Bloomberg reports:

A key Senate Democrat asked Bank of New York Mellon Corp. for information about $378 million in transfers processed for Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who died in jail in 2019 as he faced sex trafficking charges.

Ron Wyden, the Senate Finance Committee’s top Democrat, wrote Wednesday to BNY Chief Executive Officer Robin Vince to seek details about 270 wire transfers in and out of accounts held by Epstein, including a series of “highly suspicious” payments of $1 million to Epstein accounts at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

BNY failed to report all of the transactions to the US Treasury Department until 2019, which “may have enabled Jeffrey Epstein’s horrific crimes and allowed the abuse of women and girls to continue for years,” wrote Wyden, an Oregon Democrat. “Epstein was moving enormous sums of money around the globe to traffic women and girls, and BNY was well positioned to blow the whistle.”

Wyden’s letter comes as President Donald Trump’s Justice Department faces calls to release more records from the government’s investigations tied to Epstein, as required under legislation passed last year. Wyden has also attacked Trump’s Treasury Department for failing to release information about more than $1.5 billion in Epstein transactions that flowed through several US and Russian banks.

The senator, who has been tracing money related to Epstein for four years, is pushing legislation that would require the Treasury Department to turn over its bank records related to the financier.

“There is a pervasive culture of lawlessness on Wall Street as these banks turn a blind eye to the criminal activities of billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein,” Wyden said in a statement. “Every one of these banks that enabled Epstein by waiting years to flag his suspicious transactions ought to face criminal investigation for violating the Bank Secrecy Act.” [Continue reading…]