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File 168 - Fourteen Names in the DEA Epstein File. Zero Charges. The Case Died in 2023.
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OCDETF memo named 14 co-subjects in Epstein's drug network. USVI and NYC jurisdictions. Club drugs: ketamine, ecstasy, methamphetamine. $50M in suspicious wire transfers.
Case ran 13 years. Closed June 16, 2023. Zero charges. Why.
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Welcome back to the Epstein Files. Last time we walked through Todd Blanche personally blocking the unredacted DEA memo from reaching the Senate, and Senator Wyden calling it concealment. Today, we're following what was inside that memo. The OCD ETF investigation named 14 individuals and entities tied to Jeffrey Epstein's drug and prostitution network. The investigation ran for 13 years. It produced zero charges. The case was closed on June 16, 2023. As always, every document and source we reference is available at the Neural Broadcast Network website. So the DEA's operation chain reaction spanned two jurisdictions, the U.S. Virgin Islands and New York City. It documented club drugs, ketamine, ecstasy, methamphetamine. It traced$50 million in suspicious wire transfers, 14 co-subjects name, not one indicted.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that um that zero charge outcome, that is the core anomaly we are processing today. The foundation for all of this is the May 18, 2015 OCDE TIFF memo. And when you analyze that document, it establishes a multi-agency organized crime investigation that was running completely parallel to everything the public understood about Jeffrey Epstein.
SPEAKER_00The government was officially investigating his network as a drug trafficking enterprise.
SPEAKER_01Exactly. To understand how 14 targets avoid indictment for over a decade, you uh you first have to understand the specific legal machinery the federal government deployed against them.
SPEAKER_00We need to define that machinery clearly. So, oh, CDTIF stands for the Organized Crime Drug Enfracement Task Forces. Right. If you are unfamiliar with federal law enforcement frameworks, you might assume this is just a standard drug squad or maybe a preliminary inquiry run by a single local field office. It is not. No, it is not. An OCD TIFF designation is reserved exclusively for the absolute highest level international and interstate drug trafficking operations. You do not get this designation for low-level distribution.
SPEAKER_01Aaron Powell And it is a multi-agency operation. It essentially forces the DEA, the FBI, IRS criminal investigation, and Homeland Security Investigations to pool their resources.
SPEAKER_00Right. They have to work together. Aaron Powell Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And that designation is not automatically granted just because a field agent requests it. It requires formal approval from the OCDE TIFF Advisory Council. Trevor Burrus, Jr.
SPEAKER_00Which consists of senior federal agency officials in Washington.
SPEAKER_01Exactly. They audit the preliminary intelligence, they verify the scope of the criminal enterprise, and only then do they authorize the funding and the task force designation.
SPEAKER_00So by naming Jeffrey Epstein and 14 co-subjects under Operation Shane Reaction, the government officially categorized this network as a Tier 1 organized crime syndicate.
SPEAKER_01That brings us directly to the terminology utilized in the May 18th, 2015 OCD TIFF memo. The investigation documented exactly 14 co-subjects.
SPEAKER_00And we have to clarify what co-subject means in this specific federal context, because it is a highly specific legal categorization.
SPEAKER_01Right. It is not a witness.
SPEAKER_00No, it is not a witness, and it is not a peripheral person of interest who simply appeared in a suspect's phone records or, you know, happened to be a passenger on a flight.
SPEAKER_01That is exactly right. In this context, earning the designation of a co-subject means that investigators across these multiple federal agencies gathered sufficient, actionable, and documented evidence against each of these 14 targets.
SPEAKER_00To warrant their formal inclusion in the investigation.
SPEAKER_01Yes. The task force had to demonstrate to the Advisory Council that these 14 targets were actively participating in the criminal enterprise.
SPEAKER_00The redacted memo also indicates that these 14 targets include both individuals and entities. If you look at standard criminal investigations, the targets are usually just people. But in complex trafficking audits, entities are equally critical. We need to break down why the OCE TIFF framework targets corporate structures alongside human operators.
SPEAKER_01The distinction between individual and entity co-subjects is basically how forensic auditors map organized crime. The individual co-subjects, the human operators, they negotiate the supply of the narcotics.
SPEAKER_00Right. They manage the distribution logistics.
SPEAKER_01And they direct the financing of the supply chain. The entity co-subjects are the corporate structures.
SPEAKER_00The U.S. Virgin Islanders shell companies, offshore holding firms.
SPEAKER_01Specialized trusts. Yeah. Human operators use these entities to process illicit payments or hold physical assets like aircraft and real estate.
SPEAKER_00It obscures the money trail from regulator.
SPEAKER_01Exactly. It is a shield.
SPEAKER_00We know from the documentation that Epstein's infrastructure included dozens of entities registered in the U.S. Virgin Islands, New York, New Mexico, and various offshore jurisdictions. The OCDE TIFF investigation documented that specific entities within that massive financial network were utilized precisely to facilitate the drug trafficking operation.
SPEAKER_01Aaron Powell They functioned as the financial cloaking device for the narcotics revenue. I mean, if you want to move$50 million, which the memo documents, you do not move it under your own name.
SPEAKER_00Right, you route it through a USVI entity.
SPEAKER_01Which then transfers it to a Delaware LLC, which then wires it to a New York trust. The OCE TIFF memo confirms the task force identified the specific entities executing those transfers.
SPEAKER_00That geographic footprint is what further reinforces the organized crime designation. The investigation documented two primary jurisdictions for Operation Chain Reaction. The first is the U.S. Virgin Islands.
SPEAKER_01Where Epstein's primary residence was located, the compound on Little St. James.
SPEAKER_00Federal investigators examined that compound, which included multiple residential structures and extensive staff quarters across multiple separate probes. But if you look at the USVI on a map, you understand why a drug task force was focused there.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, the U.S. Virgin Islands is a highly significant jurisdiction for drug trafficking.
SPEAKER_00It sits directly in the Caribbean transit zone, offering immediate proximity to major South American countries.
SPEAKER_01While serving as a direct gateway into the United States mainland. And because it is a U.S. territory, once illicit cargo lands in the US VI, moving it to Florida or New York is considered domestic transport.
SPEAKER_00Which bypasses the most rigorous customs inspections. But wait, if OCE TIFF is strictly top-tier organized crime requiring continuous federal funding and oversight, does that mean local Virgin Island police would not even know this federal net was closing in? If the DEA and FBI are running Operation Chain Reaction, they are operating at a level far above local port authorities.
SPEAKER_01They are completely bypassing local authorities. The May 18th, 2015 OCDE TIFF memo documents a purely federal operation.
SPEAKER_00The task force understood that local authorities in the U.S. Virgin Islands were either compromised by Epstein's political influence, or they simply lacked the technical capacity to monitor a multinational supply chain.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, Epstein maintained a constant presence there, employed local staff, and managed financial operations through U.S. VI registered entities. This placed his entire infrastructure precisely at the intersection of major maritime and aviation drug transit pathways.
SPEAKER_00The second geographic node documented in the memo is New York City, specifically the Upper East Side Townhouse located at 9 East 71st Street.
SPEAKER_01Epstein operated a massive logistical hub from that New York residence. It involved constant social events, extremely complex financial transactions managed from private offices, and a broad network of associates.
SPEAKER_00The documentation shows this New York hub overlapped with both his sex trafficking operation and the drug distribution activities.
SPEAKER_01The convergence of these two specific nodes, the U.S. Virgin Islands and New York City, is vital forensic evidence. It proves to the OCDE TIFF Advisory Council that this was not a localized operation.
SPEAKER_00It was not a sideline habit restricted to a private island.
SPEAKER_01Right. It was an organized interstate trafficking network. The enterprise connected a highly protected Caribbean transit zone directly to one of the largest, most lucrative drug distribution markets in the United States.
SPEAKER_00The redactions in the May 18th, 2015 OCD TIFF memo suppressed the identities of the 14 co-subjects operating between those two nodes. And Todd Blanche is personally enforcing those redactions. These suppressed names are the single most consequential pieces of information currently withheld from the public and from Congress. These are not peripheral figures, they are targets the federal government actively investigated for 13 years.
SPEAKER_01The core contradiction is right there in the documentation. The OCDE TIFF designation requires documented, actionable evidence of involvement in criminal activity just to initiate the case.
SPEAKER_00So, how do 14 targets remain on an active federal organized crime list for 13 years without triggering a single indictment?
SPEAKER_01That does not add up.
SPEAKER_00No, it does not. The redactions hide the nature of these co-subjects. We do not know if they are financial industry figures who manage the money, political operators who shielded the transit zones, or other high exposure targets who handled the logistics for a network generating$50 million in suspicious wire transfers.
SPEAKER_01That is the central anomaly of Operation Chain Reaction. The federal government does not allocate 13 years of multi-agency resources, surveillance teams, and forensic accountants to investigate 14 random associates.
SPEAKER_00The question you have to focus on is not whether these 14 subjects were connected to Epstein's drug network. The government's own documentation confirms they were.
SPEAKER_01Right. The OCDE TIFF framework demands substantial, continuous proof to maintain that co-subject status year after year.
SPEAKER_00The anomaly is the zero charge outcome after more than a decade of active, coordinated federal surveillance. To understand why the Department of Justice never materialized those charges, we have to look past the geographic footprint and examine the specific substances the network was moving.
SPEAKER_01The May 18th, 2015 OCE TIFF memo documents Epstein's connection to the distribution of three specific controlled substances: ketamine, ecstasy, and methamphetamine.
SPEAKER_00Each of these drugs carries a highly distinct distribution profile and legal classification. This was not a monolithic drug operation, it was diversified.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. We need to consider the ketamine overlap first. Ketamine is classified as a Schedule III controlled substance.
SPEAKER_00It has legal applications as a medical and veterinary anesthetic, but it is strictly illegal for recreational distribution outside of licensed medical facilities.
SPEAKER_01And in the context of this investigation, ketamine is a dissociative drug. It impairs motor control. It severely alters consciousness and memory formation.
SPEAKER_00It is a documented facilitation drug utilized heavily in sexual assaults.
SPEAKER_01The documentation of ketamine in this multi-agency investigation is a forensic linchpin. It directly connects the drug trafficking operation to the sexual abuse enterprise documented in the Gislaine Maxwell trial.
SPEAKER_00If the individuals and entities named in the OCDE TIFF memo were distributing ketamine through the exact same logistical network that procured and trafficked victims, it means the drug trafficking and the sex trafficking were not separate parallel enterprises.
SPEAKER_01They were fully integrated operations. The ketamine was a functional tool. It was required to facilitate the abuses documented in the Southern District of New York prosecutions.
SPEAKER_00Meaning the drug supply chain was an essential operational component of the sex trafficking logistics. The planes bringing victims to the US VI or New York were serviced by the same network supplying the chemical means to assault them.
SPEAKER_01But the investigation did not stop at facilitation drugs. The task force also targeted MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy, and methamphetamine.
SPEAKER_00These are Schedule 1 and Schedule II controlled substances, respectively.
SPEAKER_01Right. Their inclusion in the May 18, 2015 OCDE TIFF memo indicates the drug operation extended far beyond merely supplying facilitation drugs for Epstein's immediate personal orbit.
SPEAKER_00The distribution of methamphetamine in the U.S. Virgin Islands in New York requires highly organized commercial supply chains. You do not move methamphetamine across maritime borders by accident.
SPEAKER_01No, it requires centralized distribution points and an established sales infrastructure. Methamphetamine distribution in these specific jurisdictions is not a personal habit.
SPEAKER_00It requires chemical sourcing, transportation logistics, and a revenue collection system that functions on a purely industrial scale.
SPEAKER_01The OCEE TIFF investigation documented a commercial enterprise. The combination of medical-grade facilitation drugs like ketamine with high-volume street stimulants like methamphetamine in ecstasy means this network was generating profit.
SPEAKER_00It was a profit-generating or influence-generating supply chain.
SPEAKER_01Exactly. A multi-jurisdictional operation moving schedule of the one and two substances requires a massive operational footprint. You need pilots, maritime operators, secure storage facilities, and financial personnel to launder the proceeds.
SPEAKER_00When you factor in the geography, the transit pathways between the Caribbean and New York, and the specific combinations of narcotics, the level of logistical coordination required places this network squarely in the realm of high-tier organized crime.
SPEAKER_01This is precisely why the DEA utilized the OCE TIFF framework. Standard local law enforcement simply does not have the jurisdiction or the forensic capability to dismantle a supply chain of that magnitude.
SPEAKER_00We have to view this entire operation through the lens of infrastructure convergence. The public generally views the sex trafficking case prosecuted in New York and this newly revealed drug distribution network as two entirely separate files.
SPEAKER_01But the documented reality is that Epstein utilized a singular, integrated logistical infrastructure.
SPEAKER_00Think about the physical assets involved. The private aircraft, the isolated island compounds, the heavily staffed urban residences. The public record focuses on how the planes moved people.
SPEAKER_01But the documentation from Operation Chain Reaction shows the federal government investigated those exact same planes and those exact same properties for moving Schedule I and II controlled substances. Yeah, the aircraft could transport the substances from the mainland to the U.S. Virgin Islands or vice versa without standard commercial screening.
SPEAKER_00The compound at Little St. James could serve as a highly secure distribution hub in the Caribbean transit zone, physically shielded from local law enforcement by private security.
SPEAKER_01And the urban residences, like the townhouse at 9 East 71st Street, could serve as distribution or coordination points right in the middle of New York City.
SPEAKER_00You can move physical drugs all day on private planes, but eventually the bill comes due. That revenue has to enter the banking system without setting off federal alarms. Right. This forces us to transition from the physical movement of the drugs to the digital movement of the proceeds. The financial infrastructure, the dozens of shell companies and offshore accounts process the revenue for both the sex trafficking and drug operations simultaneously.
SPEAKER_01The federal investigators tracking this network clearly recognize this financial convergence. The May 18, 2015 OCDE TIFF memo documents$50 million in suspicious wire transfers connected directly to the drug trafficking investigation.
SPEAKER_00In federal organized crime investigations,$50 million does not move unnoticed. Wire transfers are flagged as suspicious based on rigid algorithmic criteria evaluated by financial compliance officers at major banks and by federal auditors.
SPEAKER_01We need to explain exactly how that digital tracking works. The primary mechanism for flagging these transactions involves suspicious activity reports or SARS.
SPEAKER_00These are mandatory filings under the Bank Secrecy Act.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. When a bank files a SAR, it is processed directly into FinCEN databases, which are monitored by the Treasury Department and accessible to OCTD investigators.
SPEAKER_00Federal investigator and bank compliance departments flag transfers if they meet specific threat profiles. They flag them if the transfers lack a clear, legitimate business purpose.
SPEAKER_01They flag them if the funds are routed through high-risk offshore jurisdictions known for money laundering, such as Cyprus or specific Caribbean banking centers.
SPEAKER_00And crucially, they flag them if they involve structuring. Consider the mechanics of structuring, because it is how organized crime tries to evade the Bank Secrecy Act.
SPEAKER_01If you want to move$50 million to the commercial banking system without triggering an immediate automatic federal audit, you cannot send it in one massive lump sum.
SPEAKER_00Think of it as having a massive boulder of illicit cash. If you drop that boulder into the banking system, it creates a massive splash. The compliance officers notice immediately.
SPEAKER_01So financial operators break that boulder down into thousands of tiny pebbles. They move transfers of$8,000 or$9,500.
SPEAKER_00Purposefully keeping each individual transaction just under the$10,000 mandatory reporting threshold.
SPEAKER_01But the algorithms used by FinCEN are designed to detect that exact pattern. The$50 million cited in the OCDE TIFF memo represents transfers that met one or more of these strict criteria linking the movement of capital to the documented narcotics network.
SPEAKER_00The May 18th, 2015 OCDE TIFF memo contains the specific routing data for this$50 million, but that routing data is completely redacted.
SPEAKER_01The redactions hide which specific banks processed the transfers. They hide which accounts sent and received the funds.
SPEAKER_00And they hide which entity co-subjects controlled those accounts. This routing data is the financial DNA of the operation, and Todd Blanche is keeping it suppressed.
SPEAKER_01We do have crucial cross-reference material, though. We have Senator WHY Den's documentation from his separate four-year investigation into the financial networks.
SPEAKER_00WHY Den's investigation found$1.1 billion routed through five specific financial institutions: JP Morgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, Bank of America, BNY Mellon, and Charles Schwab.
SPEAKER_01By DEA standards, a$50 million wire transfer pattern directly associated with narcotics places this network at the absolute highest tier of domestic drug trafficking organizations.
SPEAKER_00Mid-level regional trafficking organizations typically generate wire activity in the single-digit millions.$50 million in strictly suspicious wire activity represents an immense industrial volume of underlying criminal commerce.
SPEAKER_01The redacted routing numbers in the OCE TIFF memo are the master key. If those redacted numbers map directly to the same five banks identified in the WHY DEN investigation, it exposes an institutional failure of staggering proportions.
SPEAKER_00That does not add up.$50 million moving through the commercial wire transfer system is inherently traceable. It's permanently recorded by FinCEN, and it is monitored by the compliance departments of both the sending and receiving institutions. Right. We have WHY DEN's documentation of five specific banks processing Epstein's sex trafficking funds. If the redacted routing numbers in the OCDTF memo map to those exact same five banks, did those institutions process drug trafficking proceeds without filing timely suspicious activity reports?
SPEAKER_01We are looking at a fundamental compliance trap explicitly documented in the records. There are only two possibilities here.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_01Either the financial institutions correctly filed the required suspicious activity reports on this,$50 million, and the Department of Justice ignored those filings for 13 years.
SPEAKER_00Or the banks failed to file the reports entirely, meaning the compliance failure extends directly into a multinational drug operation.
SPEAKER_01Both of those outcomes document severe systemic institutional failure. The money moved. The system recorded the routing data. The federal government tracked it.
SPEAKER_00And yet, 14 targets face zero accountability. The redactions enforced by Todd Blanche currently prevent Congress and the public from determining whether the banks were complicit in facilitating the transfers or whether the Justice Department intentionally buried actionable financial intelligence.
SPEAKER_01This brings us to the timeline of the investigation, which is where the systemic failure becomes undeniable. You cannot evaluate the lack of charges without evaluating how long the government held the evidence.
SPEAKER_00The documentation shows that Operation Chain Reaction formally opened on December 17th, 2010, and the case was closed on June 16, 2023.
SPEAKER_01That is a span of 12 years and six months. It spanned the entirety of the Obama administration, the Trump administration, and well into the Biden administration.
SPEAKER_00It remained active through multiple changes in Department of Justice leadership and survived multiple transitions of DEA administrators. You do not keep a multi-agency task force open for over a decade by accident.
SPEAKER_01The opening date of December 17, 2010 provides critical context. This was approximately three years after the 2007 non-prosecution agreement executed in Florida.
SPEAKER_00Which resolved Epstein's initial sex trafficking investigation without federal charges. By late 2010, Epstein had completed his state sentence and was a registered sex offender living openly between New York and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
SPEAKER_01The initiation of the OCDE TIFF case at that specific time indicates that federal investigators recognized his ongoing criminal enterprise. They knew the network was still highly active.
SPEAKER_00But they utilized the drug trafficking lens because the non-prosecution agreement had temporarily foreclosed their ability to prosecute the sex trafficking network. The drug task force was the federal government's alternative mechanism to dismantle the infrastructure.
SPEAKER_01And the active period of this investigation is staggering. It remained open through Epstein's July 2019 federal arrest on sex trafficking charges in the Southern District of New York.
SPEAKER_00It remained open after his August 2019 death in federal custody.
SPEAKER_01It ran concurrently with the entire Gislaine Maxwell prosecution, continuing straight through her trial and her conviction in December 2021.
SPEAKER_00The federal government maintained this massive drug trafficking probe against the 14 co subjects. Long after the primary figure was deceased and his chief associate was imprisoned.
SPEAKER_01This proves the task force was not solely focused on Epstein. They were tracking the remaining infrastructure. They were tracking the 14 co-subjects who continued to manage the entities and the logistics.
SPEAKER_00The closing date of June 16, 2023, under Attorney General Merrick Garland is equally significant.
SPEAKER_01This closure occurred 18 months after Maxwell's conviction. More crucially, it occurred precisely two and a half years before transparency legislation forced the mandatory disclosure of these records to the public.
SPEAKER_00This is inconsistent. They closed an active OCDE TIFF case just prior to the law requiring public disclosure. Closing the case exactly when they did eliminated the highly problematic complication of having an active organized crime investigation exposed by the incoming release.
SPEAKER_01If the case had remained open, the Department of Justice would have been forced to explain to Congress why an active, heavily funded organized crime task force was still tracking 14 unindicted co-subjects without making a single arrest.
SPEAKER_00The institutional mechanics of an OCE TIFF investigation make this timeline impossible to view as an administrative accident or a filing error.
SPEAKER_01We have to evaluate how these cases are maintained. These cases require annual renewals. A field agent cannot just leave a file open on their desk for 13 years.
SPEAKER_00The task force requires senior oversight.
SPEAKER_01The investigation consumed immense federal resources for over a decade. Producing zero charges after 13 years is either an admission of a profoundly unjustified investigation, which violates every internal auditing standard of the DOJ, or it is a deliberate, orchestrated refusal to prosecute actionable evidence against the 14 subjects.
SPEAKER_00We have to synthesize the entire scope of Operation Chain reaction to understand why a multi-agency investigation into a$50 million network died quietly. This theory suggests that despite tracking$50 million in suspicious wires and identifying 14 co-subjects, the agents simply could not gather enough evidence to meet the standard for an indictment.
SPEAKER_01But claiming evidentiary failure completely defies the resource allocation of an OCDE TIFF case. You do not renew a case annually for a decade across multiple federal agencies if the evidence is perpetually insufficient.
SPEAKER_00The advisory council would have shut down the funding in year two or three. The fact that it survived for 13 years proves the task force was continually generating actionable intelligence.
SPEAKER_01The second explanation is resource allocation. This is the theory that the Department of Justice simply prioritize the high-profile sex trafficking case against Gislaine Maxwell, and they let the drug distribution case fade out because they lacked the personnel to pursue both.
SPEAKER_00The timeline entirely dismantles that theory. As we established, this drug case ran for 18 full months after Maxwell's conviction. If it was merely deprioritized in favor of the Maxwell trial, the DOJ would have closed the OCDE TIFF file in 2019 or 2020.
SPEAKER_01They kept it active long after the Maxwell prosecution consumed its resources. The third explanation is political exposure.
SPEAKER_00This theory posits that prosecuting the 14 co-subjects would publicly expose powerful political figures, elite financial executives, or international intelligence assets who facilitated the logistical and financial infrastructure of the drug network.
SPEAKER_01Based on the redactions enforced by Todd Blanche, this is the most logically consistent explanation. The redactions are specifically designed to protect identities.
SPEAKER_00If the 14 co-subjects were low-level street dealers, their names would not be suppressed by the highest levels of the current administration. The suppression indicates massive institutional exposure.
SPEAKER_01The fourth explanation is institutional inertia. This suggests the case essentially ran on autopilot, buried in the bureaucracy, until someone at the DOJ finally noticed it and closed it to avoid the incoming scrutiny from the mandatory disclosures.
SPEAKER_00But even institutional inertia requires a human operator to eventually close the file. Someone signed the paperwork on June 16, 2023. The failure to prosecute connects directly back to Todd Blanche's current actions.
SPEAKER_01The redacted names, the specific financial institutions, and the$50 million in routing data explain the exact gap between a 13-year multi-agency investigation and zero indictments.
SPEAKER_00He is enforcing the redactions that keep that gap obscured from the public and from congressional oversight.
SPEAKER_01When you evaluate the documentation in its entirety, the conclusion is unavoidable. The Department of Justice clearly wants this file buried permanently.
SPEAKER_00We have a documented multi-jurisdictional network moving Schedule 1, 2, and 3 substances. It is supported by$50 million in flagged structured wire transfers.
SPEAKER_01The DOJ investigated it for 13 years and then closed the file without a single press release, without a single indictment, and without a single explanation.
SPEAKER_00The only reason you know this$50 million drug network even existed is because of the mandatory disclosures forced by transparency legislation.
SPEAKER_01Every single day, the May 18th, 2015 OCDE TIFF memo remains redacted. The individuals and entities who manage the supply chains, routed the illicit payments, and facilitated the global logistics are protected by the exact same legal apparatus that originally investigated them.
SPEAKER_00The final accounting documented in the records is clear. Three controlled substances, two transit jurisdictions,$50 million in flagged wire transfers, 14 multiagency targets, 13 years of active federal investigation, zero charges.
SPEAKER_01And absolutely zero accountability for the co subjects.
SPEAKER_00Next time on the Epskin files. The unit that ran that investigation no longer exists. Trump shut it down in May 2025.