House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-KY) issued subpoenas to financial entities, seeking Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. The subpoenas were issued to JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank, as well as U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Gordon Rhea.
In a letter to JPMorgan Chase Bank’s General Counsel, Stacy Friedman, Comer wrote, “The Committee is aware that Mr. Epstein held accounts at JPMorgan Chase and that Mr. Epstein banked with JPMorgan Chase for around two decades until 2013 when JPMorgan Chase reportedly closed all of Mr. Epstein’s accounts.”
Similarly, in a letter to Deutsche Bank’s General Counsel Simone Kampfer, Comer wrote, “The Committee is aware that Mr. Epstein held accounts at Deutsche Bank, and that Mr. Epstein banked with Deutsche Bank from 2013 until potentially late 2018.”
Writing to Rhea, Comer declared that it is “imperative that Congress conduct oversight of the federal government’s enforcement of sex trafficking laws generally and, specifically, its handling of the investigation and prosecution of Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell.”
“The Committee may use the results of this investigation to inform legislative solutions to improve federal efforts to combat sex trafficking and reform the use of non-prosecution agreements and/or plea agreements in sex-crime investigations,” he wrote. “Additionally, the Committee is assessing possible legislation aimed at bolstering or otherwise amending laws aimed at ethics disclosures for elected officials.”
The letters follow President Trump writing on Truth Social last week that he would urge the Department of Justice to “investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions, to determine what was going on with them, and him.”
