SCOOP: Senate investigating Peter Thiel's money ties to Epstein [View all]

A bill introduced Wednesday by US Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) would widen a congressional investigation into the finances behind Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation to include American oligarch Peter Thiel, as well as known Epstein co-conspirators Nadia Marcinko and Jean-Luc Brunel.

The Produce Epstein Treasury Records Act (PETRA) would require the US Treasury to comply with the US Senate Finance Committee’s investigation into the money trail left by Epstein that connects the disgraced, deceased sex criminal to his clients and financial backers. Similar inquiries by the city of New York, the US Virgin Islands, and Epstein’s victims have led to expensive, hasty lawsuit settlement payouts from billionaires and financial institutions in order to prevent potentially incriminating evidence against them from going public.

The legislation will be introduced as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, an annual budget authorization currently working its way through Congress. Tying the legislation to a bill guaranteed a vote will force every senator to go on the record in their support of — or opposition to — accountability for Epstein’s co-conspirators and justice for his victims.

The Senate Finance Committee’s investigation, which began in 2022, now includes Thiel and his venture capital company Valar Ventures, which took a $40 million investment from Epstein. In total, the investigation now encompasses over 70 co-conspirators and entities “that transacted with Jeffrey Epstein.” The committee’s investigators obtained access to a small number of suspicious transaction reports from the US Treasury under the Biden administration in 2024, but Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent revoked access soon after Trump was inaugurated.

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