Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, announced on Wednesday he was putting forward a bill to force the Treasury Department to turn over all of Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records to the Senate investigators.

“ Following new revelations about Jeffrey Epstein’s deep and long-running relationship with J.P Morgan, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today introduced the Produce Epstein Treasury Records Act (PETRA) to compel Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to turn over Epstein-related Treasury records to Senate investigators,” read a release from the Finance Committee.

Wyden revealed in July that his committee previously uncovered over 4,000 wire transfers to Epstein that were flagged by the government as suspicious.

“Let me repeat that: 4,725 wire transfers, adding up to nearly $1.1 billion, flowing in and out of just one of Mr. Epstein’s bank accounts. If you ask me, that is more than 4,000 potential lines of investigation right there. Hundreds of millions more flowed through other accounts. That’s even more to investigate. The file shows that Mr. Epstein used multiple Russian banks, which are now under sanctions, to process payments related to sex trafficking,” Wyden said in a Senate floor speech at the time.

Wyden’s new bill would now force Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to hand over the details of those wires, which he is claiming Bessent is currently refusing to do.

“The basic question here is whether a bunch of rich pedophiles and Epstein accomplices are going to face any consequences for their crimes, and Scott Bessent is doing his best to make sure they won’t. My head just about exploded when I heard Bessent say it wasn’t his department’s job to investigate these Epstein bank records, because it’s simply impossible that somebody with his background in finance is unaware of FinCEN or any of the other investigative offices within the Treasury,” Wyden said in a statement, adding:

From the beginning, my view has been that following the money is the key to identifying Epstein’s clients as well as the henchmen and banks that enabled his sex trafficking network. It’s past time for Bessent to quit running interference for pedophiles and give us the Epstein files he’s sitting on.

The Finance Committee press release then listed the names of individuals and financial institutions it would like Bessent to turn over all Epstein-related files on. The statement concluded:

The legislative text of the bill, available here, seeks “all suspicious activity reports relating to Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators (whether indicted or unindicted) and any third party individual or entity that transacted with Jeffrey Epstein” including but not limited to the following:

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.

Butterfly Trust

La Hougue

Scott Borgerson

Malcolm Grumbridge

J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. (and any subsidiary thereof)

Deutsche Bank (and any subsidiary thereof)

Bank of America (and any subsidiary thereof)

Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (and any subsidiary thereof)

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

Barclays

Peter Thiel

Valar Ventures

Karyna Shuliak

Appleby law firm

Standard Chartered

HSBC

Julius Baer

BNP Paribas

Citibank

Sarah Kellen

Nadia Marcinko (also known as Nada Marcinkova)

MC2, modeling agency

Jean-Luc Brunel

Read the full statement here.

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