The former first lady of the U.S. Virgin Islands helped financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein deal with the local bureaucracy, and she even received his input on new sex offender laws, JPMorgan Chase argues in its latest court filings.
A lawsuit brought by the Virgin Islands attorney general accuses JPMorgan of providing money for
De Jongh worked for Epstein running business operations, and was alternatively identified as a “compliance person” or “office manager,” according to court papers. She worked for him since at least 2000, according to court papers, including during the tenure of her husband, John de Jongh, as governor of the territory.
Because Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to Florida charges of soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution, the Virgin Islands required him to register as a sex offender, JPMorgan’s filing says. In a March 2011 email cited in the filing, he suggested certain changes to the territory’s sex offender laws. “Maybe we should distinguish between sex offenders and predators,” he wrote to de Jongh. He later added: “It can’t be more restrictive than when I travel in [the] United States.
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