Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden on Wednesday put scumbag Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on the spot with a sternly-worded letter, writing “It has come to my attention that you are preventing the Drug Enforcement Administration (‘DEA’) from producing an unredacted copy of a report I requested regarding drug trafficking and money laundering by Jeffrey Epstein and several associates. By withholding this unclassified document from the US Congress, you are covering up for pedophiles and obstructing my investigation into the financing of Epstein’s criminal sex trafficking organization. For years now, I have been conducting an investigation into the so-called ‘tax planning’ conducted by Epstein to finance his criminal sex trafficking organization.”

“As part of this investigation, I am following the money and examining the extent to which Epstein was able to utilize the US financial system to make thousands of suspicious wire transfers and cash withdrawals for the apparent purpose of trafficking women and girls. As you are aware, on February 25th I requested an unredacted copy of a memorandum prepared in 2015 by the Director of the DEA’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) related to Operation ‘Chain Reaction.’ Operation ‘Chain Reaction’ was a major investigation by the DEA’s elite OCDETF task force into drug trafficking, prostitution, and money laundering by Epstein’s criminal organization.”