The Jeffrey Epstein scandal continues to plague the Trump administration, and on Wednesday, a prominent Democratic senator called for Congress to investigate the financial ties between the dead sex criminal and a host of financial organizations and people, including tech billionaire Peter Thiel.

Much of the debate about the “Epstein files” has centered around what records the Justice Department may have on his illicit sex crimes but, according to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), the more important files may actually be at the Commerce Department, where evidence of the dead financier’s financial activities seem to connect him to a wide variety of wealthy and influential people and institutions.

One of those people, according to Wyden, is Thiel, whose venture capital firm is reported to have p

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