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cross-posted from: https://endlesstalk.org/post/92157712

Hmm, suspicious wire transfers from Russian banks to Epstein. Trump was good buddies with Epstein.

Could Epstein have been Krasnov's handler?

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[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 100 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In an intriguing move, Wyden also presses DOJ to examine “hundreds of millions of dollars in wire transfers” discovered by his investigators that passed through “several now-sanctioned Russian banks.” The latter adds suggestively: “It appears that these wire transfers were correlated to the movement of women or girls around the world.”

I don't think Wyden would say that there is a correlation unless there was some evidence that strongly suggests that some of these transfers were payments to traffic women or girls to another country. This evidence needs to come out.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's the perfect kind of blackmail to have as well.

Although judging from the trump cults response to all this, people like Putin might find out that blackmail doesn't work against a cult leader. The cult will follow even if it was literally Satan killing their own family members and abusing children in front of them...

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maga is incredibly split over the Epstein walkback, so thankfully I don't think this holds.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Give them some time to come up with a bullshit excuse and then they'll reattach their mouth parts to his anus.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

For instance, Wyden suggests that DOJ prosecutors and FBI agents should “immediately investigate the evidence contained in the Treasury Department records on Epstein.” Wyden’s investigators know of these records because his office has been examining Epstein’s financial transactions for several years. In February 2024—when Democrats controlled the Senate—Wyden’s staff viewed in camera (that is, privately) thousands of pages of Treasury files documenting those transactions.

That review brought to Wyden’s attention the $1.5 billion in suspicious transactions flagged to Treasury by big banks, which is detailed in the Times report. Wyden’s letter fleshes out these revelations, noting starkly that Treasury’s “Epstein file contains significant information on the sources of funding behind Epstein’s sex trafficking activities.”

. . . In that regard, Wyden’s office also offers another revelation. In the Times piece, a Treasury spokesperson dismissed Wyden’s demand for release of these documents, insisting that when Joe Biden was president, Wyden “never asked” for this information, exposing the demand as “political theater.”

But Wyden’s office says this is false. The in-camera review by Wyden staffers of Treasury documents in February 2024 itself shows that Wyden sought this info from the Biden administration—and that he got access to it. 

What’s more, a Wyden aide tells me that in 2024, soon after Wyden’s staff viewed these Treasury documents in camera, Wyden actively moved to get the Senate to subpoena their release. Because Finance Committee rules require bipartisan support for subpoenas, Wyden sought the backing of several GOP senators on the committee, including now-chairman Mike Crapo and Marsha Blackburn. But none would support a subpoena, the aide says.

“Pedo rapist president A-OK” says repibliQan party

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 28 points 1 week ago

You LiBURls and your EPSTEIN Hoax! It's a HOAX! The Girls WANTED to have Sex with "Powerful" men like "me"! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION ON THIS MATTER!

[–] Bwoj@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I hope that Wyden has entrusted copies of this evidence to someone else that can do something in the event of his sudden suicide.

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 8 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately I doubt these are the kind of files you can just take home and keep in your bathroom without getting a felony, unless you know, youre like president or something and somehow above the law