Apparently, executives at JP Morgan not only were aware of financier and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s sick attraction toward young girls, but joked about that “interest” in children while letting him continue banking with JP Morgan.
Such is what Forbes reported, saying, “Executives at JPMorgan Chase were so well aware of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s “interest in young girls” they allegedly “joked” about it, according to a new filing in a lawsuit against the bank, in a case that has embroiled some of the richest and most powerful people in America over Epstein’s ties to the institution.”
Much of the filing has been redacted, but that allegation comes from page 23 of the suit and can be seen because it is partially unredacted. It says, “Indeed, Epstein’s behavior was so widely known at JPMorgan that senior executives joked about Epstein’s interest in young girls. In 2008, for example, Mary Erdoes
received an email asking her.” What was in the email has been blacked out.
The lawsuit goes on to note that the bank continued to work with Epstein even after he was convicted in 2008 of soliciting sex from underage girls.
Because of the bank’s intimate knowledge of what Epstein was up to and continuing to work with him regardless, the US Virgin Islands is alleging that the bank participated in his sex-trafficking venture, saying, “JP Morgan knowingly and intentionally participated in Epstein’s sex-trafficking venture that was in and affecting interstate and foreign commerce, together and with others, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a)(2) by facilitating payments to women and girls, channeling funds to Epstein to fund the operation, and concealing Epstein’s criminal conduct by failing to comply with federal banking law.
Continuing, the filing goes on to say:
“JP Morgan knowingly and intentionally benefitted financially from and received value for its participation in the sex-trafficking venture in which Epstein and his co-conspirators, with JP Morgan’s knowledge or reckless disregard of the fact, would use means of force, threats of force, fraud, coercion, and a combination of such means to sexually abuse young women and underage girls, including by causing them to engage in commercial sex acts, in the Virgin Islands and elsewhere.”
[…]”JP Morgan and its employees had actual knowledge that they were facilitating
Epstein’s sexual abuse and sex-trafficking conspiracy to recruit, entice, harbor, transport, provide,
obtain, and maintain young women and underage girls to engage in commercial sex acts through
the means of force, threats of force, fraud, abuse of process, and coercion.”
“Despite this knowledge, JP Morgan intentionally paid for, concealed, facilitated, and participated in Epstein’s and his co-conspirators’ violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a), which JP Morgan knew and was in reckless disregard of the fact that Epstein and his co-conspirators would use its bank accounts and financial transactions to coerce, defraud, and force young women and underage girls to engage in commercial sex acts.”
[…]”JP Morgan’s tortious conduct in violating the TVPA was outrageous and intentional because it was in deliberate furtherance of a widespread and dangerous criminal sex-trafficking venture operated in and from the Virgin Islands. JP Morgan’s tortious conduct also evidenced a high degree of moral turpitude and demonstrated such wanton disregard for the safety of young women and underage girls in the Virgin Islands and elsewhere as to imply a deliberate indifference to its legal obligations.”
JP Morgan, for its part, has maintained that one executive is to blame for its relationship with Epstein.
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