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俄勒冈州民主党参议员罗恩·怀登指控司法部一名高级官员阻止公开一份与杰弗里·爱泼斯坦（Jeffrey Epstein）涉嫌贩毒和卖淫的秘密调查相关的文件。
怀登表示，司法部副部长托德·布兰奇（Todd Blanche）阻止了司法部有组织犯罪药物执法特别工作组（Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces）于2015年编制的一份未删节备忘录的公开。该机构负责协调政府机构间复杂的毒品和洗钱调查。
布兰奇在社交媒体帖子中回应称：“一名现任美国参议员为了博眼球完全编造了一个故事。没有人在阻止任何事情。”他补充说，该备忘录“在我们的阅览室”对国会议员“未作删改”，但怀登从未访问过。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻在2月份报道称，1月份公布的超过300万份爱泼斯坦相关文件中包含的大量删改备忘录显示，这名被判有罪的性犯罪者是美国缉毒局（Drug Enforcement Agency）调查的对象，该调查至少持续了五年。
怀登周三在致布兰奇的信中写道，参议院财政委员会的调查人员被告知，美国缉毒局准备应他的要求提供该备忘录的未删节副本——直到布兰奇在过去三周内的某个时候进行了干预。
“我注意到你正在阻止美国缉毒局提供我要求的关于杰弗里·爱泼斯坦及其几名同伙进行贩毒和洗钱活动的报告的未删节副本，”怀登写道，“你所谓的干预此事的行为令人高度不安。”
怀登补充说，他认为政府有“充分证据”表明爱泼斯坦参与了贩毒活动，并且“可能向包括未成年女孩在内的受害者注射了致幻药物，以方便实施侵害”。
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经过删改的文件显示，美国缉毒局的调查针对爱泼斯坦和另外14人，因其涉嫌与非法麻醉品有关的可疑资金转账。消息人士告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，内部案件编码表明，美国缉毒局特工针对的是“俱乐部药物”，包括氯胺酮、摇头丸和GHB。文件表明该案件与毒品MDMA（即摇头丸）有关。
“美国缉毒局的报告表明，上述人员涉及非法电汇，这些电汇与在美国美属维尔京群岛和纽约市发生的非法毒品和/或卖淫活动有关，”2015年的文件中写道。这份69页的备忘录标有“执法敏感”字样，并隐瞒了另外14名目标人物的姓名。
一名执法部门消息人士告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，该文件似乎源于美国缉毒局向弗吉尼亚州的有组织犯罪药物执法特别工作组融合中心（Fusion Center）提出的请求，要求对案件目标进行全面调查。随后，该融合中心将这些姓名与所有主要联邦执法数据库进行比对，并为特别工作组提供了相关信息。
一名执法部门消息人士称，美国缉毒局要开启此案，必须存在毒品关联，而融合中心的参与表明该调查“意义重大”。
本月早些时候，哥伦比亚广播公司新闻向美国缉毒局提交了《信息自由法》请求，以获取与该机构案件相关的更多信息。但该机构拒绝了这一请求，理由包括该备忘录的发布“可能合理地预计会干扰执法程序”等。
执法部门消息人士表示，该备忘录可能被扣留，因为其中可能包含与案件相关的执法行动，或者可能列出机密线人姓名。
爱泼斯坦于2019年7月因纽约南区美国检察官办公室的另一项调查被捕并监禁。参与该案件的消息人士告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，检察官当时并不知晓美国缉毒局的早期调查。
几周后他在狱中死亡，被裁定为自杀。
Justice Department blocked release of secret Epstein drug probe file, Sen. Ron Wyden says
Updated on: March 18, 2026 / 2:39 PM EDT / CBS News
Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon accused a top Justice Department official of blocking the release of a document related to a secret investigation of drug trafficking and prostitution by Jeffrey Epstein.
Wyden said Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche blocked the release of an unredacted 2015 memorandum prepared by the Justice Department’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces, an entity charged with coordinating complex drug and money laundering investigations across government agencies.
Blanche said in a social media post, ” A sitting U.S. Senator has completely fabricated a story for clicks. No one is blocking anything.” He added that the memo is available to members of Congress “unredacted in our reading room,” but Wyden never visited.
CBS News reported in February that the heavily redacted memo included in the more than 3 million Epstein files released in January shows the convicted sex offender was the subject of a Drug Enforcement Agency probe that stretched at least five years.
Wyden wrote in his letter to Blanche Wednesday that investigators for the Senate Finance Committee were told the DEA was prepared to comply with his request for an unredacted copy of the memo — until Blanche intervened some time during the last three weeks.
“It has come to my attention that you are preventing the Drug Enforcement Administration from producing an unredacted copy of a report I requested regarding drug trafficking and money laundering by Jeffrey Epstein and several associates,” Wyden wrote. “Your alleged interference in this matter is highly disturbing.”
Wyden added he believes the government had “ample evidence” that Epstein was involved in drug trafficking and “likely pumping his victims, including underage girls, with incapacitating drugs to facilitate abuse.”
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The redacted document shows the DEA’s investigation targeted Epstein and 14 others for suspicious money transfers possibly linked to illegal narcotics. Sources tell CBS News that internal case coding indicates the DEA agents were targeting “club-drugs,” which included ketamine, ecstasy and GHB. The document indicates the case was related to the drug MDMA, otherwise known as ecstasy.
“DEA reporting indicates the above individuals are involved in 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 2015 document says. The 69-page memo is marked “law enforcement sensitive” and conceals the names of the 14 other targets.
The document appears to stem from a request by the DEA to an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces Fusion Center in Virginia for a complete workup on case targets, a law enforcement source told CBS News. The fusion center then ran the names against all the major federal law enforcement databases and produced the information for the task force.
A law enforcement source told CBS News that for the DEA to open the case, there would have to be a drug nexus, and the fusion center’s involvement indicated the investigation was “significant.”
Earlier this month, CBS News submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the DEA for additional information relating to the agency’s case. That request was denied by the agency citing that the memo’s release “[c]ould reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings,” among other reasons.
Law enforcement sources said the memo might be withheld because it could contain enforcement actions connected to the case or confidential informant names could be listed.
Epstein was arrested and jailed in July 2019, after a separate investigation by the U.S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Sources involved in that case told CBS News the prosecutors were not aware of the earlier DEA investigation.
His death in jail weeks later was ruled a suicide.
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