Financial giant JPMorgan is claiming it should not be sued over its relationship with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
The government of the Virgin Islands has sued the financial giant. A newly released version of the lawsuit said that “at least 20 individuals paid through JP Morgan accounts were victims of trafficking and sexual assault in Little St. James, New York, and/or other Epstein properties.”
Little St. James was the location of Epstein’s Virgin Islands home.
JPMorgan is also being sued by a former sex trafficking victim, known in the lawsuit as Jane Doe 1.
In response, a new lawsuit has been filed in which JPMorgan is suing Jes Staley, a former senior executive at JPMorgan.
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The JPMorgan lawsuit repeats claims Doe made in her suit that “Staley knew without any doubt that Epstein was trafficking and abusing girls” and that “all of [Epstein’s] staff, including his main attorney and accountant, worked full time to conceal the illegal operation.”
“Doe also alleges, ‘Staley had observed victims personally, and he was aware that Epstein was shelling out millions of dollars to attorneys to take on these well-founded allegations,’” the JPMorgan lawsuit claims, adding, “Doe alleges that Staley ‘personally observed Doe as a sex trafficking and abuse victim at times including through his departure from JP Morgan in 2013.’”
The claim cites allegations from Doe that Stalely “‘personally spent time with young girls whom he met through Epstein on several occasions’; ‘personally visited young girls at Epstein’s apartments located at 301 East 66th Street’; ‘personally observed Epstein around young girls’; and personally observed, ‘Epstein sexually grab young women in front of him.’”
The Morgan lawsuit said Staley never informed JPMorgan about his connections with Epstein.
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The suit said that if the claims from Doe and the Virgin Islands government are true, “Staley repeatedly abandoned the interests of JPMC and served his own and Epstein’s interests.”
The bank summed up its claims by writing “to the extent that Staley knew of, participated…
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