U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Denise George filed a lawsuit accusing JPMorgan Chase of ‘enabling’ and ‘facilitating’ Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes.
George accuses Chase of “knowingly providing and pulling the levers through which recruiters and victims were paid.”
The complaint was filed Wednesday in Manhattan District Court.
The attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands is accusing JPMorgan Chase of helping Jeffrey Epstein illegally exploit women and girls, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday. The suit says the bank helped conceal Epstein's suspicious activities.https://t.co/0eT8QXZXsf
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The lawsuit claims Chase ignored the truth surrounding Epstein and his crimes to keep him as a client.
Daily Mail reported:
The bank, which has yet to comment on the suit, kept Epstein as a client between 1998 and 2013 before finally cutting ties.
For years, the secretive financier was based out of his private island, Little St. James in the Virgin Islands. He was found dead in 2019 in his jail cell in Manhattan while awaiting trial on sexual abuse of minors and trafficking charges. The official cause of death was suicide.
The new lawsuit explicitly states that Epstein used his home on Little St. James for his sex crimes. In June, Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years prison for trafficking minors for sex.
Epstein first became a client at Chase in 1998. There have been numerous reports since his death that the bank’s executives sought to keep Epstein on board due to his connections with some of the richest people in the world.
One section of the lawsuit reads: ‘Human trafficking was the principal business of the accounts Epstein maintained at JPMorgan.’
AG George said that the suit was part of an ‘outgoing effort’ to bring accountability to those who helped facilitate Epstein’s actions.
The complaint goes on to accuse Chase of concealing ‘wire and cash transactions that raised suspicion of a criminal enterprise whose currency was the sexual servitude’ of young girls.
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