JPMorgan is accused in lawsuits of enabling sex trafficking by Jeffrey Epstein, a former friend of Donald Trump and Bill Clinton who killed himself in 2019.
by plaintiffs' lawyers for the civil suits, which accuse his bank of enabling and benefiting from Epstein's alleged sex trafficking of young women.
"The Court also wishes to note that it is concerned that JPMorgan is not moving more expeditiously to produce responsive documents," Rakoff wrote in the notice, which has yet to appear on the public docket in the case in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. "While the Court appreciates the large volume of discovery that is to be completed in this case, a company as large as JPMorgan and counsel as experienced as WilmerHale and Massey & Gail should be able to move with greater speed than what was revealed by this incident," the judge wrote, referring to the bank's two law firms.
"So JPMorgan is put on notice that further expedition will be needed on pain of being put in contempt of Court," Rakoff wrote.Jeffrey Epstein attends Launch of RADAR MAGAZINE at Hotel QT on May 18, 2005.Epstein, who died from a jailhouse suicide in 2019 shortly after being arrested on federal child sex trafficking charges, was a long-time customer of the bank until 2013.
The lawsuits allege the bank allowed Epstein to remain a client despite evidence he was using millions of dollars he kept on deposit to facilitate his trafficking of girls and young women to his private island in the Virgin Islands and elsewhere.
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