The Hound | Aug. 7

Hi there,

It’s Friday. A new Senate investigation by Sen. Ron Wyden has found that Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan Chase collectively facilitated over $1.4 billion in suspicious wire transfers for Jeffrey Epstein over two decades — transactions including cash withdrawals with no clear business purpose, payments to women and girls, and tens of millions to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. Every one of those executives, save one, remains employed in lucrative positions today, facing zero regulatory discipline. And CBS — now controlled by Trump ally David Ellison — killed a finished 60 Minutes segment on the investigation and fired the reporter who led it.

🖊️ Sign the petition to call on the media to cover the Wyden report not as an Epstein footnote, but as the live corruption and cover-up story it is — one that runs from Wall Street boardrooms to the Treasury Department to a CBS newsroom.

This is not a tabloid story. It is a story about how American financial institutions actively enabled a serial child sex trafficker because he was profitable, how the current administration is blocking the investigation into those institutions, and how a newly consolidated media company just buried the journalism that would have told the public about it. The public deserves reporting that names the bankers, follows the obstruction, and refuses to let this story be buried again.

In addition, the Pentagon is posting cryptic biblical messages on social media while the war on Iran rages. And the Trump administration begins the process of deregulating Head Start, putting the early education program at risk.

Read about these, and more, with today’s stories:

Sen. Wyden Report: Banks Systematically Ignored Jeffrey Epstein’s Crimes (The American Prospect)

Trump administration moves to deregulate Head Start, opening door for sweeping change (NPR)

The Pentagon Is Posting Cryptic Biblical Messages on Social Media (The Intercept)

Heat Is Killing Texas Prisoners, and State Leaders Won’t Shell Out for AC (Mother Jones)

Trump’s Gaza Board of Peace issues first building contract – for a military base (The Guardian)

He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The State Says No. (ProPublica)

Until next time,

Harry from The Hound

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