(Washington) The US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) investigated Jeffrey Epstein and 14 other people for at least five years for suspicious money transfers possibly linked to drug trafficking, according to a document from the voluminous Epstein file spotted Monday evening by CBS News.
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“According to a DEA report, the individuals mentioned are involved in illegal fund transfers related to illicit drug trafficking and/or prostitution activities taking place in the U.S. Virgin Islands and New York,” the 69-page document dated May 18, 2015, states.
The note is marked “for law enforcement use only” and names other than that of Jeffrey Epstein are redacted as are details of the police investigation.
For the DEA to open an investigation, there would have to be a link to drug trafficking, a law enforcement source told CBS News.
The document lists a DEA case number and indicates that the case was opened on December 17, 2010 in New York. He specifies that the procedure is “ongoing”, which means that the investigation was still active at the time of writing the note, four and a half years later.
Jeffrey Epstein was finally arrested and charged in July 2019 for sexual exploitation of minors and criminal conspiracy.
Already accused more than ten years earlier in Florida of using the services of underage prostitutes, Mr. Epstein was sentenced in 2008 to a modified prison sentence of 13 months, according to a secret agreement made with a prosecutor allowing him to escape federal prosecution.
Jeffrey Epstein was found hanging in his cell on August 10, 2019, while awaiting trial. The autopsy ruled it suicide.
