is right, the government has been sitting on at least one interview with a banker connected to Epstein, and potentially more, while telling the public the files have been released.
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