(MENAFN) Democratic U.S. Senator Ron Wyden stated Tuesday that a bill he submitted to the Treasury Department, requesting it to provide records to Senate investigators concerning the late disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has gained the support of Epstein’s victims.

According to a statement from the Senate Committee on Finance, "Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today announced that a group of Epstein survivors have endorsed his Produce Epstein Treasury Records Act, which would compel Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to turn over Epstein-related records held by the Treasury Department to Senate investigators.

These records, which detail Epstein’s financial network and transactions, are not among those the Department of Justice is required to release as a result of legislation passed last month. Secretary Bessent has repeatedly refused to produce the records for further investigation."

The proposed legislation is designed to expose how Epstein and his collaborators hid the wealth that supported their sex trafficking operations.

Victims conveyed their backing for the bill through a letter sent by their legal representatives.

Highlighting the necessity of transparency, the survivors demanded that all government-held records be released.

Echoing these calls, they endorsed Senator Wyden’s bill and urged the Senate to approve the legislation.

Senator Wyden remarked that the records Secretary Bessent has withheld over the past year would reveal a comprehensive view of Epstein’s financial network, providing critical insight into who financed and facilitated the human and sex trafficking enterprise.

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