Ex-Trump official in hot water as new Epstein probe exposes trove of incriminating emails [View all]
Source: Raw Story
October 31, 2025 11:28AM ET
Federal prosecutors expanded their investigation of Jeffrey Epstein's alleged sex trafficking network to examine whether the disgraced financier was engaged in money laundering, according to a new review of his personal email account.
Bloomberg reviewed documents and emails from Epstein’s personal Yahoo account that show lead prosecutor Marie Villafaña, then assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, requested grand jury subpoenas in 2007 for "every financial transaction" he had engaged in for the previous four years. Sources say prosecutors also subpoenaed major banks for records about his accounts and financial activity.
"Epstein grew furious when he learned that prosecutors had broadened their investigation’s scope, the emails show," Bloomberg reported. "His high-powered team of lawyers, including Gerald Lefcourt, Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz, former Bush administration official Jay Lefkowitz and former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, argued that Villafaña was pursuing baseless claims to pressure their client into a plea deal. They launched an aggressive campaign to discredit her attempts to follow the money and pressured her higher-ups to remove her and others from the case — or scuttle the case entirely."
The money laundering probe raises new questions about congressional testimony last month from Alex Acosta, the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida who ultimately signed off on Epstein's plea deal.
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Link to referenced Bloomberg article - https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-jeffrey-epstein-emails-money-laundering-charges/
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