A drawing from 2003 Epstein 50th Birthday Book, released by the House Oversight Committee, September 2025. Author of drawing not identified. This sketch vivifies how Epstein’s crowd all knew what he was doing.

On July 7, the Justice Department and FBI announced that billionaire Jeffrey “Epstein harmed over one thousand victims” – mostly young females, many of them underage. But those thousand victims vanished when President Trump announced the Epstein scandal was a “hoax” and a conspiracy by the Democratic Party.

Happily, neither Congress nor the media have kowtowed to Trump’s order to “move along, nothing to see here.” Trump’s credibility has already taken a wallop from his Epstein connection and coverup but far worse damage could be around the next bend.

Last week, the New York Times delivered the “full story of how America’s leading lender enabled the century’s most notorious sexual predator.” JPMorgan Bank continued assisting Epstein’s crime sprees long after he pled guilty and spent time in prison for soliciting a minor for prostitution. That sentence was part of a sweetheart deal that involved granting him and all his co-conspirators immunity for all federal charges.

Epstein’s case exemplifies how federal law doesn’t apply to the financial elite. In 1970, Congress enacted the Bank Secrecy Act, making it a crime for banks to keep secrets from the government. Banks were required to file a federal report for any cash transaction exceeding $10,000. The IRS has devastated many small businesses for inadvertently violating that law, as I detailed on Sunday in a New York Post piece.

Epstein was pulling out $800,000 in cash each year from the bank, “much of which was used to procure girls and young women,” the Times details. Shortly........

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