# Mega Edition:   Why Won't Congress Chase The Epstein Money Trail?  (7/17/26)

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Published: 2026-07-17T06:20:02+00:00
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Congress has treated the Epstein money trail like a side corridor instead of the main road, and that is the core failure. There have been moves in the right direction — House Oversight sought suspicious activity reports from Treasury, Democrats pushed for subpoenas to major financial institutions, and Chairman James Comer later subpoenaed JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank for Epstein-related financial records — but the pace and posture have never matched the scale of what the money could reveal. Epstein’s operation was not just private jets, mansions, phone books, and social access; it was banking access, wire transfers, shell structures, settlement money, tax maneuvers, professional-services payments, suspicious activity flags, and elite institutional tolerance. JPMorgan already settled a survivor lawsuit for $290 million, Deutsche Bank was previously fined over its Epstein failures, and Leon Black’s payments to Epstein have remained one of the most glaring unresolved financial questions around the case. Yet Congress has too often preferred the safer theater of testimony, document dumps, political name-checking, and public outrage instead of building a relentless financial map of who paid Epstein, who was paid by Epstein, who moved the money, who ignored the red flags, and who benefited from the silence. That avoidance matters because the money trail is where the cover story starts to collapse. Flight logs tell you who was around him, calendars tell you who had access to him, but financial records tell you who enabled him, who profited from him, who kept him liquid, who looked the other way, and who may have had a direct stake in keeping the full story buried. Congress has shown bursts of interest, including pressure around Leon Black and subpoenas after reports that he resi…

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