A new report by Senate Democrats claims that Sen. Marsha Blackburn refused to help subpoena financial records related to Jeffrey Epstein.
The report by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), released last week, suggested that major banks including JPMorganChase, Bank of America and Deutsche Bank failed to report concerns about Epstein’s financial transactions from as far back as 2002 until after the millionaire financier was arrested on sex trafficking charges in 2019.
“I said from the start that if you want to get to the bottom of the Jeffrey Epstein cover-up, you had to follow the money,” Wyden said in a statement accompanying the report.
“This report is a ready-made roadmap for prosecutors, investigators and members of Congress to finally start holding the Epstein class accountable,” he continued.
In the report, Blackburn — Tennessee’s senior senator and the Republican nominee for governor — is accused of ignoring efforts by Senate Democrats to subpoena these banks, despite her public calls for transparency in the Epstein case and punitive justice for sex offenders.
Wyden, a ranking member and former chair of the Senate Finance Committee, says he repeatedly went to Blackburn’s staff from 2024-2025 to ask for her help as a Republican committee member to subpoena Epstein bank records “as Blackburn had long been an outspoken proponent of increased transparency with relation to Jeffrey Epstein,” but her office declined.
The next year, Blackburn posted on social media, claiming her “efforts to crack the Epstein trafficking ring wide open have been stonewalled by Democrats at every turn,” despite allegedly opting out of helping Wyden with the Finance Committee investigation.
That day, Blackburn also wrote a letter to newly appointed FBI Director Kash Patel calling it “paramount that the FBI provide full transparency to the American people and immediately release the complete, unredacted records in this case.” Specifically, Blackburn called for the release of flight logs from Epstein’s private helicopter and plane, records containing names of associates including the infamous “little black book” maintained by Ghislaine Maxwell, footage from Epstein’s Florida home and “any other documents, records, or memoranda related to the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell matters.”
The same day, she wrote to the IRS, asking the agency to release any materials “that reveal the names of individuals and entities that held any type of financial relationship with Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell.”
According to the report, Blackburn also ignored a request from Wyden in December to co-sponsor the Produce Epstein Treasury Records Act, which would have required the Treasury Department to share Epstein’s financial records with the committee. The bill currently has 10 sponsors, all of whom are Democrats.
If Blackburn is elected governor, she will leave the Senate office in January and ostensibly have no further role in the investigation into, or records fight surrounding, Epstein and Maxwell. Still, the report paints a different picture than Blackburn’s public comments on Epstein and some campaign promises.
During her campaign for governor, Blackburn has said that she will be tough on crime, specifically calling for sex offenders to be executed, when asked if she would continue executions if elected in a questionnaire by the Banner.
“Yes, as soon as a criminal sentenced to death has exhausted all of his/her appeals, the state should execute them,” Blackburn said. “As governor, I will work to bring back the electric chair so that victims’ families can get the closure they deserve. If you rape or molest our babies in Tennessee, you should get a death sentence.”
Blackburn also told the Banner last week that she would stay in the Senate office until sworn in as governor, which would set her up to appoint her own replacement in the Senate.
Neither Blackburn’s campaign nor Senate office staff responded to questions from the Banner about Wyden’s report, the subpoena’s, Blackburn’s comments on Epstein or her relationship to President Donald Trump, who is referenced repeatedly in the released files.
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