Epstein Secrets

e financial institution has that legal obligation. The Eleventh Circuit rejected the argument, stating that the government: charged and proved that Tobon willfully and knowingly caused financial institutions not to report currency transactions that they had a duty to report and would have reported if

d to use or promote the same unlawful activity. Accordingly, one could charge Epstein alone with individual counts ofviolating Section 1960 for each Western Union transfer and for each ATM withdrawal that occurred immediately prior to one of Banasiak's documented payments to one of the girls. I decided not to

hat I forego the Section 1956 charge and, instead, charge Epstein with aiding and abetting the unlicensed money transmitting by causing his bank and Western Union unwittingly to transmit funds intended to be used to promote and support sex trafficking and white slave traffic. The Money Laundering Section refe

e financial institution has that legal obligation. The Eleventh Circuit rejected the argument, stating that the government: charged and proved that Tobon willfully and knowingly caused financial institutions not to report currency transactions that they had a duty to report and would have reported if

hat I forego the Section 1956 charge and, instead, charge Epstein with aiding and abetting the unlicensed money transmitting by causing his bank and Western Union unwittingly to transmit funds intended to be used to promote and support sex trafficking and white slave traffic. The Money Laundering Section refe

e financial institution has that legal obligation. The Eleventh Circuit rejected the argument, stating that the government: charged and proved that Tobon willfully and knowingly caused financial institutions not to report currency transactions that they had a duty to report and would have reported if

e financial institution has that legal obligation. The Eleventh Circuit rejected the argument, stating that the government: charged and proved that Tobon willfully and knowingly caused financial institutions not to report currency transactions that they had a duty to report and would have reported if

stern Union were the innocent intermediaries who operated the money transmitting business. Nonetheless, Epstein's directions to pay the girls caused Western Union to transmit funds that were intended to be used to promote or support unlawful activity — the prostitution of minors. Epstein's directions to Banasi