‘Does nobody at JPMorgan have a conscience?’ Three of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims write scathing letters pleading for bank execs to admit they knew about pedophile’s abuse
- Three of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims have penned scathing letters asking JPMorgan brass to admit they knew about the pedophile’s pattern of abuse
- The news comes as the bank faces two lawsuits alleging it played a part in the late financier’s now well-known Virgin Islands-based sex-trafficking network
- Filed by isle brass and lawyers representing Epstein’s victims, the suits contends the bank knew about Epstein’s behavior for years – and even aided in his exploits
Several of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims have penned scathing letters asking JPMorgan brass to admit they knew about the pedophile’s pattern of abuse – as the bank faces two lawsuits alleging it played a part in the late financier’s sex-trafficking ring.
Filed by the US Virgin Islands and lawyers representing Epstein’s many victims, the suits contend the New York-based bank knew about Epstein’s nefarious behavior for years – and even aided in the sex fiend’s sordid exploits while turning a blind eye.
A few months ago, the evidence brought by both parties was enough to sway a judge to rule the cases could go forward – ordering the firm hand over any records involving CEO Jamie Dimon and ex-exec James ‘Jes’ Staley in the process.
The pair, former close friends who held positions of power during the height Epstein’s crimes, have since waged war against one another, with Dimon, 67, insisting Staley, 66, concealed information about Epstein’s account from the bank.
When questioned last week over the bank’s relationship with the sex trafficker, and if he recalled receiving any letters from any Epstein survivors, Dimon, under oath, insisted he did not – before being confronted with an emotional letter from a woman who was 16 when she became entangled in the late trafficker’s web.
Top JPMorgan exec Jamie Dimon, 67, testified last week his bank had no knowledge of then-client Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes – before being confronted with a letter penned to him from an Epstein survivor last month
Penned by Haley Robson, a 16-year-old student in West Palm Beach when she became involved with a then 51-year-old Epstein, the letter begged Dimon to admit to having knowledge of the late financier’s now well-known sex-trafficking ring
‘Dear Jamie Dimon,’ wrote Robson, 30. ‘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’. Prosecutors last week produced two other letters from Epstein survivors
‘Dear Jamie Dimon,’ wrote Haley Robson, 30, who was a student at Royal Palm High School in West Palm Beach when she was recruited by a then 51-year-old Epstein.
‘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.
‘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,’ the letter, first reported by The Daily Beast, went on.
Referencing a past smear campaign launched by Epstein’s attorney to discredit victims after he was convicted of soliciting prostitution from underage girls in 2008, Robson continued: ‘Why did we all get picked apart publicly when the reality is you and many more knew something and didn’t speak up?!’
That legal maneuver came as Staley, then a high-ranking JPMorgan executive tasked with managing Epstein’s multimillion-dollar account, sensationally visiting Epstein in prison after his conviction for prostitution in the US Virgin Island .
It also resulted in Epstein avoiding federal trafficking charges – after which the disgraced banker posed for a photo with Staley and former JPMorgan Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers seemingly in celebration.
‘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,’ Robson continued in what proved to be curt, but forgiving correspondence.
‘Everyone makes mistakes and has regrets,’ the Florida woman – who helped provide Epstein with teens for his sex ring while being abused herself – wrote.
‘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.’
That said, Robson was not the only victim to contact JPMorgan recently as they face questions about their relationship with Epstein.
Courtney Wild, who was 14 when she was abused by Epstein, penned a letter to executive Mary Erdoes last month, asking the longtime executive to support the victims’ fight for justice.
After Epstein’s 2008 plea deal, she was one of several to sue the US government demanding he be brought to justice.
In a handwritten letter dated May 8, Wild wrote she believed ‘JP Morgan was Epstein’s right hand in allowing him to become the most abusive sex offender in history.’
‘Yet, rather than acknowledging a wrong doing, accepting responsibility, making an apology to all of us, and doing what is right,’ it continued, ‘I understand that JP Morgan has unleashed an army of lawyers to torture the victims who brought the cases and put them through even more pain and suffering.’
Wild would then declare: ‘Does nobody at JP Morgan have a conscience?’
‘I have fought my entire adult life against Jeffrey Epstein, his powerful associates, his investigators, his lawyers, and even the US government for justice. I don’t want to have to fight you too.’
Another letter, sent from an unnamed victim last year, recalled to Erdoes – who allegedly held discussions about the accusations against Epstein but decided to keep him as a client – how she was abused by Epstein during what she thought was a job interview at his Manhattan apartment.
During the week’s proceedings, both executives maintained they were not aware of Epstein’s misdeeds, and that Staley was the one at fault.
Robson was not the only victim to contact JPMorgan recently as they face questions about their relationship with Epstein. Courtney Wild, who was 14 when she was abused by Epstein, penned a letter to executive Mary Erdoes last month, asking the longtime executive to support the victims’ fight for justice
After Epstein’s 2008 plea deal, Wild – seen here in court in July during Epstein’s trial – was one of several to sue the US government demanding he be brought to justice
Another letter, sent from an unnamed victim last year, recalled to Erdoes how she was abused by Epstein during what she thought was a job interview at his Manhattan apartment.
Last November, Jane Doe sued JPMorgan, alleging the bank secretly presided over Epstein’s trafficking empire, while keeping him as a client for 14 years.
In her complaint, Doe said a ‘powerful financial executive’ who was friends with Epstein had sexually assaulted her but she declined to name him ‘out of fear.’
That executive was unmasked as former JPMorgan staffer Staley, who left the bank in 2013 for a shortlived CEO-stint at Barclays.
The accomplished banker would eventually resign in 2021, while contesting findings gleaned by regulators at the time that unveiled his connection to Epstein.
Identifying Staley – long a friend of Dimon’s – as the ‘powerful financial executive’ accused in a separate Epstein-related suit filed against the bank last year, JP Morgan said he should have to reimburse it for any damages if the allegations in the Virgin Islands suit are found to be true.
In The US Virgin Island’s suite, the Caribbean territory has claimed at least one JPMorgan exec knew about Epstein’s trafficking of women and teenage girls.
JPMorgan maintains that Staley – who has nearly four decades of experience in the banking and financial spheres – concealed such information from the bank.
Like the victims, US Virgin Islands is asking damages from the bank for keeping Epstein on as a client, and missing red flags about his more than a decade of misconduct.
The US territory has called Dimon ‘a likely source of relevant and unique information’ about why JPMorgan kept Epstein on as a client, even after he was arrested in 2006 and later indicted by a grand jury for taking part in a child prostitution ring in Palm Beach, Florida.
Pleading guilty, Epstein was promptly sentenced to 18 months in jail, though under a secret arrangement, the US attorney’s office agreed not to prosecute Epstein for federal crimes.
Epstein – who died in 2019 while in federal custody in the Big Apple – ran much of his criminal activities out of his compound on Little St. James Island, a private island he owned off the coast that falls in the Virgin Islands’ jurisdiction.
The Thursday ruling serves as the latest development to the case, which comes after the Virgin Islands’ attorney general Denise N. George said JPMorgan should have known about Epstein’s crimes on Little St. James Island. She was fired within weeks.
Dimon, meanwhile, has deflected blame on former JPMorgan executive James ‘ Jes’ Staley – a former top executive who had been tasked with keeping Epstein’s business at the bank for the better part of fifteen years. He is now accused of assaulting one of Epstein’s victims as well
In its own suit, JPMorgan insists 66-year-old Staley – seen here with Epstein and former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers – concealed information from the bank. The picture was taken after Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from underage girls in 2008
While a high-ranking JPMorgan executive, Staley famously visited Epstein in prison after his conviction for prostitution in 2008.
The bank has denied Staley actually went to the prison, saying instead Epstein visited Staley at his office during a work release for his 18-month prison sentence.
After the full extent of Epstein’s crimes became known in 2019, Staley initially claimed he and Epstein were little more than acquaintances tied by business.
Later he admitted to having a close professional relationship that he established while running JPMorgan’s private bank and asset management division from 2000 to 2009.
Staley became the CEO of Barclay’s in 2015, but in 2021 stepped down amidst a probe into whether he had concealed the extent of his relationship with Epstein.
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