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tulipsandroses

(8,299 posts)
Thu Sep 11, 2025, 12:01 AM Sep 2025

SCOOP: Senate investigating Peter Thiel's money ties to Epstein

A bill introduced Wednesday by US Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) would widen a congressional investigation into the finances behind Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation to include American oligarch Peter Thiel, as well as known Epstein co-conspirators Nadia Marcinko and Jean-Luc Brunel.

The Produce Epstein Treasury Records Act (PETRA) would require the US Treasury to comply with the US Senate Finance Committee’s investigation into the money trail left by Epstein that connects the disgraced, deceased sex criminal to his clients and financial backers. Similar inquiries by the city of New York, the US Virgin Islands, and Epstein’s victims have led to expensive, hasty lawsuit settlement payouts from billionaires and financial institutions in order to prevent potentially incriminating evidence against them from going public.

The legislation will be introduced as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, an annual budget authorization currently working its way through Congress. Tying the legislation to a bill guaranteed a vote will force every senator to go on the record in their support of — or opposition to — accountability for Epstein’s co-conspirators and justice for his victims.

The Senate Finance Committee’s investigation, which began in 2022, now includes Thiel and his venture capital company Valar Ventures, which took a $40 million investment from Epstein. In total, the investigation now encompasses over 70 co-conspirators and entities “that transacted with Jeffrey Epstein.” The committee’s investigators obtained access to a small number of suspicious transaction reports from the US Treasury under the Biden administration in 2024, but Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent revoked access soon after Trump was inaugurated.

https://www.beltway.news/p/scoop-senate-investigating-peter

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SCOOP: Senate investigating Peter Thiel's money ties to Epstein (Original Post) tulipsandroses Sep 2025 OP
Time to shine some light on Thiel. yellow dahlia Sep 2025 #1
Peter Thiel spoke about associating with Epstein on Joe Rogan's show. RockRaven Sep 2025 #2
He doesn't care about getting caught newdeal2 Sep 2025 #6
Surely that money trail should be crystal. - What's with these THIEL muskRATs? UTUSN Sep 2025 #3
Peter Theil and Palantir were smack in the middle of the 2024 election Botany Sep 2025 #4
I'm at a loss to know why they're going after Thiel? ananda Sep 2025 #5

RockRaven

(19,755 posts)
2. Peter Thiel spoke about associating with Epstein on Joe Rogan's show.
Thu Sep 11, 2025, 12:10 AM
Sep 2025

When it came up, Rogan tried to give him some cover with something like "but that was before his first conviction, right" and Thiel just completely missed the lifeline and was like "no, no, it was after, in [whatever year]"

newdeal2

(5,614 posts)
6. He doesn't care about getting caught
Thu Sep 11, 2025, 06:37 PM
Sep 2025

He is above it all with his money and his defense company.

Botany

(77,864 posts)
4. Peter Theil and Palantir were smack in the middle of the 2024 election
Thu Sep 11, 2025, 02:21 PM
Sep 2025
https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-they-didnt-just-change-the


The Digital Janitor: also known as forensic sanitization, it was now being embedded into Eaton-managed hardware connected directly to voting systems. Palantir didn’t change the votes. It helped ensure you’d never prove it if someone else did.

ananda

(35,518 posts)
5. I'm at a loss to know why they're going after Thiel?
Thu Sep 11, 2025, 06:35 PM
Sep 2025

I'm sure there are other equally good scapegoats
who aren't Magat friendly.

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