Senate releases list of 58 suspected Epstein co-conspirators as pressure in Congress builds

Two new lists of Jeffrey Epstein’s potential clients and accomplices were announced on Wednesday: one from an ongoing congressional investigation, and another compiled by the deceased sex trafficker’s victims.

The independent announcements came the morning after the Trump administration’s most recent attempt to avoid transparency regarding its decision to close the investigation into Epstein by re-releasing — for the third time — a redacted, sanitized version of the Epstein files with almost no new information.

The first list of potential co-conspirators, compiled by the US Senate Finance Committee, contains 58 individuals and entities with known financial ties to Epstein. The committee requested records of suspicious transactions between those listed and Epstein, Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden wrote in his letter to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, to prove financial ties between any co-conspirators, and so that the government could identify the financial institutions that reported suspicious activity but did not act on it, and hold them accountable.

“The Treasury records shine a light on how high-profile individuals paid Epstein staggering sums of money, which was then used to move women around the world or engage in dubious transactions indicative of money laundering. They also show how US financial institutions turned a blind eye to the financing of Epstein’s criminal network, simply waiving the payments through without properly reporting them to U.S. authorities in a timely fashion, as required by law.”

A number of those listed have already paid over $1 billion in lawsuit settlements to prevent cases regarding their involvement with Epstein from going to trial, including disgraced Wall Street billionaire Leon Black, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan Chase. Others under investigation include Victoria’s Secret founder Les Wexler — along with his family, companies, and his children’s trust fund — Trump impeachment lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Wells Fargo, Johnson & Johnson, and a number of trusts and shell corporations created by Epstein.

So far, the Treasury has been unwilling to cooperate with Wyden, instead laying blame on former President Joe Biden, who did grant the Finance Committee access to certain documents in 2024. Bessent has even gone as far as to lob thinly veiled threats at Wyden if he continues his inquiry. During an event held by the Young America’s Foundation in August, Bessent simultaneously claimed that the Treasury had no power to investigate financial crimes and threatened to investigate Wyden’s finances, claiming without evidence that the senator engaged in insider trading.

“Any law enforcement person who wants to come and see them, we hold them. Our job — we are not detectives. We collect them. It’s just like the — when we make payments, the Treasury, the Commerce Department, tells us to make a payment. We are a paymaster,” Bessent stammered. “Sen. Wyden’s rich. Sen. Wyden, somehow his stock trading account — Sen. Wyden trades better than Paul Pelosi. He was up 125% and then 75%. So, I would — I’m not going to disclose anything because I’ve never looked, but I would guess there’s some stories on Sen. Wyden.”

The US House Committee on Oversight made a similar request to the Treasury in late August, asking Bessent to hand over all relevant suspicious activity reports no later than Sept. 15. The request is part of the Committee’s separate investigation into the government’s handling of Epstein’s case. Its investigation goes beyond finances, however, and seeks to uncover other evidence tying potential accomplices to Epstein’s sex trafficking operation.

A group of Epstein’s victims joined a press conference on Wednesday held by committee leaders Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA). Many shared their painful experiences, expressed disgust at the Trump administration’s decision to transfer Epstein accomplice Ghislane Maxwell to a resort-like prison facility, and the government’s repeated failure to hold those connected to Epstein accountable.

Lisa Phillips, a fashion model who had been abused by Epstein and his associates since she was a teenager, gave the Trump administration an ultimatum: release the names of Epstein’s accomplices, or she and his other victims would.

“We will confidentially compile the names we all know are regularly in the Epstein world,” said Phillips. “Transparency is justice. Release the files, end the secrecy, and stand with us in declaring that no one — no billionaires, no politicians, no world leaders — is above the law.”

*Correction: A previous version of this story had the incorrect spelling of Les Wexler’s name.

This post first appeared in Below The Beltway, a COURIER Substack by Camaron Stevenson.

US Representative Ro Khanna speaks during the press conference on the Epstein Files Transparency Act with the Epstein abuse survivors at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on November 18, 2025. (Photo by Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)