JPMorgan Chase handled business related to disgraced sex trafficker and financier Jeffrey Epstein until mere months before his death by suicide in 2019, the U.S. Virgin Islands government claimed in a court filing Monday.
The U.S. territory has been pursuing a lawsuit against JPMorgan, arguing that the bank was complicit in funding Epstein’s long history of abuse and child sex trafficking. In calling for a partial summary judgment, Monday’s memo from the plaintiffs argues that the bank retained a business relationship of sorts with Epstein for years after 2013, the year JPMorgan removed him as a client and closed his accounts.
The U.S. Virgin Islands states that JPMorgan was still taking referrals from Epstein in 2019, up until just a few months before his arrest on federal sex trafficking charges, although the exact nature of those referrals to the bank was redacted in public court documents. In 2003, he was that unit’s “top revenue generator,” bringing in more than twice as much as the next biggest client,
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