跨党派议员提出《爱泼斯坦华尔街记录法》 要求美联储等四家机构公开涉爱泼斯坦监管记录
华盛顿——参议院银行、住房和城市事务委员会首席民主党成员、马萨诸塞州民主党参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦与众议院监督委员会首席民主党成员、加利福尼亚州民主党众议员罗伯特·加西亚，10月15日在华盛顿领衔提出跨党派法案《爱泼斯坦华尔街记录法》（Epstein Wall Street Records Act）。法案目前仅为提出阶段，尚未通过。共同领衔者包括民主党众议员罗·卡纳、共和党众议员托马斯·马西、民主党众议员拉贾·克里希纳穆尔蒂，以及参议院常设调查小组委员会首席民主党成员理查德·布卢门撒尔和参议院财政委员会首席民主党成员罗恩·怀登。
参议院银行委员会的官方发布称，法案有三项核心要求。第一，要求美联储、联邦存款保险公司（FDIC）、财政部货币监理署（OCC）和证券交易委员会（SEC）四家联邦金融监管机构，向国会议员和公众公开与杰弗里·爱泼斯坦及其关联人员有关的监管记录。第二，要求上述监管机构调查与爱泼斯坦有关联的银行和高管，核查是否涉及银行、证券或非法融资方面的违规。第三，对协助爱泼斯坦金融运作的高管强制实施行业禁入和民事罚款，必要时将刑事违规线索移交司法部。
官方发布援引的背景包括：《纽约时报杂志》报道称摩根大通高管曾协助爱泼斯坦绕过旨在拦截可疑活动的内部控制；参议院财政委员会的一项调查称，有重要证据显示摩根大通、德意志银行和美国银行未能及时筛查和报告爱泼斯坦的可疑金融交易，违反联邦反洗钱法律。沃伦表示，她过去一年一直呼吁特朗普政府的金融监管机构调查这些银行及其高管，监管机构的回复甚至无法确认已经展开调查。她同时公布了巴克莱、高盛和摩根大通就其爱泼斯坦关联所作的回复，称内容不令人满意；其中高盛未回复她与克里希纳穆尔蒂的最新一封信。
沃伦在官方发布中说：「我过去一年一直呼吁唐纳德·特朗普的金融监管机构对可能助长了杰弗里·爱泼斯坦可怕罪行的大银行和高管展开调查。既然他们没有行动，国会就必须行动。」加西亚说，银行和金融机构为爱泼斯坦提供账户服务并帮助他转移资金，需要查明金融机构及其高管知道什么、是否遵守了相关法律，以及监管机构了解到了什么。马西说，该法案对银行监管机构所做的，正如《爱泼斯坦档案透明法》对司法部、联邦调查局和联邦检察官办公室档案所做的那样，要求公开相关文件。
Bipartisan Lawmakers Introduce Epstein Wall Street Records Act to Force Fed and Three Other Regulators to Release Epstein-Related Records
WASHINGTON — Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, and Representative Robert Garcia of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, led a bipartisan group of lawmakers in Washington on October 15 in introducing the Epstein Wall Street Records Act. The bill has only been introduced and has not passed. Co-leads include Representative Ro Khanna, Republican Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, Senator Richard Blumenthal, the ranking Democrat on the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and Senator Ron Wyden, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee.
According to the Senate Banking Committee's official release, the bill would do three things. First, it would require four federal financial regulators — the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Treasury Department's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) — to disclose supervisory records related to Jeffrey Epstein and his associates to members of Congress and the American people. Second, it would force the regulators to investigate Epstein-connected banks and executives for possible banking, securities, or illicit financing violations. Third, it would mandate industry bars and civil penalties for executives who assisted Epstein's financial operations, as well as potential referrals of criminal violations to the Department of Justice if necessary.
The release cited reporting and congressional work as background: The New York Times Magazine reported that executives at JPMorgan assisted Epstein in evading internal controls meant to intercept suspicious activity, and an investigation by the Senate Finance Committee found significant evidence that JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, and Bank of America violated federal anti-money laundering laws by failing to screen and report Epstein's suspicious financial transactions in a timely manner. Warren said she had spent the past year calling on the Trump administration's financial regulators to investigate the banks and executives, and that the regulators could not even confirm they had opened investigations. She also released responses from Barclays, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan Chase that she described as unsatisfactory, noting that Goldman Sachs failed to respond to her and Representative Krishnamoorthi's latest letter.
"I have spent the last year calling on Donald Trump's financial regulators to launch investigations into the big banks and executives who may have enabled Jeffrey Epstein's horrific crimes," Warren said in the release. "Since they have failed to act, Congress must." Garcia said banks and financial institutions serviced Epstein's accounts and helped him move money, and that lawmakers need to know what the institutions and their executives knew, whether they complied with relevant law, and what regulatory agencies learned. Massie said the bill does for bank regulators what the Epstein Files Transparency Act did for files held by the Justice Department, the FBI, and U.S. Attorney's Offices, by requiring the files on Epstein's money to be released.
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