Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden pressed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to release Epstein-related banking records covering at least $1.5 billion in suspicious transactions between 2003 and 2019. The Treasury files include suspicious activity reports detailing over 4,700 wire …
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A comprehensive Senate Finance Committee investigation led by Senator Ron Wyden uncovered massive financial evidence demonstrating Jeffrey Epstein’s complex international money laundering and trafficking operations. The Treasury Department’s analysis revealed over 4,725 wire transfers …
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After a record-breaking vote-a-rama with the most amendment votes in Senate history, the Senate passed Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” 51-50 with Vice President Vance casting the tie-breaking vote.
The Congressional Budget Office confirmed the bill cuts over $1 trillion from …
Treasury Department records obtained by Senator Ron Wyden reveal 4,725 wire transfers totaling $1.1 billion through Epstein’s account, with hundreds of millions flowing through sanctioned Russian banks. The transfers were correlated to the movement of women and girls from Russia, Belarus, …
Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden released findings on September 27, 2019 from an 18-month investigation into the National Rifle Association’s relationship with Russia and potential violations of U.S. tax and sanctions laws. The report revealed new evidence that the 2015 NRA …
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On January 24, 2018, the Senate confirmed Alex Azar as Secretary of Health and Human Services by a vote of 55-43, installing as the nation’s top healthcare regulator a pharmaceutical executive who had overseen dramatic insulin price increases during his decade at Eli Lilly. As President of …
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President Barack Obama signed the USA FREEDOM Act into law on June 2, 2015, representing the most significant reform of U.S. surveillance programs since the 1970s and a direct response to Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA mass surveillance. The Act prohibited bulk collection of all …
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Director of National Intelligence James Clapper sent a letter to Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein apologizing for his March 12, 2013 testimony to Congress, in which he denied that the NSA collected data on millions of Americans. In response to a direct question from Senator Ron …
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President George W. Bush authorized the NSA’s Stellar Wind warrantless domestic surveillance program, completely bypassing FISA court oversight in a fundamental alteration of constitutional checks and balances. The program allowed the NSA to collect phone metadata and internet communications …
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