As JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon insists under oath that he did not know about Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking empire, attempting to pin all the blame on former JP Morgan executive James Stanley, who appears to have been more involved with Epstein and even visited him in prison after his Virgin Islands conviction, he’s received a number of letters from Epstein victims urging him to admit that JP Morgan knew what Epstein was doing.
One of the letters was from Haley Robson, 30, who attempted to explain how Epstein’s preying on her negatively affected her, noted that adults refused to help the young girls Epstein took advantage of, and then begged him to admit that he knew what Epstein was doing and try to make amends.
Beginning, she claimed that Epstein and what he did to her has totally consumed her life, before asking that, on the basis of what Epstein did and what JP Morgan allegedly helped him do by providing banking services to him, Dimon show compassion to those Epstein preyed upon. She said, “I cannot begin to explain how Epstein has consumed my life. I cannot make you see, force you to feel or even request that you show compassion to all the survivors. There is literally no way you could possibly understand, truly understand, what our lives, my life, has been like for the last 15 years after Jeffrey.”
She then noted that the girls abused by Epstein as people (implying people such as Dimon with her reference to “colleagues,” as he was a close friend of Stanley) did nothing to help save them from his massive network of abuse. Making that point, she said, “For years I have taken more responsibility, more shame and more criticism than deserved. I don’t understand how so many people, colleagues, knew what was going on, or had evidence and information that could have helped us, and chose not to speak up.”
She then questioned why adults protected Epstein and refused to help the young girls victimized by him, saying, “Adults, adults not wanting to protect us or help us. Why is that okay? Why did we all get picked apart publicly when the reality is you and many more knew something and didn’t speak up? How did the unexplained cash withdrawals not get reported?”
She then commented on how unjust it was for adults to be harassing, attacking and pushing back against young girls who had been sex trafficked by a horrible man on behalf of that same man, going along with the “horrible” things he said about them and his lies, particularly about their reputations. She said, “More so, none of us deserved to be picked apart by any means. When he was arrested in Florida and his lawyers were saying terrible things about us and we were all being abused again and again, physically and reputationally, why didn’t you speak up and provide whatever information you had to police? Imagine what that would have done for us – saved us from years of torture and saved others from being sexually violated from this evil.”
She then commented on how she thinks the victims should have been treated and returned to how awful Epstein had made their lives, saying, “Our lives have not been easy to say the least. We deserve peace, stability, and safety. Dragging victims through more scrutiny and more chaos is not right. We have all paid a price, there are no winners, and we just want to solve the rest of the puzzle.”
She then, ending the letter, directed some heavy fire Jamie Dimon’s way. Again noting the scale of the trauma Epstein, his accomplices, and his enablers subjected her to, she said she wants to move on but people need to start doing the right thing and admit to what they did wrong in the past, calling on him to admit what his bank was up to and try to make amends from there. She said, “This entire trauma has taken more than 20 years of my life… everyone would like to finally move on, but someone who was responsible to any degree needs to do the right thing. Every single person blames someone else. I may not be as smart as you, but we should at least agree that the information you withheld has hurt me and many others. Everyone makes mistakes and has regrets. If you are a good human, you will just admit to making a mistake and be the first to try to do what is right to end this chapter on a positive note for all of us.”
A second letter recounts how a young model in New York City had plenty of potential opportunities in life because of that but was robbed of them by Epstein and his cronies, writing that stole all that from her and made her life miserable, ripping through it like a tornado.
It remains to be seen if the JP Morgan CEO has a conscience and helps investigators go after Epstein’s enablers, or if he’ll continue to try and shield the bank from oversight.
Featured image: Jamie Dimon, World Economic Forum, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons; Jeffrey Epstein, State of Florida, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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