A bill introduced by Sen. Wyden would require the US Treasury to hand over financial records of Thiel and over 70 other potential co-conspirators under investigation.

"The basic question here is whether a bunch of rich pedophiles and Epstein accomplices are going to face any consequences for their crimes, and Scott Bessent is doing his best to make sure they won’t,” Wyden said in a statement. “From the beginning, my view has been that following the money is the key to identifying Epstein’s clients as well as the henchmen and banks that enabled his sex trafficking network. It’s past time for Bessent to quit running interference for pedophiles and give us the Epstein files he’s sitting on.”

[Peter] Thiel, the Silicon Valley billionaire who believes democracy is a failed experiment, has become inexorably tied to the Trump administration through his surveillance company, Palantir, which has been awarded billions in government contracts this year. This includes $10 billion from the US Army to integrate AI into its processes and $30 million from Immigration and Customs Enforcement to allow the government to track and intimidate immigrants.