Follow the Money: Why Treasury Is Blocking Access to the Epstein Files - JP Morgan Chase cover-up (Sen. Wyden)

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13. The Compliance Conundrum

There once was a senator—Wyden—
Who said Treasury’s files were lyin’ in
A vault locked up tight,
With Bessent saying “No—quite
A lot more than I care to confide in.”

Wyden shouted, “Now here’s what I’ve found:
Epstein’s cash flowed unbound underground.
The bank kept it hush—
Not a bureaucrat’s blush—
’Cause his business was simply too sound.”

J.P. Morgan, said Wyden, did stash
Epstein snug in a “Wall of Cash.”
They saw red flags wave,
Yet they’d quietly behave—
For a client whose wealth couldn’t crash.

Suspicious reports trickled slow—
Just millions while Epstein lay low.
But the moment he died,
That dam broke wide—
And a billion-and-change came in tow.

A compliance employee once wrote,
“Cash for jet fuel?”—a dubious note.
But they let it proceed,
Though the flags all agreed
This was not how one fuels up a boat.

Now subpoenas are starting to rain;
Both committees are turning the chain.
“Hand the documents here—
Every transfer made clear—
Till the money map fully explains.”

Wyden charted the transfers, in line,
That went Maxwell’s way through the pipeline.
Not a side-plot or whim—
But part of the dim
Financial machinery’s design.

So the message from Wyden rings sunny:
“Don’t get lost in the spin or the funny.
Ignore all the noise,
The distractions, the ploys—
If you want the truth: follow the money.”