Overview
- DEA records show the case opened on Dec. 17, 2010, in New York and was still listed as judicially pending when the 69-page memo was drafted in 2015.
- Investigators mapped roughly $50 million in suspicious transfers among 15 people, with more than $5.6 million attributed to Epstein for suspected narcotics purchases.
- The memo links the wire activity to illicit drug and/or prostitution offenses in the U.S. Virgin Islands and New York City.
- The law-enforcement-sensitive document, heavily redacted, appears to be a DEA request to the OCDETF Fusion Center in Virginia for interagency intelligence.
- The file references related ICE and FBI inquiries dating back to 2006, and CBS News reports some 2018 prosecutors said they were unaware of the prior DEA probe.