GOP shuts down House Democrats' effort to subpoena banks handling Jeffrey Epstein money [View all]
Source: USA Today
Updated Sept. 17, 2025, 5:16 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON – House Republicans rejected an effort to subpoena four banks that reportedly flagged about $1.5 billion in suspicious financial transactions linked to disgraced financier and alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, made a motion during the group's first oversight hearing pressing FBI Director Kash Patel since he took over the bureau in February.
“These four banks have flagged to the government $1.5 billion in suspicious transactions related to the sex trafficking crimes and conspiracy of Epstein, [his associate Ghislaine] Maxwell and all of their collaborators,” Raskin said Sept. 17.
The Maryland lawmaker said he wanted the banks, and their CEOs, to turn over everything they had in connection with helping move money to or from Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 as he was awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. Specifically, Raskin pushed to subpoena JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank and Bank of New York Mellon (BNY) and their CEOs.
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