参议员要求美国缉毒局提供爱泼斯坦涉毒调查的信息

一位参议院民主党领袖要求美国缉毒局提供一项长期且高度保密的调查信息，该调查涉及杰弗里·爱泼斯坦（Jeffrey Epstein）及14名涉嫌同谋者可能的毒品走私和可疑金融交易。哥伦比亚广播公司新闻频道周一首次报道了此案的存在，依据是从爱泼斯坦文件中发现的一份经过大量删节的69页缉毒局备忘录。

俄勒冈州参议员、参议院财政委员会首席成员罗恩·怀登在致美国缉毒局局长特伦斯·C·科尔的信中指出：“除了性交易外，爱泼斯坦及其同伙似乎还因其他重大罪行受到缉毒局的调查，包括非法毒品交易和洗钱。”

这份标注为"敏感但非机密"的美国缉毒局备忘录，隶属于司法部近期公布的逾300万页文件之列。

这份2015年的备忘录提及了美国缉毒局（DEA）有组织犯罪缉毒任务部队一项代号为"连锁反应"的调查。备忘录指出，该案件于2010年在纽约立案，当时处于"司法待决"状态，这意味着在备忘录起草的五年后，调查仍在进行中。

声明称，这些共谋者正因"与美国维尔京群岛和纽约市发生的非法毒品及/或卖淫活动相关的非法电汇交易"而接受调查。

参议员怀登指出："爱泼斯坦此前受到美国司法部有组织犯罪缉毒特别工作组（OCDETF）调查，这一事实表明已有充分证据显示，他涉嫌参与跨境毒品贩卖和性交易等重大犯罪活动。此事令人极度不安，并引发对缉毒局（DEA）调查处理方式的严重质疑。"

除爱泼斯坦外，司法部公布的调查版本中，其他涉案人员姓名均被涂黑。调查的诸多细节也经过编辑处理。

怀登参议员对"过度涂黑行为表示担忧，认为这严重违背了《爱泼斯坦文件透明法案》的初衷。该法案仅允许为保护受害者身份而进行信息遮蔽，而非为性犯罪团伙成员提供遮掩。

他还质疑为何爱泼斯坦（Epstein）及其他涉案人员未因毒品走私或金融犯罪被起诉，并怀疑"特朗普首届政府任内的美国缉毒局（DEA）和司法部（DOJ）是否曾为保护恋童癖者而终止这项调查"。

美国缉毒局（DEA）未就哥伦比亚广播公司新闻频道的置评请求作出回应。

怀登在信中要求美国缉毒局（DEA）于3月13日前提交一份未经编辑的完整备忘录副本，以供其委员会调查使用。他还要求该机构提供更多信息，说明爱泼斯坦及其他14人为何受到调查、案件何时结案，以及为何从未对他们提起联邦毒品走私或洗钱指控。

• 美国司法部

• 美国缉毒局

• 杰弗里·爱泼斯坦

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A leading Senate Democrat is calling on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to provide information on a long-running and long secret investigation into possible drug trafficking and suspicious financial transactions involving Jeffrey Epstein and 14 alleged co-conspirators. CBS News first reported Monday on the existence of the case, based on a heavily redacted 69-page DEA memo found in the Epstein files.

"In addition to sex trafficking, it appears that Epstein and his associates were under investigation by the DEA for other major crimes, including illicit drug trafficking and money laundering," Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, says in a letter to DEA Administrator Terrance C. Cole.

The DEA memo, marked "sensitive but unclassified," was among more than 3 million pages of documents recently released by the Justice Department.

The memo, from 2015, refers to a DEA Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces probe nicknamed "Chain Reaction." It noted that the case was opened in 2010 in New York and was "judicial pending," indicating that the investigation remained active at the time the memo was drafted 5 years later.

The co-conspirators, it said, were being investigated for "illegitimate wire transfers which are tied to illicit drug and/or prostitution activities occurring in the U.S. Virgin Islands and New York City,"

"The fact that Epstein was under investigation by the DOJ's OCDETF task force suggests that there was ample evidence indicating that Epstein was engaged in heavy drug trafficking and prostitution as part of cross-border criminal conspiracy," Wyden writes. "This is incredibly disturbing and raises serious questions as to how this investigation by the DEA was handled."

Other than Epstein's, the names of those targeted in the investigation are blacked out in the version released by the Justice Department. Many details about the investigation are also redacted.

Wyden expresses concern that the "excessive redactions go well beyond the intent of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which allows for redactions to protect the identity of victims, not members of a criminal sex trafficking organization."

He also questions why no charges were brought against Epstein or the others for drug trafficking or financial crimes, and whether "DEA and DOJ during the first Trump Administration moved to terminate this investigation in order to protect pedophiles."

DEA did not respond to CBS News' request for comment.

Wyden's letter asks the DEA to turn over a full, unredacted copy of the memo by March 13 for his committee's investigation . He also asks the agency to provide more information about why Epstein and the 14 others were under investigation, when the case concluded, and why no federal drug trafficking or money laundering charges were ever filed against them.

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