Democrat Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon has bashed the Trump administration over its handling of Epstein files, but documents released last month reveal his own son arranged a business meeting with the convicted pedo.
Seven years after Epstein was released from a Florida prison after pleading guilty to solicitation of prostitution from a minor, Adam Wyden, who founded his own private investment fund, ADW Capital, in 2010, was introduced to the disgraced financier through mutual friend Jonathan Farkas.
“Adam my friend jeffery Epstein who manages 5 billion said to call his office he wants to see your record and would consider investing with you,” Farkas wrote on April 27, 2016. A message from a redacted email address also helped arrange the meeting, according to a trove of emails released by the Justice Department.
Hedge funder Adam Wyden gushed about Jeffrey Epstein in a 2016 email after their meeting. YouTube/Jewish Heritage Programs The men decided to huddle the following day at Epstein’s Upper East Side townhouse at 10 a.m., according to the documents.
Wyden gushed in a follow-up message to Epstein after the meeting about his “passion and dedication for my business” while seeking to reel him in as a client.
“I live and breathe this business and take my returns, integrity and reputation quite seriously,” he wrote in the April 2016 message. He also called them “like minded individuals” and said he ‘would very much look forward to having you join us at the fund.” There are no indications Wyden knew about any illegal Epstein activity or that Epstein became a client.
When contacted by The Post, Adam Wyden, 41, said, “No comment – I’m not interested,” and hung up.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the top Democrat on the Finance Committee, has led the charge for the Treasury Department to release Suspicious Activity Reports related to Epstein. His son turned up in emails lining up a meeting with the disgraced pedophile. Getty Images Jonathan Farkas turns up separately in an embarrassing 2017 email exchange asking Epstein to tell him whether a woman he was seeing was “a hooker.”
Farkas’ wife Somers is serving currently as the US ambassador to Malta.
Sen. Wyden has made Epstein an issue for the past four years. The top Democrat on the Finance Committee, Wyden in a July floor speech called to “follow the money” to track the “ultra rich well-connected sex trafficker serial rapist.” He wants Treasury to hand over “a big Epstein file that’s full of actionable information” on Epstein’s financial transactions that the agency is holding back.
“I don’t speak to my kids about their business activities,” Sen. Wyden told The Post. “My investigation began four years ago and continues unchanged. I want transparency and accountability across the board.”
“For months Ron Wyden has been telling lies about President Trump, and now we know it’s because he is desperate to cover up that following Epstein’s money leads right back to his family,” said Republican National Committee Spokesperson Nick Poche. He called on Wyden to “come clean right now about how much his family gained financially from Jeffrey Epstein and his connections.”
