2026年2月23日 / 美国东部时间下午6:20 / CBS新闻
美国司法部最新披露的爱泼斯坦相关文件显示，美国缉毒局（DEA）曾开展一项此前未公开的五年多调查，针对杰弗里·爱泼斯坦（Jeffrey Epstein）及另外14人，调查其涉嫌与非法毒品交易相关的可疑资金转移活动。
该2015年文件指出：“DEA报告显示，上述人员参与非法电汇，这些电汇与发生在美属维尔京群岛和纽约市的非法毒品及/或卖淫活动有关联。”
这份69页的备忘录标注为“执法敏感”，且大量内容被编辑，掩盖了另外14名目标人物的姓名以及调查中的大部分实质性细节。
文件似乎源自DEA向弗吉尼亚州一个打击有组织犯罪和毒品执法特别工作组融合中心提出的请求，该中心旨在从其他机构获取与爱泼斯坦及其他目标人物相关的信息，作为一项活跃案件的一部分。该特别工作组是里根时代为打击可卡因走私激增而成立的，融合中心于2009年开放，作为联邦执法机构间情报共享的枢纽。
一位执法部门消息人士向CBS新闻透露，DEA开展此案必须有毒品相关的联系，而向融合中心提出的请求表明此事属于“重大”调查，而非例行信息查询。
文件包含DEA案件编号，案件起始日期为2010年12月17日，地点在纽约。文件注明该事项“待司法程序解决”，这表明在五年后的备忘录起草时，调查仍在进行中。一位执法部门消息人士表示，这一标注可能意味着调查人员在等待法院批准搜查令或其他法律行动。
另一位执法部门消息人士称，这可能意味着与该案件相关的某个人已被逮捕，但由于其他目标人物的姓名在文件中被编辑，CBS新闻无法证实这一点。
2018年由美国纽约南区联邦检察官办公室发起的另一案件，最终在2019年7月爱泼斯坦因涉嫌性交易被捕后，将其关押在曼哈顿下城联邦监狱。参与该案件的消息人士向CBS新闻表示，检察官当时并不知晓此前的DEA调查。
爱泼斯坦在2019年8月因性交易案等待审判期间死于狱中，死因被裁定为自杀。
财务交易及其他调查
DEA文件还披露了其他一些与爱泼斯坦有某种关联、此前不为人知的调查。这些调查包括：
- 美国海关和边境保护局（ICE）2006年在西棕榈滩发起的调查，2008年结案；
- 美国海关和边境保护局2009年在拉斯维加斯发起的调查，状态标注为“待处理/2010年1月27日”；
- 美国海关和边境保护局2013年6月在巴黎发起的调查，数月后结案，标题为“天使守望行动”；
- 2006年由联邦调查局（FBI）发起的调查，截至2015年仍在进行中。
文件还列出了爱泼斯坦之前的执法接触情况，并指明了与他相关的银行账户，包括瑞士、法国、开曼群岛和纽约的账户。
文件详细记录了2010-2015年间约5000万美元的可疑电汇交易，但与这些交易相关的个人姓名被编辑。美国司法部似乎意外地未编辑一位波兰时装模特的姓名，她被确认涉及约200万美元的转账，并被列为调查目标。
该女性与爱泼斯坦的电子邮件也在此次披露中被包含，显示两人存在私人关系。应该女性律师的要求，CBS新闻未披露其身份，其律师表示她是爱泼斯坦的受害者之一。该律师未回应关于她是否知道自己是DEA调查目标的询问。
备忘录还列出了几个与爱泼斯坦相关、过去曾受到审查的企业。其中一家企业信息被编辑，另外两家是SLK Designs LLC和Hyperion Air。Hyperion Air被爱泼斯坦用作其飞机的控股公司，SLK Designs由两名女性运营，她们曾在爱泼斯坦2008年与联邦政府签署的所谓“甜蜜协议”（非起诉协议）中被列为潜在同谋者。
记录显示，这些公司由爱泼斯坦的律师达伦·因迪克（Darren Indyke）组建和控制。
CBS新闻已联系因迪克的律师，但未收到回应。此前，因迪克的律师丹尼尔·韦纳（Daniel Weiner）曾向CBS新闻表示，该律师“从未与爱泼斯坦社交”，并“坚决否认任何暗示其明知或协助爱泼斯坦进行性虐待或贩卖妇女活动，或在为其提供法律和会计服务时知晓其行为的说法”。他补充称，没有任何法官或法院认定爱泼斯坦的律师存在任何不当行为。
来自俄勒冈州的民主党参议员罗恩·怀登（Ron Wyden）一直作为参议院财政委员会的少数党成员追踪爱泼斯坦案，他告诉CBS新闻，追查资金流向是了解爱泼斯坦犯罪行为的关键。
“看来爱泼斯坦参与的犯罪活动远不止恋童癖和性交易，这使得帕姆·邦迪（Pam Bondi）仍封存数百万份未公开文件的行为更加令人震惊。”怀登表示。
美国缉毒局和司法部均未回应CBS新闻寻求更多信息或置评的请求。
Newly unearthed DEA document from Epstein files raises question: Did Epstein facilitate drug trafficking?
February 23, 2026 / 6:20 PM EST / CBS News
Jeffrey Epstein was the subject of a previously undisclosed U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency investigation — a five-year-plus probe targeting him and 14 other individuals for suspicious money transfers possibly linked to illegal narcotics, a newly uncovered document in the Department of Justice’s Epstein files reveals.
“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 remains heavily redacted, concealing the names of the 14 other targets and much of the substantive detail surrounding the investigation.
The document appears to stem from a request made by the DEA to an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces Fusion Center in Virginia seeking information from other agencies related to Epstein and the other targets as part of an active case. The task force is a Reagan-era creation to combat a surge in cocaine trafficking, and the Fusion Center was opened in 2009 as a clearinghouse for intelligence sharing between federal law enforcement agencies.
For the DEA to open the case, there would have to be a drug nexus, a law enforcement source told CBS News, adding that the request to the Fusion Center indicated the matter was part of a “significant” investigation rather than a routine information inquiry.
The document includes a DEA case number and lists the case’s opening date as Dec. 17, 2010 in New York. It notes that the matter is “judicial pending,” indicating that the investigation remained active at the time the memo was drafted 5 years later. One law enforcement source told CBS News that this designation suggests investigators may have been awaiting court approval for search warrants or other legal action.
Jeffrey Epstein, at right, and the cover page of a 2010 Drug Enforcement Administration memo listing him as one of 15 people targeted in an investigation. Document released by Department of Justice
Another law enforcement source said it likely meant an arrest of someone associated with the case had been made. CBS News could not confirm that because the names of other targets were redacted from the document.
A different case launched in 2018 by the U.S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York ultimately landed Epstein in a lower Manhattan federal jail after he was arrested in July 2019 on charges of sex trafficking.
Sources involved in that case told CBS News the prosecutors were not aware of the earlier DEA investigation.
Epstein was awaiting trial in the sex trafficking case when he died behind bars in August 2019. His death was ruled a suicide.
Financial transactions and other investigations
The DEA document also reveals the existence of other previously unknown investigations with some link to Epstein. Those include an ICE investigation in West Palm Beach, opened in 2006 and closed in 2008; an ICE investigation in Las Vegas, opened in 2009 and listed as “pending/01/27/2010;” an ICE investigation in Paris, opened in June of 2013 and closed months later, titled Operation Angel Watch; and an FBI investigation opened in 2006 that still remained active in 2015.
The document also lists prior law enforcement contact and identifies bank accounts linked to Epstein, including accounts in Switzerland, France, the Cayman Islands and New York.
It details approximately $50 million in suspicious wire transfers from 2010-2015, although the names of the individuals linked to those transactions are redacted.The DOJ appears to have accidentally neglected to redact the name of a Polish fashion model who was identified in connection to approximately $2 million in transfers and named as a target of the investigation.
Emails between that woman and Epstein were included in the release, indicating that they had a personal relationship. CBS News is not identifying the woman at the request of her attorney, who said she was a survivor of Epstein’s. Her attorney did not reply to inquiries about whether she was aware she was a DEA target.
The memo also lists several businesses associated with Epstein that have come under scrutiny in the past. One of those companies was redacted, the other two are SLK Designs LLC and Hyperion Air. Hyperion Air was used by Epstein as a holding company for his aircraft and SLK Designs was run by two women who were included in Epstein’s 2008 so-called “sweetheart” non-prosecution agreement with the federal government and named as potential co-conspirators.
Records show those companies were formed and controlled by Epstein’s attorney Darren Indyke.
CBS News has reached out to an attorney for Indyke and has not received a response. In a prior statement, his attorney Daniel Weiner told CBS News the lawyer “did not socialize with Mr. Epstein, and … rejected as categorically false any suggestion that they knowingly facilitated or assisted Mr. Epstein in his sexual abuse or trafficking of women, or that they were aware of Mr. Epstein’s actions while they provided legal and accounting services to Mr. Epstein.” He added that no judge or court found Epstein’s attorneys committed any wrongdoing of any kind.
Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon who has been pursuing the Epstein investigation as ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, told CBS News that following the money is key to learning more about Epstein’s crimes. .
“It appears Epstein was involved in criminal activity that went way beyond pedophilia and sex trafficking, which makes it even more outrageous that Pam Bondi is sitting on several million unreleased files.” Wyden said.
Neither the DEA or the DOJ responded to requests by CBS News for more information or comment.
