The revelation of Epstein’s client referral to the financial institution came six years after the bank said it terminated the convicted sex offender as a customer in 2013.
Ruemmler didn’t immediately respond to NBC News’ request for comment Friday, and Goldman Sachs declined to comment.The U.S. Virgin Islands sued the bank last year alleging it facilitated the disgraced financier’s sex trafficking enterprise and failed to flag suspicious financial activity. The Wallstreet giant has denied liability.
In former JPMorgan Chase executive Jes Staley’s deposition for the lawsuit, he said Epstein referred several ultra-wealthy clients to the financial institution, including Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. Staley — who was head of the asset and wealth management at JPMorgan Chase — said in his deposition that he spoke to the bank’s CEO Jamie Dimon in 2006 about Epstein’s being indicted for procuring a child for prostitution in Florida. Staley said he told Dimon, because Dimon was his boss and Epstein was a client of the bank, adding that the indictment was a “very public event.”that he had never met the disgraced financier and never even heard of him until Epstein’s 2019 arrest.
The bank sued Staley in March, alleging he knew about Epstein’s conduct and engaged in “sexual activity with young women procured by Epstein.” The bank said in the lawsuit that Staley should be held liable for any financial penalties it faces from the suit brought by the U.S. Virgin Islands. A federal judge in May denied Staley’s bid to dismiss the complaint.Staley has called the accusations “baseless” but has expressed regret for his relationship with Epstein.
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