2026年2月26日 / 美国东部时间凌晨5:00 / CBS新闻
一位资深参议院民主党议员正呼吁美国缉毒局(DEA)提供关于一起长期（且长期秘密）调查的信息，该调查涉及杰弗里·爱泼斯坦(Jeffrey Epstein)和14名涉嫌同谋者的可能贩毒及可疑金融交易。CBS新闻周一首次报道了此案的存在，依据是在爱泼斯坦档案中发现的一份高度编辑的69页DEA备忘录。
俄勒冈州参议员、参议院财政委员会成员罗恩·怀登(Ron Wyden)在致DEA局长特伦斯·科尔(Terrance C. Cole)的信中表示：”除了性交易外，爱泼斯坦及其同伙似乎还因其他重大犯罪受到DEA调查，包括非法贩毒和洗钱。”
这份标有”敏感但未分类”的DEA备忘录，是司法部最近公布的超过300万页文件中的一份。
来自2015年的备忘录提到，DEA的有组织犯罪药物执法特别工作组调查代号为”连锁反应”(Chain Reaction)。该备忘录指出，此案于2010年在纽约立案，当时”仍在司法程序中”，表明在5年后起草该备忘录时调查仍在进行。
备忘录称，同谋者正在接受调查，罪名是”与美国维京群岛和纽约市发生的非法毒品和/或卖淫活动相关的非法电汇”。
怀登在信中写道：”爱泼斯坦受到司法部OCDETF特别工作组调查这一事实表明，有充分证据表明爱泼斯坦参与了大量贩毒和卖淫活动，作为跨境犯罪阴谋的一部分。这令人难以置信地不安，也对DEA如何处理这项调查提出了严重质疑。”
除爱泼斯坦外，司法部公布版本中其他调查目标的姓名均被涂黑。调查的许多细节也被编辑。
怀登对”过度编辑……远远超出了《爱泼斯坦档案透明法案》的意图，该法案允许为保护受害者身份而非犯罪性交易组织成员身份进行编辑”表示关切。
他还质疑为何未对爱泼斯坦或其他人提出贩毒或金融犯罪指控，并询问”DEA和司法部在特朗普第一任期内是否为了保护恋童癖者而终止了这项调查”。
DEA未回应CBS新闻的置评请求。
怀登的信要求DEA在3月13日前移交该备忘录的完整、未编辑副本，供其委员会调查。他还要求该机构提供更多关于为何调查爱泼斯坦和其他14人的信息，案件何时结案，以及为何从未对他们提出联邦贩毒或洗钱指控。
杰弗里·爱泼斯坦（右）以及2015年美国缉毒局备忘录封面，其中将他列为调查的15人之一。文件由司法部发布。
Senator calls for DEA to provide info on “incredibly disturbing” Epstein drug investigation
February 26, 2026 / 5:00 AM EST / CBS News
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.
Jeffrey Epstein, at right, and the cover page of a 2015 Drug Enforcement Administration memo listing him as one of 15 people targeted in an investigation. Document released by Department of Justice
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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