Why Is the GOP Blocking Epstein Bank Records?

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... His banks were fined by the Government and the financial institutions paid over $365 million dollars in civil legal settlements to victims for failing to flag suspicious bank transactions involving his businesses over the years.

Those financial transactions could provide a road map of Epstein's crimes -- the scope of his illicit activities and who else was involved.

Wyden has been doing what others have failed to do -- and that includes officials in both the Biden and the Trump administrations.

Epstein's transactions, according to Wyden " who saw some of them under the Biden administration -- were connected to payments made to women and others who presumably worked for him as part of his various criminal networks. ...

Like everything else Epstein, that investigation died. No one was charged, and it's not clear why. The public, and especially Epstein's victims, deserve to know what happened " and whether there was any undue influence that led the case to be scuttled " and another opportunity to put Epstein behind bars wasted.

Wyden would like to see an unredacted copy of that report. But just like the Epstein' files, the DOJ is making it as difficult as possible. ...

Another view ...

Republicans Block Epstein Financial Records Subpoena (October 2025)
www.kbklawyers.com

... Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian expose how House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan killed subpoenas for Jeffrey Epstein's financial records from four major banks just as Congress was poised to investigate $1.5 billion in suspicious transactions. ...

@#2

Who might Rep Jordan be trying to protect?

@#7 ... why didn't Biden release the Bank Records? ...

Good question.

But now it is the GOP that is blocking the release.

Why?

OpEd: Why Biden didn't release the Epstein files -- but maybe should have (February 2026)
thehill.com

... In December, former Vice President Kamala Harris told late-night host Jimmy Kimmel why the Biden Administration had not released the so-called Epstein files during the four years that President Joe Biden was in office.

"We strongly and rightly believed that there should be an absolute separation between what we wanted as an administration and what the Department of Justice did," she said. "We absolutely adhered to that."

Just a month earlier, Harris had criticized President Trump for waiting for Congress to act. "Release the files," she said. "He is the president of the United States, the head of the executive branch."

So which is it? Did Biden have the authority to release the files or not? Should he have wielded it or not? The answer is a bit of both.

What Harris is suggesting is that Biden left that decision to his Attorney General, Merrick Garland. Garland viewed it as his role to defend the Justice Department's independence vigorously from political influence. ...