Newly unearthed DEA document from Epstein files raises question: Did Epstein facilitate drug trafficking? [View all]
Source: CBS News
February 23, 2026 / 6:20 PM EST
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.
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