Trump-Epstein Network's "Third Man" Exposed By Senate Investigation

Senator's Wyden's investigation reveals Leon Black as the crucial connector in decades-long intelligence operation

Senator Ron Wyden's explosive letter to the IRS has shattered the final protective wall around Leon Black, exposing him as the third man who made the Trump-Epstein intelligence network possible. The Oregon Democrat's four-year investigation has assembled evidence that transforms Black from peripheral figure into the crucial architect of a financial infrastructure that enabled decades of compromise operations targeting American political and business elites

Jeffrey Epstein, left, and Leon Black, right, with Pepe Fanjul, center, at a 2005 New York City movie premiere.

The timing of Wyden's July 31 letter, demanding answers by September 1, creates a prosecutorial deadline that coincides with mounting pressure on Trump's restored presidency. The senator has methodically documented how Black's $158 million in payments to Jeffrey Epstein funded sex trafficking operations while the IRS provided systematic protection through deliberate non-enforcement. This wasn't bureaucratic incompetence—it was institutional capture designed to shield intelligence assets and their networks.