President Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, dropped a bombshell regarding a relationship with the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and a top Democratic lawmaker that stunned the critic into silence.
While testifying before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday, Bessent said Democratic Oregon Senator Ron Wyden and his family had deep ties to Epstein.
After repeated attacks by Wyden, Bessent noted the fact that Senator Wyden’s son, Adam Wyden, was close with Jeffrey Epstein and said that his father had “mendaciously slandered the Treasury building to cover up his son having an investment with Jeffrey Epstein” at the hearing.
During the heated exchange, Wyden was initially stunned and theny retorted that “Nobody is interested in the rambling of a capo in the most corrupt regime in American history.”
The Treasury Secretary then brought up the fact that Adam Wyden’s largest investment position was a strip club chain called Rick’s Cabaret, to which the Senator had no response.
“Did your son and Epstein discuss pole dancing?” Bessent asked.
Take a listen —
BESSENT: "Sen. Wyden has slandered the Treasury building to cover up his son having an investment with Jeffrey Epstein."
WYDEN: "Nobody is interested in the rambling of a capo in the most corrupt regime in American history."
BESSENT: "Your son's largest investment position… pic.twitter.com/N8KNmWxvMV
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) June 3, 2026
Bessent was on Capitol Hill to testify about Trump’s 2027 budget requests before Congress.
Wyden has managed his own hedge fund called ADW Capital Partners since 2010, with his connections to Epstein dating back to that time.
Email exchanges between Jeffrey Epstein and Adam Wyden, and others around them showcased from the Department of Justice release of the Epstein files revealed that the two met via a mutual friend, Jonathan Farkas, and that the three of them met at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion back in 2016, according to The New York Post.
“Adam my friend jeffery [sic] Epstein who manages 5 billion said to call his office he [sic] wants to see your record and would consider investing with you,” Farkas wrote to Wyden in April 2016, The Post reported.
After the meeting, Wyden replied to an Epstein email saying the two of them were “like-minded individuals,” the emails read. Wyden noted his own “passion and dedication for [his] business” in hopes of taking him on as a client.
“I live and breathe this business and take my returns, integrity and reputation quite seriously,” he wrote in the message, and said that he “would very much look forward to having you join us at the fund.”
Adam Wyden’s ADW fund is a 10% shareholder in the Houston-based RCI Hospitality, which runs more than 40 strip clubs and happens to be a parent company of Rick’s Cabaret, according to a Forbes profile on the Democratic Senator’s son.