Senator accuses Blanche of blocking release of unredacted Epstein document

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Source: msn/Bloomberg

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(Bloomberg) -- Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is blocking the Drug Enforcement Administration from releasing an unredacted document from the Jeffrey Epstein files about an investigation involving drug trafficking and money laundering, according to a letter Democratic Senator Ron Wyden sent to Blanche on Tuesday.

The document, a 69-page target profile prepared for the DEA by the Department of Justice’s now-defunct Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces, was released in January along with millions of pages of other documents from the Epstein files. Although heavily redacted, it showed that the DEA and the Task Forces, known as OCDETF, investigated Epstein, 12 other people and two businesses in 2015.

The target profile said the “individuals are involved in illegitimate wire transfers which are tied to illicit drug and/or prostitution activities occurring in the U.S. Virgin Islands and New York City.” (OCDETF, a transnational crime fighting unit created in the Reagan era, was defunded and shuttered last year.)

Earlier this month, Bloomberg News reported that the DEA-OCDETF probe centered on the procurement of Eastern European prostitutes for high-profile clients and the illicit funding and distribution of so-called club drugs, including ecstasy, methamphetamines and ketamine, a drug known to facilitate date rape. The individuals, whose identities were redacted in the target profile, included Epstein’s brother, accountants, attorneys and European women who worked as his assistants or fashion models, according to the people familiar with the case.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/senator-accuses-blanche-of-blocking-release-of-unredacted-epstein-document/ar-AA1YUfpT

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Link to Sen. Wyden LETTER (PDF) - https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rQ_s7mC8lF2U/v0

Link to previously-released DOJ OCDETF FILE (PDF) - https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00173953.pdf

[Chasstev365]

1. Blanche and Bondi (among others) deserve long prison sentences.

[FiveFifteen]

2. Seriously, "date" rape?

Is Mr. Burns editing?

Fixed: “… ketamine, a drug known to facilitate rape.”