Epstein's Emails Reveal Money Laundering Probe in Sex Case

[douglas9]

Federal prosecutors expanded their probe into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes in 2007 to include potential charges of money laundering, an effort that included an outreach to one of his most important clients, according to documents and emails from Epstein’s personal Yahoo account.

The lead prosecutor requested that a grand jury issue subpoenas for “every financial transaction conducted by Epstein and his six businesses” dating to 2003, the emails show. Prosecutors also subpoenaed major banks for records about Epstein’s accounts and financial activity, according to two people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified to discuss a sensitive investigation.

Marie Villafaña, who was an assistant US attorney for the Southern District of Florida at the time, even contacted Epstein’s longtime wealth-management client, Les Wexner, the billionaire businessman behind the brands Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works, about the investigation, according to the documents and emails.

Epstein grew furious when he learned that prosecutors had broadened their investigation’s scope, the emails show. His high-powered team of lawyers, including Gerald Lefcourt, Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz, former Bush administration official Jay Lefkowitz and former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, argued that Villafaña was pursuing baseless claims to pressure their client into a plea deal. They launched an aggressive campaign to discredit her attempts to follow the money and pressured her higher-ups to remove her and others from the case—or scuttle the case entirely.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-jeffrey-epstein-emails-money-laundering-charges/

[malaise]

1. Get thee to the greatest page for visibility

Rec

[gab13by13]

2. The one thing that Krasnov is good at,

Money Laundering. The bastards were using little girls to blackmail people.

I always wondered if any girls from Krasnov's Miss Teen USA were funneled to Epstein?

[TheRickles]

5. Donald ID'd the girls at his beauty pageants, Ghislaine groomed them, and Jeffrey pimped them out.

A simple and apparently very effective business model.

[Botany]

8. "I always wondered if any girls from Krasnov's Miss Teen USA were funneled to Epstein?"

One word answer. YES.

Newsweek July 31, 2025.

Epstein Victim Was Contestant in Donald Trump’s Teen Beauty Pageant.

Jane testified that she took part in the Miss Teen USA pageant in 1998, NBC News reported at the time. However, it was not clear if that was before or after she said she visited Mar-a-Lago.

Trump owned the pageant from 1996 until 2015, and four women who competed in the pageant in 1997 told BuzzFeed in 2016 that Trump had walked into their dressing room while they were changing.

During her testimony, Jane said she was sexually abused by Epstein after meeting at a summer arts camp in Michigan in 1994. She said that Maxwell—who is serving a 20-year prison sentence after being convicted of helping Epstein sexually abuse underage girls—would sometimes be in the room when she was abused.

https://www.newsweek.com/epstein-victim-contestant-donald-trump-pageant-2106406

[evolves]

12. My guess is that most of them were funneled there.

His "pageants" were just another part of the huge sex trafficking/blackmail industry run by epstein, and now krasnov.

[GiqueCee]

3. Dershowitz and Starr...

... are known quantities, both of them treacherous liars who will die in disgrace. The other two can't be much better.

[MLWR]

7. Starr is already on the other side of dirt.

[GiqueCee]

15. That's right...

... I'd forgotten that. The timeline of the article was the early 2000s, give or take.

[mwmisses4289]

4. Hhhmmm....

Sounds like she close was to finding out how many politicians and wealthy were involved.

[JT45242]

6. Kenneth starr the hypocrite that keeps on giving

That is a bunch of scumbag lawyers for sure.

[ashredux]

9. Well, there is one business.....It's really good at laundering money...... casinos....🤔

[Easterncedar]

13. Ding ding ding!!!

[Joinfortmill]

10. Epstein was a one man criminal enterprise...

along with his sidekick, Maxwell. But, facilitated by whom, and for what ultimate purpose? We're still not certain. Speculation is Mossad, CIA, and/or other unknown governments.

[VTderry]

21. Pretty sure it was more than one man...

He very likely had a poorly-coiffed, anus-mouthed, equally skeevy "best friend" helping out for much of it.

[Joinfortmill]

23. So it would seem, at least to some extent, but I don't think Krasnov knew the half of it.

I suspect Epstein used him, too, to some extent. But, this is just my take given what little I know.

[Easterncedar]

11. Thiel and Epstein

Soooo much money to Epstein. - for what?

[ToxMarz]

14. Have to wonder what Epstein could offer

He sued Gawker into oblivion for outing him as gay. Not really what Epstein seems to have trafficked. But he also seems to be into 'youth blood transfusions' in his attempts to fight aging. Maybe Epstein had a supply of that.

[VTderry]

22. Maybe Epstein sold shares in the "business"?

Kompromat on other rich folk might be seen as a very valuable investment if one had a mind to restructure the entire social order of the planet.

[Clouds Passing]

16. Good article about Senator Ron Wyden's investigation into the trumpstein financial records

https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/09/25/oregons-u-s-sen-wyden-presses-u-s-treasury-secretary-to-release-epstein-financial-files/

“Calls for more transparency from the treasury and the Department of Justice following its investigation into Epstein have come from people across the political spectrum. Kentucky Republican U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie said Wednesday that he will soon have the 218 signatures needed to force a vote in the House vote on releasing federal investigative files on Epstein.

Wyden said it’s become a major concern to many of his constituents in Oregon.

“Oregonians come up to me at the checkout line at Fred Meyer, when I’m walking on the street, basically saying: ‘keep it up,’” he said. “They know that I’ve been asking Trump people, that I’m asking Pam Bondi repeatedly, and people want answers,” he said.”

[twodogsbarking]

17. It is far more than raping children. Wait and see.

[Historic NY]

18. Looks like someone lied his ass off to Congress. Where's the indictment ?

Last month, Acosta told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that he didn’t recall any discussion of “potential financial crimes” as part of his office’s Epstein investigation. Yet the emails and documents from Epstein’s Yahoo account show that prosecutors in his office discussed the financial-crimes component of the investigation with Acosta and copied him on correspondence about it. Records obtained as part of the money laundering probe were stored at the US Attorney’s Office in a folder titled, “Money Laundering,” which contains “attorney research and handwritten notes,” according to a partial list of the government’s evidence that was filed in a related court proceeding.

[3auld6phart]

19. Donnie numb nuts

Is not the only that would like to bury these Files to be shredded and buried, Star. Dershowitzcan be damn sure there are others. That held or hold positions that keep us Peons in line.

[BlueWavePsych]

20. Kick

[SouthBayDem]

24. Article is paywalled, but there's a free Bloomberg podcast about this

Nov 6, 2025 #Law #Investigation #Podcast
How did Jeffrey Epstein make his money? How did he spend it? In exclusive reporting (https://www.bloomberg.com/features/20..., Jason Leopold reveals that federal prosecutors followed Epstein’s money trail almost two decades ago – in an 18-month money laundering inquiry whose existence has remained hidden until now. In this episode, Leopold and co-host Matt Topic dive into Epstein’s old emails, which capture his fury at the probe and his efforts to discredit the investigation and investigators. And they show which “Epstein Files” documents may hold the keys to the Epstein money mystery.

How did Russian pranksters trick a top government official? What happens to documents flushed down White House toilets? The answers exist. The trick is getting the government to disclose them.

By law, nearly every move federal agencies make—every email, every memo, every receipt—belongs to the public. The key to gaining access is the Freedom of Information Act. It’s the tool that forces the government to open its files…though rarely without a fight.

From Bloomberg & No Smiling, Disclosure is a podcast about cracking open those secrets. Join FOIA reporter Jason Leopold and First Amendment attorney Matt Topic for a guided tour of explosive details, bureaucratic foibles and details that powerful people never wanted you to know. Disclosure premieres Oct. 28 on all podcast platforms.

Bloomberg investigative reporter Jason Leopold and First Amendment attorney Matt Topic trade tales from the FOIA trenches, revealing how the US government really works.

Full transcript