Latest / The Vault: The Epstein Files / Mega Edition: JP Morgan And Their Internal Epstein Report (10/27/26)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
- 0:07Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal has a new report out telling
- 0:10Speaker 1: you everything that, well, we already know. That the financial
- 0:15Speaker 1: sector has been lying about their relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
- 0:20Speaker 1: for all of these years. And it's not just Jeff Staley.
- 0:24Speaker 1: It's not just Leon Black. It's a whole lot of
- 0:27Speaker 1: these people who are enriching themselves during Jeffrey Epstein's criminal run.
- 0:32Speaker 1: And none of them have been held responsible for what
- 0:35Speaker 1: they've been up to. And while that's not going to change,
- 0:38Speaker 1: at least not during this civil lawsuit, the more we
- 0:41Speaker 1: can expose the financial sector for the dirtbags they are,
- 0:45Speaker 1: the better off we're all going to be. So staying
- 0:48Speaker 1: in tune with that song, we have an article from
- 0:50Speaker 1: the Daily Mail talking about how J.P. Morgan's top bankers
- 0:55Speaker 1: were meeting with Jeffrey Epstein multiple times even after he
- 0:59Speaker 1: was a convicted pedophile. This article was published by thedailymail.com
- 1:06Speaker 1: and the headline, J.P. Morgan's top bankers met with pedophile
- 1:11Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein multiple times at his Upper East Side townhouse
- 1:16Speaker 1: until 2017, despite saying it shut his accounts after his
- 1:20Speaker 1: conviction in 2013. This article was authored by Miles Dilworth.
- 1:27Speaker 1: JP Morgan bosses were meeting with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein at
- 1:32Speaker 1: his Manhattan townhouse until 2017. Despite the bank claiming it
- 1:37Speaker 1: shut his accounts after his conviction in 2013, it has
- 1:41Speaker 1: been claimed. There's no doubt that they were all still
- 1:44Speaker 1: hanging out. We've talked about it for how long? It
- 1:48Speaker 1: was very clandestine and Lord knows what the hell they
- 1:51Speaker 1: were doing out at Zorro Ranch. Nobody wants to touch that.
- 1:54Speaker 1: Nobody ever wants to talk about that. But if you
- 1:57Speaker 1: think that they weren't having their little jerk-off parties over
- 2:02Speaker 1: at Zorro Ranch, you're missing the whole entire script here.
- 2:06Speaker 1: It wasn't just the townhouse. It wasn't just down in
- 2:09Speaker 1: the Virgin Islands. And the reason he got that ranch
- 2:13Speaker 1: down in New Mexico, well, one of the main reasons anyway,
- 2:16Speaker 1: is because it's so secluded. And with it being so secluded,
- 2:20Speaker 1: him and the rest of his sick degenerate buddies could
- 2:23Speaker 1: get up to whatever it is they were getting up
- 2:25Speaker 1: to out at Zorro Ranch. The Wall Street giant continued
- 2:30Speaker 1: treating Epstein like a star client following his conviction, and
- 2:34Speaker 1: despite repeated warnings from its own employees, it is alleged.
- 2:39Speaker 1: Justin Nelson, one of Epstein's bankers at J.P. Morgan, had
- 2:42Speaker 1: around six meetings at the pedophile's Upper East Side townhouse
- 2:47Speaker 1: between 2014 and 2017, sources told the Wall Street Journal.
- 2:53Speaker 1: Now look, just because you're having meetings as a banker,
- 2:56Speaker 1: doesn't mean you're engaging in the abuse. But you're absolutely
- 3:00Speaker 1: a liar and you're trying to whitewash your relationship with Epstein.
- 3:05Speaker 1: And it's not because you know it was wrong to
- 3:08Speaker 1: enable that dude, but they simply didn't care. They cared
- 3:11Speaker 1: about profits, not people. They cared about securing more dollars
- 3:16Speaker 1: for the bank and they cared about what Jeffrey Epstein
- 3:19Speaker 1: could continue to make flow through those doors as far
- 3:23Speaker 1: as clients and as far as money. Because remember, everybody's
- 3:27Speaker 1: getting a little taste. All of these people involved here,
- 3:30Speaker 1: all of these bankers that are going over to Epstein's house,
- 3:33Speaker 1: they're all getting a little taste of this money. John Duffy,
- 3:37Speaker 1: who ran the firm's private bank, met Epstein at his
- 3:40Speaker 1: property in April 2013, the sources claimed. A month later, J.P.
- 3:45Speaker 1: Morgan allegedly renewed an authorization allowing Epstein to borrow money
- 3:51Speaker 1: despite warnings about his unusual finances. So what that means
- 3:55Speaker 1: is the auditing department, the risk department, they took a
- 3:59Speaker 1: look at what was going on and they flagged it
- 4:03Speaker 1: as an account that was possibly up to illegal activity
- 4:08Speaker 1: or up to structuring or whatever it was. And the
- 4:12Speaker 1: bosses over here, Mr. Nelson and the rest of them,
- 4:16Speaker 1: They decided it would be a good idea to ignore
- 4:19Speaker 1: all of their procedures that they have in place to
- 4:21Speaker 1: make sure that accounts like this are flagged, reported, and closed.
- 4:26Speaker 1: But that only happens to people who aren't bringing the
- 4:29Speaker 1: bank in money hand over fist. That doesn't happen to
- 4:33Speaker 1: people like Jeffrey Epstein. Instead, guys like Nelson, Mary Erdos,
- 4:38Speaker 1: and the rest of them, they're going to break bread
- 4:40Speaker 1: over at Jeffrey's house on a regular basis. And Mary Erdos,
- 4:45Speaker 1: who is close to the bank's CEO, Jamie Dimon, twice
- 4:48Speaker 1: visited Epstein in 2011 and 2013, when Epstein was still
- 4:54Speaker 1: a client, later exchanging dozens of emails, sources told the
- 4:58Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal.
- 5:00Speaker 2: Of course she was. All of them were.
- 5:02Speaker 1: When you have a client that big, it's not just
- 5:05Speaker 1: a one-person operation. Again, just like it wasn't Alex Acosta,
- 5:10Speaker 1: who's giving out sweetheart deals like some people are out
- 5:13Speaker 1: here still piping, it's the same thing here with the bank.
- 5:16Speaker 1: Because nobody, not somebody like Jeff Staley even, is going
- 5:20Speaker 1: to make all of those decisions on their own. There's
- 5:24Speaker 1: people that are going to be looking over your shoulder,
- 5:27Speaker 1: and they're going to give you the okay. So it
- 5:29Speaker 1: wasn't like this was all done in a vacuum, just
- 5:32Speaker 1: like Alexander Acosta didn't have the power to give Jeffrey
- 5:36Speaker 1: Epstein that sweetheart deal all on his own. Erdos has
- 5:41Speaker 1: previously said through a JP Morgan spokesman that the only
- 5:45Speaker 1: time she remembered meeting Epstein was the day she fired
- 5:48Speaker 1: him as a client. Erdos declined to comment on the
- 5:52Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal's latest allegations. They all forget, don't they? Oh,
- 5:56Speaker 1: I had no idea. I forgot that I ever hung
- 5:59Speaker 1: out with Jeffrey. What a bunch of absolute liars.
- 6:04Speaker 2: All of them.
- 6:05Speaker 1: And if you have dozens of emails here with a
- 6:08Speaker 1: paper trail leading back to your relationship, and witnesses and
- 6:11Speaker 1: sources coming out and saying you were going to the townhouse,
- 6:15Speaker 1: it's going to be pretty hard to deny it for long.
- 6:19Speaker 1: You're going to get out it as the liar you are,
- 6:21Speaker 1: and then the questions are going to become, what are
- 6:23Speaker 1: you lying about, and why are you trying to cover
- 6:25Speaker 1: up your relationship with Jeffrey Epstein? Nelson also declined to comment,
- 6:32Speaker 1: while Duffy, who no longer works at the bank, did
- 6:35Speaker 1: not respond to requests for comment from the newspaper. A
- 6:39Speaker 1: JP Morgan spokesman said interactions with Epstein were normal for
- 6:43Speaker 1: a client of a private bank and any meeting held
- 6:46Speaker 1: with him after 2013 was regarding other bank clients whom
- 6:51Speaker 1: Epstein represented.
- 6:53Speaker 2: Oh, give me a break. So why did you do
- 6:55Speaker 2: business with any of them?
- 6:57Speaker 1: Anyone that was doing business with Epstein, you knew that
- 7:00Speaker 1: they were involved in the very least at the very
- 7:03Speaker 1: ground floor. Financial malfeasance. But that's how these banks run.
- 7:09Speaker 1: If it wasn't for that dark money pumping through the
- 7:11Speaker 1: heart of the financial sector, forget it. The latest allegations
- 7:17Speaker 1: come after the Daily Mail unearthed court documents claiming executives
- 7:21Speaker 1: at JP Morgan were so familiar with Jeffrey Epstein's abuse
- 7:25Speaker 1: that they laughed about him being out with 16-year-old Miley Cyrus.
- 7:30Speaker 1: The bombshell lawsuit states that senior managers at the bank
- 7:33Speaker 1: joked about Epstein's interest in young girls, including Cyrus, in 2008.
- 7:39Speaker 1: when she was still starring in the Disney TV series,
- 7:42Speaker 1: Hannah Montana. And what makes that even creepier is that
- 7:45Speaker 1: you know that these dudes love Disney. They were talking
- 7:49Speaker 1: about Disney in the emails using Disney princesses and characters
- 7:54Speaker 1: as reference points. And imagine being Billy Ray Cyrus. Find
- 7:59Speaker 1: out that these dudes are talking about your daughter like that.
- 8:02Speaker 1: I'd be showing up over at the JP Morgan office
- 8:05Speaker 1: with my mullet flying proudly in the wind letting the
- 8:08Speaker 1: whole-ass bank know that they had made an achy-breaky mistakey.
- 8:13Speaker 2: Staff at J.P.
- 8:14Speaker 1: Morgan were accused of making light of the pedophile's activities
- 8:17Speaker 1: in a case filed against it by the government of
- 8:19Speaker 1: the U.S.
- 8:20Speaker 2: Virgin Islands.
- 8:21Speaker 1: The lawsuit also alleges that at least 20 victims were
- 8:25Speaker 1: paid through Epstein's accounts with J.P. Morgan in excess of
- 8:29Speaker 1: $ 1 million. We know how much he was paying out.
- 8:32Speaker 1: He was paying out money hand over fist. And it
- 8:35Speaker 1: was all hush money. One woman who Epstein bought when
- 8:40Speaker 1: she was 14 was paid $ 600, 000, one of the documents claim.
- 8:45Speaker 1: And that's Nadia Marcinkova. We know that that's the talk
- 8:49Speaker 1: that's been out there, that this poor girl was purchased
- 8:53Speaker 1: by Jeffrey Epstein when she was 14, brought to live
- 8:56Speaker 1: with him, and groomed, and from there had all of
- 8:59Speaker 1: this other disgusting, gross-ass nonsense normalized in her life. And
- 9:05Speaker 1: you want to talk about a tragic tale in this
- 9:07Speaker 1: whole entire story? It's Nadia Marcinkova, for my money. And
- 9:11Speaker 1: when I first started researching this, I didn't really have
- 9:15Speaker 1: enough context about who Nadia Marcinkova was or is and
- 9:19Speaker 1: her story. And when you look at what happened with
- 9:22Speaker 1: her and the fact that she was sold to these
- 9:25Speaker 1: sick bastards, Jean-Luc Brunel and Jeffrey Epstein, boy, oh boy,
- 9:29Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. Is there a darker fate for
- 9:31Speaker 1: somebody to be subjected to? and I'm very, very interested
- 9:36Speaker 1: in hearing Nadia's story someday when she decides to tell it.
- 9:41Speaker 1: The USVI government sued JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank in December,
- 9:46Speaker 1: accusing the banks of turning a blind eye to Epstein
- 9:49Speaker 1: sex trafficking of underage girls, despite a myriad of red flags.
- 9:55Speaker 1: Both banks deny wrongdoing. The amended complaint from the USVI
- 9:59Speaker 1: was Epstein had a private island, says that JP Morgan
- 10:03Speaker 1: obstructed investigations into Epstein and its relationship to the bank.
- 10:09Speaker 1: Executives emailed internally about his abuse during the course of
- 10:13Speaker 1: their relationship with him, which ran from 1998 to 2013.
- 10:19Speaker 1: including after he served 15 months for soliciting an underage
- 10:23Speaker 1: girl for sex in 2008. Imagine that's the charge, soliciting
- 10:29Speaker 1: an underage girl for sex. You mean trying to have
- 10:32Speaker 1: sex with a minor. Whoever wrote that law, my guess
- 10:40Speaker 1: is some sick-ass degenerate politician down in Florida, thought it
- 10:44Speaker 1: would be a good idea to say that, you know,
- 10:46Speaker 1: if you look for sex with a child prostitute, it's
- 10:49Speaker 1: just like solicitation from an adult prostitute. When in reality,
- 10:54Speaker 1: we all know that's not the case. So that should
- 10:56Speaker 1: have never even been on the books. I don't even
- 10:58Speaker 1: know how that's a law, honestly. But thankfully, they did
- 11:01Speaker 1: away with that law down in Florida. So at least
- 11:03Speaker 1: that's a little bit of progress. They included AirDose. The
- 11:08Speaker 1: lawsuit is running parallel to a similar claim by a
- 11:11Speaker 1: woman called Jane Doe 1, which has made numerous allegations
- 11:15Speaker 1: against Jess Staley, the former boss of J.P.
- 11:18Speaker 2: Morgan.
- 11:19Speaker 1: Court documents allege that between 2008 and 2012, Staley exchanged
- 11:25Speaker 1: around 1,200 emails with Epstein from his J.P. Morgan email account.
- 11:31Speaker 1: And by the way, Judge Rakoff has ruled that that
- 11:34Speaker 1: the accuser that is suing the banks is going to
- 11:37Speaker 1: have to make their identity known. And I'm not really
- 11:39Speaker 1: a big fan of that, considering the circumstances that surround
- 11:43Speaker 1: this case. But I think that each one of these
- 11:46Speaker 1: kinds of situations should be unique. It should be decided
- 11:50Speaker 1: by a judge on a case-to-case basis. But I disagree
- 11:54Speaker 1: with Judge Rakoff's decision here to make the accuser, at
- 11:57Speaker 1: least at this point, release their name. because you know
- 12:00Speaker 1: they're going to get intimidated, 100%, without a doubt. The
- 12:05Speaker 1: banker allegedly visited Epstein's private island in the Caribbean while
- 12:09Speaker 1: the pedophile was in prison for having sex with underage girls.
- 12:13Speaker 1: Staley is accused of making suggestive references to Disney characters
- 12:18Speaker 1: in the emails, including one from 2010, in which he says,
- 12:24Speaker 1: Staley's lawyers have denied wrongdoing and denied... He used code
- 12:28Speaker 1: words with Epstein. No, they were actually talking about the cartoons.
- 12:32Speaker 1: Two grown-ass men, one of them a known pedophile, they
- 12:35Speaker 1: were talking about actual Disney princesses, folks. That's what they
- 12:39Speaker 1: want you to believe. The question is, are you buying
- 12:43Speaker 1: the bullshit? In a motion to dismiss J.P. Morgan, called
- 12:47Speaker 1: the USVI complaint, as a masterclass in deflection that seeks
- 12:52Speaker 1: to hold J.P. Morgan responsible for not sleuthing out Epstein's crimes,
- 12:57Speaker 1: over a decade ago.
- 12:58Speaker 2: They're all responsible.
- 13:00Speaker 1: U.S. Virgin Islands as well. I won't beat that dead horse.
- 13:04Speaker 1: You all know how I feel about that by now.
- 13:06Speaker 1: But they're all responsible. And somehow they all end up
- 13:10Speaker 1: still getting a fat paycheck at the end of the day.
- 13:13Speaker 1: It's amazing, isn't it? All of these women and girls
- 13:16Speaker 1: who were abused by Epstein, knowingly abused by Epstein, and
- 13:20Speaker 1: how many of them haven't received a dollar or will
- 13:24Speaker 1: never receive a dollar and forget about justice. We know
- 13:27Speaker 1: that that's not coming in this case anytime soon. The
- 13:30Speaker 1: DOJ has made that abundantly clear by not going after
- 13:33Speaker 1: any of the associates of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
- 13:38Speaker 1: There's a whole host of people that have been pointed
- 13:41Speaker 1: out as taking part in the actual abuse, and not
- 13:44Speaker 1: one of them has been brought in and talked to
- 13:48Speaker 1: under oath.
- 13:49Speaker 2: Not one of them.
- 13:50Speaker 1: So how can anyone take anything that happens when it
- 13:53Speaker 1: comes to this investigation specifically seriously at this point? We
- 13:58Speaker 1: can't even get a straight answer about what happened on
- 14:01Speaker 1: the day Jeffrey Epstein died. They refused to release any information.
- 14:05Speaker 1: They refused to release anything. No transparency whatsoever. And accountability?
- 14:10Speaker 1: That's not even a word that the people over at
- 14:12Speaker 1: the DOJ, at least speaking internally, know how to use.
- 14:17Speaker 1: because nobody ever is held responsible for the bullshit. All right, folks, well,
- 14:21Speaker 1: that's going to do it for this one. All of
- 14:23Speaker 1: the information that goes with the episode can be found
- 14:27Speaker 1: in the description box. What's up, everyone, and welcome back
- 14:31Speaker 1: to the Epstein Chronicles.
- 14:34Speaker 2: The J.P.
- 14:35Speaker 1: Morgan report that it put together about Jeffrey Epstein and
- 14:39Speaker 1: his relationship with Jess Staley is a lot more damning
- 14:44Speaker 1: than they let on. And for those of us who
- 14:46Speaker 1: have been following along, this is no surprise. But for
- 14:50Speaker 1: the rest of the world, who thinks this is some
- 14:52Speaker 1: gigantic conspiracy theory, well, they're in for a big old shock.
- 14:57Speaker 1: Today's article is from the Daily Mail. Headline, Revealed. JPMorgan Review,
- 15:03Speaker 1: of its ties to Jeffrey Epstein, found the pedophile invited
- 15:07Speaker 1: one-time executive Jess Staley to meetings with foreign government officials
- 15:12Speaker 1: and offered to help him with his daughter's application. to
- 15:15Speaker 1: Columbia University. What's with all of these rich people letting
- 15:18Speaker 1: their kids hang out with Epstein or having Epstein come
- 15:21Speaker 1: in and sign in for their kids and help them
- 15:24Speaker 1: get into college? You have all this money. You have
- 15:27Speaker 1: all of the power, all of the connections. Why do
- 15:30Speaker 1: you need a pedophile to be your middleman? And that
- 15:34Speaker 1: question goes out to not only Jeff Staley, but to
- 15:37Speaker 1: people like Leon Black, Stacey Plaskett, Cecile DeJong, and the
- 15:42Speaker 1: rest of them. Today's article was authored by Alex Hammer.
- 15:48Speaker 1: JP Morgan's ties to Jeffrey Epstein have been laid bare
- 15:51Speaker 1: in a bombshell new report as the bank continues to
- 15:54Speaker 1: try and quash a lawsuit that looks to link it
- 15:57Speaker 1: to the late financier, pedophiles, Caribbean-based sex trafficking ring. The
- 16:03Speaker 1: 22-page internal report, prepared by the bank after Epstein's arrest
- 16:07Speaker 1: in 2019, reportedly showed how the sex offender would regularly
- 16:13Speaker 1: provide business advice to then-executive Jeff Staley, as well as
- 16:17Speaker 1: personal help using his high-profile connections. At the time, Staley,
- 16:23Speaker 1: who left his job as chairman of the investment banking
- 16:26Speaker 1: unit of JPMorgan Chase in 2013, was tasked with managing
- 16:30Speaker 1: Epstein's multi-million dollar account.
- 16:33Speaker 2: So he was Epstein's go-to guy, right? His man, his plug,
- 16:36Speaker 2: his hookup. Yo!
- 16:38Speaker 1: And when you have a client that's wetting your beak
- 16:45Speaker 1: the way Epstein was, you want to jump through hoops
- 16:48Speaker 1: to make sure that this dude is getting taken care of.
- 16:50Speaker 1: And that's exactly what Jess Staley did. The only problem
- 16:54Speaker 1: is that Jess Staley is a banking official and not
- 16:57Speaker 1: a host in Las Vegas at a nightclub. The unreleased report,
- 17:02Speaker 1: obtained Monday by the Wall Street Journal, may suggest Staley's
- 17:05Speaker 1: involvement with Epstein goes deeper than just a and even
- 17:08Speaker 1: saw the pedophile offer help with an application one of
- 17:12Speaker 1: Staley's daughters sent to Columbia University. Perhaps most sensational of
- 17:17Speaker 1: the findings, though, are the notes that show how Epstein
- 17:20Speaker 1: invited Staley to meetings with various senior officials in foreign governments,
- 17:25Speaker 1: including that of Dubai and the United Kingdom. Well, we
- 17:28Speaker 1: all know what goes on over in places like Dubai
- 17:32Speaker 1: when they bring over those Instagram models. So is anyone
- 17:35Speaker 1: shocked that a guy like Epstein would love hanging out
- 17:38Speaker 1: in a place like Dubai? And as far as having
- 17:40Speaker 1: access to top dogs in the UK, in Dubai, in
- 17:45Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia, it's just par for the course. It's no
- 17:48Speaker 1: different than when he was here in America. Look, money talks, folks. What,
- 17:52Speaker 1: you think only America has a class of corrupt elites? Unfortunately,
- 17:57Speaker 1: whenever you find a power structure of any sort, you're
- 18:00Speaker 1: going to have corruption. And you're going to have people
- 18:03Speaker 1: who are using their positions of power to make their
- 18:07Speaker 1: lives a lot easier and their lives a lot better,
- 18:10Speaker 1: while at the same time shitting on you and me.
- 18:12Speaker 1: But the fact that he's palling around with politicians in
- 18:16Speaker 1: Dubai and in the UK, that's not a shock to anybody.
- 18:19Speaker 1: We all know the score here. But what I think
- 18:22Speaker 1: is happening is that the Unsullied, the people who really
- 18:25Speaker 1: don't know too much about this story, They're having the
- 18:28Speaker 1: wool pulled back a little bit, and they're getting to
- 18:31Speaker 1: see just how corrupt some of this shit really was.
- 18:34Speaker 1: You know, a lot of people think it's a conspiracy
- 18:36Speaker 1: theory that Jeffrey Epstein was hanging out with the most
- 18:40Speaker 1: powerful people in the world. They think that's, you know,
- 18:43Speaker 1: a bunch of hyperbole. But the fact is, it's not.
- 18:46Speaker 1: When you have pictures of ex-presidents in dresses and pumps
- 18:50Speaker 1: hanging on your wall, and then you help that very
- 18:53Speaker 1: same ex-president start his foundation... It's not hyperbole.
- 18:58Speaker 2: It's fact.
- 19:00Speaker 1: The new information dump serves as the latest development in
- 19:03Speaker 1: a case filed by the U.S. Virgin Islands that contends
- 19:06Speaker 1: the New York-based bank knew about Epstein's behavior for years
- 19:11Speaker 1: and even aided by turning a blind eye to the
- 19:14Speaker 1: sex fiend's sordid exploits.
- 19:16Speaker 2: They're not wrong about that either.
- 19:18Speaker 1: As I've said several times, both things are correct here
- 19:22Speaker 1: and both allegations are true, meaning the U.S. Virgin Islands,
- 19:25Speaker 1: they were complicit. JP Morgan, we all know they were complicit.
- 19:30Speaker 1: We all know how I feel about the financial sector
- 19:32Speaker 1: as a whole.
- 19:33Speaker 2: So there's no way.
- 19:35Speaker 1: I think JP Morgan should be let off here. But
- 19:37Speaker 1: that certainly doesn't mean that I think the U.S. Virgin
- 19:40Speaker 1: Islands shouldn't shoulder their share of the blame as well.
- 19:43Speaker 1: The bank recently settled a similar suit brought by an
- 19:47Speaker 1: unnamed woman on behalf of several of Epstein's victims, forking
- 19:51Speaker 1: over $ 290 million in the process. The evidence brought by
- 19:55Speaker 1: both parties was enough to sway a Manhattan judge to
- 19:59Speaker 1: rule the cases could go forward and order the firm
- 20:02Speaker 1: in March to hand over any records involving CEO Jamie
- 20:06Speaker 1: Dimon and ex-executive Staley in the process. The pair, former
- 20:11Speaker 1: close friends, who hold positions of power during Epstein's crimes
- 20:15Speaker 1: at his island compound, have since waged legal war against
- 20:19Speaker 1: one another, with Diamond, 67, insisting Staley, 66, knowingly concealed
- 20:25Speaker 1: information about Epstein's account. This would be like El Chapo
- 20:30Speaker 1: pointing the finger at El Mayo saying, look, he's a
- 20:32Speaker 1: drug dealer, not me. To act like Jamie Diamond, didn't
- 20:37Speaker 1: know what was going on here is just straight-up fantasyland shit.
- 20:41Speaker 1: There's no way I can ever believe that the man
- 20:44Speaker 1: running J.P. Morgan had no idea who Epstein was or
- 20:48Speaker 1: what he was up to. Now, I'm not saying that
- 20:51Speaker 1: Jamie Dimon had a full accounting that Epstein was out
- 20:54Speaker 1: here raping kids, but to act like you never heard
- 20:56Speaker 1: of the guy's name before or what he was up
- 20:58Speaker 1: to when the rest of us had on TV, in
- 21:01Speaker 1: the news, and you're some kind of big shot running J.P.
- 21:05Speaker 2: Morgan?
- 21:06Speaker 1: That's very hard for me to believe, and I don't
- 21:09Speaker 1: think anybody else out here is believing it either. And
- 21:12Speaker 1: you notice, once the chips are down and the walls
- 21:15Speaker 1: are closing in, how quickly these people are willing to
- 21:18Speaker 1: throw each other under the bus. The unreleased report serves
- 21:22Speaker 1: as the bank's latest attempt to prove to the court
- 21:25Speaker 1: that this is, in fact, the case as it pursues
- 21:28Speaker 1: its own suit against Staley. It alleges Staley misled them
- 21:33Speaker 1: as to continued actions of Epstein While the Virgin Islands
- 21:36Speaker 1: continues to maintain, the high-powered executive, who left his CEO
- 21:40Speaker 1: job at Barclays in 2021, knew about Epstein's trafficking of
- 21:45Speaker 1: women and teenage girls on their island. Not only that,
- 21:49Speaker 1: he's accused of taking part. So let's not forget that. However,
- 21:52Speaker 1: does that mean that the Virgin Islands is entitled to
- 21:55Speaker 1: some of this money? And if that's the case, what
- 21:58Speaker 1: about the state of New York? What about the state
- 22:00Speaker 1: of Florida? What about the state of New Mexico? Abuse
- 22:03Speaker 1: happened there as well. So should the states sue Jeffrey
- 22:08Speaker 1: Epstein's estate as well to get a couple of bucks?
- 22:11Speaker 1: That would be ridiculous considering these states, these municipalities, they're
- 22:17Speaker 1: the ones who let this occur. They're the ones who
- 22:19Speaker 1: didn't perform the proper kind of investigation. So how in
- 22:23Speaker 1: the world should they be entitled to any money? And
- 22:26Speaker 1: using the same parameters, how in the hell is the U.S.
- 22:29Speaker 1: Virgin Islands thinking that they're going to get some more
- 22:32Speaker 1: dough here? The bank also claims Staley was the unnamed
- 22:36Speaker 1: executive identified in the aforementioned Epstein's accuser recently settled suit,
- 22:42Speaker 1: which accused the banker of engaging in assaults along with Epstein.
- 22:47Speaker 1: So this guy, again, another person being credibly accused who's
- 22:51Speaker 1: not facing criminal penalties. If it was you, if it
- 22:54Speaker 1: was me, anyone we know, they'd be facing criminal penalties
- 22:58Speaker 1: if somebody said, hey, look, this man sexually assaulted me.
- 23:03Speaker 1: And not only that, but there's obviously enough here to
- 23:06Speaker 1: go after him financially under these civil suits, right? So
- 23:10Speaker 1: you mean to tell me there's not enough legally to
- 23:13Speaker 1: at the very least open an investigation into what happened?
- 23:17Speaker 1: Because if he was out here raping people with Jeffrey Epstein,
- 23:20Speaker 1: I would think that those victims deserve some justice, no?
- 23:24Speaker 1: Staley's lawyers denied the allegations against him and told the
- 23:28Speaker 1: Journal that their client, who left the bank in 2013
- 23:31Speaker 1: for a short-lived stint at Barclays, regrets his relationship with Epstein.
- 23:36Speaker 2: Short-lived, huh?
- 23:38Speaker 1: Pretty long stint at Barclays. And not only that, let's
- 23:41Speaker 1: not forget that the Barclays board backed Jeff Staley and
- 23:45Speaker 1: refused to fire him during the pandemic simply to make
- 23:49Speaker 1: sure that they didn't lose out on any more money.
- 23:52Speaker 1: So once again, profits over people. In the report unveiled
- 23:55Speaker 1: on Monday, penned immediately after Epstein's second and last arrest,
- 24:00Speaker 1: JPMorgan staffers reportedly remarked how Epstein had appeared to be
- 24:05Speaker 1: forming relationships with senior executives and officials from various foreign
- 24:10Speaker 1: governments before referring those figures to Staley and the bank
- 24:14Speaker 1: for prospective business deals. Some notable figures named in the
- 24:18Speaker 1: journal's report included Dubai Sultan Ahmed bin Sulaym and British
- 24:24Speaker 1: politician Peter Mandelson, both of whom engaged in regular correspondence
- 24:29Speaker 1: with Epstein after his 2006 arrest in Florida. They don't
- 24:34Speaker 1: care if you're a child molester. How many times do
- 24:37Speaker 1: we have to say this? And how many times do
- 24:39Speaker 1: they have to prove us right? Bin Sulayem, the CEO
- 24:44Speaker 1: of prominent ports operator DP World, made several visits to
- 24:48Speaker 1: Epstein's Manhattan townhouse between 2011 and 2014, according to JP
- 24:53Speaker 1: Morgan meetings, that were only made possible by an email
- 24:57Speaker 1: introduction from Epstein. According to the journal, a message penned
- 25:02Speaker 1: in December 2009 saw Epstein tell Staley how to conduct
- 25:06Speaker 1: himself around the Emirati businessman during these meetings, reportedly saying,
- 25:11Speaker 1: Sultan is laying the groundwork for you to establish a
- 25:14Speaker 1: serious presence. JP Morgan's reputation in the region is poor.
- 25:19Speaker 1: The financier warned roughly a year after Epstein was sentenced
- 25:23Speaker 1: to 18 months in jail for a similar sex ring
- 25:25Speaker 1: in Florida. So he's out here talking about how JP
- 25:29Speaker 1: Morgan and their business model in the Middle East is
- 25:32Speaker 1: not trusted and how Jeffrey Epstein can help bridge that gap.
- 25:37Speaker 1: Who cares if he molested children? Who cares if he
- 25:40Speaker 1: abused women?
- 25:41Speaker 2: No big deal. We're trying to get rich here, folks.
- 25:43Speaker 2: Get out of the way.
- 25:45Speaker 1: However, under a secret arrangement, The U.S. Attorney's Office agreed
- 25:49Speaker 1: not to prosecute Epstein for federal crimes, after which the
- 25:52Speaker 1: disgraced banker posed for a photo with Epstein, former J.P.
- 25:56Speaker 1: Morgan Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, and Microsoft CEO Bill Gates,
- 26:02Speaker 1: seemingly in celebration at Epstein's Manhattan home. And we've known
- 26:07Speaker 1: those pictures have been around forever, and these emails just
- 26:10Speaker 1: fill in some gaps, right? They confirm what we've already known. Moreover...
- 26:16Speaker 1: Staley sensationally visited Epstein in prison after his 2019 conviction
- 26:20Speaker 1: for prostitution in the U.S. Virgin Islands, after which he
- 26:25Speaker 1: hung himself before being incarcerated, allegedly. The 2019 report also
- 26:31Speaker 1: shows email conversations set in 2010 between Epstein, Staley, and Mandelson,
- 26:37Speaker 1: a member of the Second Chamber of the U.K. Parliament
- 26:40Speaker 1: and ex-Cabinet member. He left office later that year after
- 26:44Speaker 1: the Labour Party lost the general election. According to the journal,
- 26:49Speaker 1: the document in question involved J.P. Morgan's efforts to purchase
- 26:52Speaker 1: the Royal Bank of Scotland's stake in Sempra Energy and
- 26:56Speaker 1: the mining deal in the Congo. And I'm sure that
- 26:59Speaker 1: that would have been ethical, huh? Because, you know, everybody
- 27:02Speaker 1: who goes to Africa, they mine ethically and they take
- 27:05Speaker 1: care of the natives, right? Just like down in South America.
- 27:08Speaker 1: Said nobody ever. Have you looked at some of these
- 27:10Speaker 1: illegal mining operations that are being run by China and
- 27:14Speaker 1: other countries? I mean, we have to be able to
- 27:16Speaker 1: get those quote-unquote cheap iPhones, right? How do you think
- 27:20Speaker 1: that happens? Well, it happens by exploiting the third world
- 27:24Speaker 1: and people like Epstein and JP Morgan being at the
- 27:27Speaker 1: controls while it happens. In a statement to the Journal,
- 27:31Speaker 1: the 69-year-old politician said he very, very much regrets ever
- 27:36Speaker 1: having been introduced to Epstein and that he never had
- 27:39Speaker 1: any kind of professional or business relationship with Epstein in
- 27:43Speaker 1: any form. This is what they all say. They're all
- 27:46Speaker 1: reading off of the same script. The report, meanwhile, insists
- 27:50Speaker 1: that not just Staley, but the bank's current head of
- 27:53Speaker 1: asset and wealth management, Mary Erdos, had regular communication with
- 27:58Speaker 1: Epstein related to the certain strategic initiatives and business proposals
- 28:03Speaker 1: starting in 2011. The document reportedly claims that several of
- 28:09Speaker 1: these messages were personal in nature, with the lion's share
- 28:12Speaker 1: of the correspondents coming between Staley and Epstein, who regularly
- 28:17Speaker 1: discussed women and referred to themselves as family. That's what
- 28:21Speaker 1: you say to your boys that you've, you know, shed
- 28:24Speaker 1: blood with. Your homies you grew up with. Oh, this
- 28:28Speaker 1: is my family. This is my brother from another mother.
- 28:31Speaker 1: We've been homies for 30 years. But Epstein and Staley,
- 28:35Speaker 1: running around and calling themselves brothers and family, the whole nine...
- 28:40Speaker 1: Why should we not believe what they're telling us here?
- 28:42Speaker 1: Should we believe that they're just acquaintances? Or should we
- 28:45Speaker 1: take them at their word and look at their relationship
- 28:49Speaker 1: in a different light? And for most of us, that's
- 28:52Speaker 1: a rhetorical question because we understand how deep this relationship
- 28:55Speaker 1: was and that it was much more than just business.
- 29:00Speaker 1: In one July 2010 email exchange, Staley reportedly wrote to Epstein.
- 29:04Speaker 2: That was fun. Say hi to Snow White.
- 29:07Speaker 1: In response, Epstein reportedly wrote, What character would you like next?
- 29:12Speaker 1: To which Staley replied, Beauty and the Beast. In 2011,
- 29:17Speaker 1: the pair seemed to engage in an exchange that referenced
- 29:21Speaker 1: Epstein's 2008 conviction in Florida, with Staley telling his high-profile client,
- 29:26Speaker 1: You have paid a price for what has been accused.
- 29:29Speaker 1: But we know what you have done for us, and
- 29:31Speaker 1: we know what he has done for you, Jess Staley,
- 29:34Speaker 1: you sick, disgusting animal. We count you as one of
- 29:37Speaker 1: our deepest friends and most. honest of people. Imagine blowing
- 29:42Speaker 1: that kind of smoke up Epstein's ass. You're one of
- 29:44Speaker 1: the most honest people? Okay, sure, yeah, one of the
- 29:47Speaker 1: most honest people, and Bernie Madoff would have safeguarded your money.
- 29:52Speaker 1: The report further claimed that Epstein even offered to help
- 29:55Speaker 1: one of Staley's daughters, Alexa, apply to several graduate schools
- 29:59Speaker 1: including Columbia University. Epstein reportedly assured Staley he would get
- 30:05Speaker 1: in touch with various Columbia officials and connect Staley to
- 30:08Speaker 1: the university's president. In response to those claims, a spokesperson
- 30:13Speaker 1: for the New York Ivy League institution stated, there was
- 30:16Speaker 1: no meeting between the president and Staley, nor did the
- 30:19Speaker 1: president know Epstein, then or later. There is no factual
- 30:23Speaker 1: basis for these assertions. No, they just made it up
- 30:26Speaker 1: in the emails. Jeff Staley said, And Jeffrey Epstein were
- 30:30Speaker 1: just lying to each other back and forth in this thread.
- 30:34Speaker 2: Because we know.
- 30:34Speaker 1: That the hallowed halls of higher academia would never accept
- 30:38Speaker 1: something like this happening, right?
- 30:40Speaker 2: Right?
- 30:43Speaker 1: Dailymail.com has reached out to Alexis Daly, who graduated Columbia
- 30:47Speaker 1: four years later, with a doctor of philosophy and physics
- 30:51Speaker 1: for comment. I'm not a big fan of, you know,
- 30:54Speaker 1: sins of the father, but to get clarification here, I
- 30:57Speaker 1: don't think it's a bad idea to reach out to
- 31:00Speaker 1: Alexa to try and see what happened. The report which
- 31:03Speaker 1: claims to show what the bank knew about its ties
- 31:06Speaker 1: to Epstein is now being used by the bank as
- 31:09Speaker 1: it continues to face off with the government of the
- 31:12Speaker 1: Virgin Islands in court and could soon be made public
- 31:15Speaker 1: as proceedings persist.
- 31:17Speaker 2: I can't wait for that. More documents for us to
- 31:20Speaker 2: pour through? Perfect.
- 31:22Speaker 1: The island is where Epstein kept a home and is
- 31:25Speaker 1: said to have abused dozens of girls. Last November, Jane
- 31:29Speaker 1: Doe sued JP Morgan, alleging the bank secretly presided over
- 31:33Speaker 1: Epstein's trafficking empire on the island, while keeping him as
- 31:37Speaker 1: a client for 14 years. In her complaint, Doe said
- 31:41Speaker 1: a powerful financial executive who was friends with Epstein had
- 31:45Speaker 1: sexually assaulted her but declined to name him out of fear.
- 31:50Speaker 2: In the U.S.
- 31:50Speaker 1: Virgin Islands suit, the Caribbean territory has claimed at least
- 31:54Speaker 1: one J.P. Morgan executive knew about Epstein's trafficking of women
- 31:58Speaker 1: and teenage girls. Well, how many government officials in the U.S.
- 32:02Speaker 1: Virgin Islands at the time knew as well? That's the
- 32:06Speaker 1: uncomfortable question that not enough people are asking.
- 32:10Speaker 2: J.P.
- 32:10Speaker 1: Morgan maintains that Staley, who has nearly four decades of
- 32:13Speaker 1: experience in banking and the financial sphere, concealed such information
- 32:18Speaker 1: from the bank. Like the case involving the victims, U.S.
- 32:22Speaker 1: Virgin Islands is asking for an undisclosed amount of money
- 32:26Speaker 1: from the bank for keeping Epstein on as a client
- 32:29Speaker 1: and missing red flags about his more than a decade
- 32:32Speaker 1: of misconduct.
- 32:33Speaker 2: The U.S.
- 32:34Speaker 1: Territory has called Diamond a likely source of relevant and
- 32:37Speaker 1: unique information about why J.P. Morgan kept Epstein on as
- 32:42Speaker 1: a client, even after he was arrested in 2006 and
- 32:46Speaker 1: later indicted by a grand jury for taking part in
- 32:49Speaker 1: a child prostitution ring in Palm Beach, Florida.
- 32:53Speaker 2: Yeah, hell of a guy. Let's keep him on board.
- 32:55Speaker 1: Let's go to his island and dip our nuts in
- 32:58Speaker 1: his jacuzzi.
- 33:00Speaker 2: A spokesman for the U.S.
- 33:01Speaker 1: Virgin Islands government said of the recent settlement, we are
- 33:04Speaker 1: gratified to hear about the settlement that will provide victims
- 33:08Speaker 1: of Jeffrey Epstein some compensation for JPMorgan Chase's role in
- 33:13Speaker 1: facilitating Epstein's crimes against them.
- 33:16Speaker 2: The U.S.
- 33:16Speaker 1: Virgin Islands will continue to proceed with its enforcement action
- 33:20Speaker 1: to ensure full accountability for J.P. Morgan's violations of law
- 33:24Speaker 1: and prevent the bank from assisting and profiting from human
- 33:27Speaker 1: trafficking in the future. So what are you going to
- 33:30Speaker 1: do to yourself? That's the question. Over here on this
- 33:34Speaker 1: ivory tower, talking down to everybody, running your yap. Meanwhile,
- 33:39Speaker 1: you can't even control what's going on in your own territory.
- 33:42Speaker 1: Maybe somebody should ask Stacey Plaskett what's going on. Maybe
- 33:45Speaker 1: Stacey Plaskett has some more information for us to share.
- 33:48Speaker 1: That is, if you can get her off of the TV,
- 33:51Speaker 1: making a fool of herself. Imagine having Stacey Plaskett on
- 33:55Speaker 1: for an interview and not asking one single Epstein-related question.
- 34:00Speaker 1: And you call yourself a journalist. And we should take
- 34:03Speaker 1: you seriously.
- 34:04Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, sure.
- 34:06Speaker 1: All of those news networks are the same nonsense. All
- 34:09Speaker 1: those talking heads are doing the same thing, except they're
- 34:12Speaker 1: trying to ignite anger and fear from On the other
- 34:15Speaker 1: side of the issue. And that's how it always is
- 34:18Speaker 1: on TV. And that's why I don't bother with it.
- 34:20Speaker 1: But the fact that you're going to have somebody like
- 34:22Speaker 1: Plaskett on TV or Hillary Clinton on TV and not
- 34:26Speaker 1: ask one single Epstein related question tells me everything I
- 34:30Speaker 1: need to know about you as a journalist and the
- 34:32Speaker 1: institution that you're working for.
- 34:34Speaker 2: The U.S.
- 34:35Speaker 1: Virgin Islands is committed to protecting women and girls who
- 34:39Speaker 1: could otherwise become victims going forward. Okay, so where's the
- 34:42Speaker 1: criminal case? How come nobody has been indicted? How come
- 34:46Speaker 1: you haven't impaneled a grand jury and brought anybody in?
- 34:51Speaker 1: Epstein was a client at the bank between 1998 and 2013,
- 34:56Speaker 1: seven years after he was arrested and convicted of using
- 34:59Speaker 1: underage prostitutes in Palm Beach, Florida. So let's put that
- 35:03Speaker 1: in real terms, raping children in Palm Beach, Florida. Bank
- 35:07Speaker 1: employees were concerned about Epstein's large cash withdrawals, some of
- 35:10Speaker 1: which were used to pay underage girls in exchange for sex.
- 35:14Speaker 1: but he was allowed to remain a client for years.
- 35:18Speaker 1: According to depositions that were part of the lawsuit, he
- 35:21Speaker 1: would regularly withdraw $ 40, 000 to $ 80, 000 a month. The withdrawals
- 35:27Speaker 1: rang alarm bells among compliance officials, but he explained them
- 35:32Speaker 1: away by claiming they were for fuel and landing fees
- 35:35Speaker 1: for his private plane. I guess your ATM isn't working?
- 35:38Speaker 1: Did the Amex Black get declined, Jeffrey Epstein? Dude's out
- 35:42Speaker 1: here talking about how he has to use cash. What
- 35:44Speaker 1: are you, Pablo Escobar? Epstein ran much of his criminal
- 35:48Speaker 1: activities out of his compound on Little St. James Island,
- 35:51Speaker 1: a private island itself he owned off the coast that
- 35:55Speaker 1: falls in the Virgin Islands jurisdiction. After the full extent
- 35:59Speaker 1: of Epstein's crimes became known in 2019, Staley initially claimed
- 36:04Speaker 1: He and Epstein were little more than acquaintances tied by business.
- 36:08Speaker 1: That's a lie, and it's been proved to be a
- 36:11Speaker 1: lie over and over again, and it's just like the
- 36:13Speaker 1: rest of these clowns. One of the biggest tells that
- 36:16Speaker 1: they actually had a relationship with Epstein is when they
- 36:19Speaker 1: tell you that it was only business-related. Later, he admitted
- 36:23Speaker 1: to having a close professional relationship that he established while
- 36:27Speaker 1: running J.P. Morgan's private bank and asset management division from
- 36:31Speaker 1: 2000 to 2009. Staley became the CEO of Barclays in 2015,
- 36:37Speaker 1: but later stepped down amidst a probe into whether he
- 36:41Speaker 1: had concealed the extent of his relationship with Epstein. While
- 36:45Speaker 1: a high-ranking official at JP Morgan, Staley famously visited Epstein
- 36:50Speaker 1: in prison after his conviction for prostitution in 2008. Imagine
- 36:56Speaker 1: going to see this dude in prison and then trying
- 36:58Speaker 1: to tell the rest of us it was just a
- 36:59Speaker 1: business relationship. The bank has denied Staley actually went to
- 37:04Speaker 1: the prison, saying instead Epstein visited Staley at his office
- 37:08Speaker 1: during a work release for his 18-month prison sentence. Epstein
- 37:13Speaker 1: died in custody while awaiting a sex trafficking trial. In
- 37:17Speaker 1: his absence, the only person to have faced criminal prosecution
- 37:20Speaker 1: over his crimes is Ghislaine Maxwell. She is currently serving
- 37:24Speaker 1: a 20-year prison sentence after being convicted of facilitating the abuse.
- 37:29Speaker 1: And there's a lot more to this story, folks. We've
- 37:32Speaker 1: only heard a little bit, the very tip of the iceberg,
- 37:35Speaker 1: about what was really going on with J.P. Morgan, with
- 37:38Speaker 1: the financial sector, and their best buddy, Jeffrey Epstein. So,
- 37:43Speaker 1: we'll keep on it, of course, and as new information
- 37:45Speaker 1: becomes available, we'll get it added to the catalog, and
- 37:48Speaker 1: we'll make sure that we expose these scumbags like a
- 37:51Speaker 1: pair of dog nuts. Alright, folks, that's going to do
- 37:54Speaker 1: it for this one. All of the information that goes
- 37:57Speaker 1: with the episode can be found in the description box.
- 38:02Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
- 38:06Speaker 1: So JP Morgan is seeking files from the Manhattan DA's
- 38:10Speaker 1: office in its Jeffrey Epstein lawsuits. And I find that
- 38:14Speaker 1: laughable considering that the New York Prosecutor's Office let Jeffrey
- 38:19Speaker 1: Epstein off the hook every single step of the way.
- 38:22Speaker 1: Just go ask Cy Vance about Jeffrey Epstein. And ask
- 38:25Speaker 1: them why they argue that Jeffrey Epstein shouldn't be considered
- 38:29Speaker 1: the worst of the worst when it comes to sex offenders.
- 38:33Speaker 1: Because that's the argument the New York Attorney's Office made
- 38:36Speaker 1: on behalf of Jeffrey Epstein. So other people might have forgotten.
- 38:41Speaker 1: I certainly haven't. And I know that those of you
- 38:43Speaker 1: out there that are following this case, you haven't forgotten either.
- 38:47Speaker 1: And while I'm ranting real quick, I might as well
- 38:49Speaker 1: rant about all of the snake oil salesmen that pop
- 38:52Speaker 1: up on Twitter, basically on a daily basis, talking about Epstein.
- 38:57Speaker 1: These people don't know the first thing about the first thing,
- 39:00Speaker 1: yet they get up there and talk about how they're
- 39:02Speaker 1: going to expose the whole entire enterprise. Meanwhile, those same
- 39:06Speaker 1: people talking about, oh, I'm going to expose this or
- 39:09Speaker 1: expose that, couldn't expose themselves at a nudist festival. So
- 39:14Speaker 1: save the bullshit, all right? And stop trying to draw
- 39:16Speaker 1: traffic to your stupid Twitter site, your stupid Twitter handle,
- 39:20Speaker 1: by posting bullshit about Jeffrey Epstein that's not even real.
- 39:24Speaker 1: And the crazy part about that is, there's so much
- 39:27Speaker 1: salacious stuff that you could talk about that... it's insane
- 39:31Speaker 1: that people make stuff up. For example, when's the last
- 39:34Speaker 1: time you heard a hard-hitting piece about George Mitchell and
- 39:38Speaker 1: his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein? And if you don't know
- 39:41Speaker 1: who George Mitchell is, let me give you a little
- 39:43Speaker 1: crash course real quick. George John Mitchell is an American politician, diplomat,
- 39:49Speaker 1: and lawyer. A leading member of the Democratic Party, he
- 39:52Speaker 1: served as a United States Senator from Maine from 1980
- 39:56Speaker 1: to 1995 and as Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995.
- 40:03Speaker 1: After retiring from the Senate, Mitchell played a leading role
- 40:06Speaker 1: in negotiations for peace in Northern Ireland and in the
- 40:10Speaker 1: Middle East. He was appointed United States Special Envoy for
- 40:14Speaker 1: Northern Ireland in 1995 to 2001 by President Clinton and
- 40:20Speaker 1: as United States Special Envoy for the Middle East Peace
- 40:24Speaker 1: 2009-2011 by President Barack Obama. Mitchell was a primary architect
- 40:31Speaker 1: of the 1996 Mitchell Principles and the 1998 Good Friday
- 40:35Speaker 1: Agreement in Northern Ireland, and was the main investigator in
- 40:39Speaker 1: two Mitchell reports, one into the Arab-Israeli conflict, and one
- 40:44Speaker 1: on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball. Mitchell served
- 40:49Speaker 1: as the chairman of the Walt Disney Company from March
- 40:53Speaker 1: 2004 until January 2007, and later as chairman of the
- 40:58Speaker 1: international law firm DLA Piper. He was the chancellor of
- 41:02Speaker 1: Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, from 1999 to 2009.
- 41:08Speaker 1: Mitchell also served as a co-chair of the Housing Commission
- 41:12Speaker 1: at the Bipartisan Policy Center. And then when you scroll
- 41:16Speaker 1: down a little bit further here on his Wikipedia page,
- 41:20Speaker 1: there's one little blurb about his Epstein relationship.
- 41:23Speaker 2: You ready for it?
- 41:24Speaker 1: Virginia Roberts, a woman who has long claimed that disgraced
- 41:28Speaker 1: pedophile and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein forced her to
- 41:32Speaker 1: have sex with powerful men named Mitchell in documents unsealed
- 41:36Speaker 1: on August 9th, 2019, a day before Epstein's death by
- 41:41Speaker 1: a federal court in the Southern District of New York.
- 41:44Speaker 1: The papers included affidavits and depositions of key witnesses in
- 41:50Speaker 1: a 2015 lawsuit that Roberts filed against Epstein and his associate,
- 41:55Speaker 1: Ghislaine Maxwell. Roberts accused the two individuals of sex trafficking
- 42:00Speaker 1: her to high-profile individuals, including Mitchell, in the early 2000s
- 42:05Speaker 1: while she was underage. Mitchell denied ever having met or
- 42:09Speaker 1: spoken with Roberts and stated that he became aware of
- 42:12Speaker 1: Epstein's criminal prosecution, only through the media. On November 30th, 2021,
- 42:17Speaker 1: Epstein's former pilot, Larry Vesosky, named Mitchell as one of
- 42:22Speaker 1: the people he recalled flying on one of Epstein's private planes,
- 42:27Speaker 1: but claimed to have never seen sexual activity, nor indication
- 42:31Speaker 1: that such activity had taken place. Now remember, This whole
- 42:35Speaker 1: entire thing, as far as Epstein getting arrested the second
- 42:39Speaker 1: time around, was initiated because the Miami Herald ran a
- 42:43Speaker 1: piece because Alex Acosta got that job. Let's be very
- 42:46Speaker 1: honest about what happened. They were looking for dirt when
- 42:49Speaker 1: it came to Acosta and they found it. And that
- 42:52Speaker 1: dirt was his connection to Jeffrey Epstein. And Acosta, as
- 42:56Speaker 1: I've said a million times, should have lost his job,
- 43:00Speaker 1: should have had all the ridicule that was thrown on
- 43:02Speaker 1: top of him.
- 43:03Speaker 2: But why did it stop there?
- 43:05Speaker 1: Why did the legacy media stop at Alex Acosta when
- 43:08Speaker 1: we have names like George Mitchell, who is and was
- 43:12Speaker 1: way more influential than Alex Acosta could ever hope to be?
- 43:16Speaker 1: We're talking about the most powerful man in the Senate
- 43:18Speaker 1: at one point. Not only that, but a man who
- 43:21Speaker 1: is brokering these peace deals on a world stage. Then
- 43:25Speaker 1: you flip the script and you start looking at who
- 43:27Speaker 1: he was working for. And it all makes sense, right?
- 43:29Speaker 1: Considering all of the ties Clinton has to Jeffrey Epstein,
- 43:33Speaker 1: it all makes sense. But the legacy media refuses to
- 43:36Speaker 1: dig deep here. They refuse to really go after the
- 43:40Speaker 1: people that they should be going after. And so do
- 43:43Speaker 1: all of these dumbass Twitter accounts as well. They're too
- 43:46Speaker 1: busy trying to move some kind of political message with
- 43:49Speaker 1: their nonsense. Oh, Tom Hanks is eating children and now
- 43:52Speaker 1: he's locked in a basement in Guantanamo. Meanwhile, the dude's
- 43:55Speaker 1: doing movies and all of that stuff is provably false.
- 43:59Speaker 1: So why even bother with it? Because the time spent
- 44:02Speaker 1: on all of that dumbass bullshit conspiracy theory nonsense is
- 44:06Speaker 1: time spent away from the real scoundrels like George Mitchell
- 44:09Speaker 1: and Bill Richardson. So for all the Epstein experts out
- 44:13Speaker 1: there all of a sudden on Twitter talking about how
- 44:15Speaker 1: they're going to expose the whole entire enterprise, there's a
- 44:19Speaker 1: name to start with. And then let's see your work
- 44:21Speaker 1: with that name. And then maybe I'll give you another one.
- 44:24Speaker 1: I usually don't let that kind of shit bother me.
- 44:26Speaker 1: But lately, there has been like this push of a
- 44:29Speaker 1: bunch of goofballs. And I'm talking about people with like
- 44:32Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of followers making posts on Twitter that
- 44:36Speaker 1: are absolutely ridiculous. And it's taking people away from the
- 44:41Speaker 1: actualities that happened in this case. I don't know how
- 44:44Speaker 1: many times I have to say it. This is a
- 44:46Speaker 1: case where you don't need to make anything up. This
- 44:50Speaker 1: is salacious enough with the people involved that you don't
- 44:53Speaker 1: need to bring in all sorts of other people where
- 44:55Speaker 1: you don't have the evidence to prove that they did
- 44:58Speaker 1: all the things that you're trying to say that they did. Meanwhile,
- 45:01Speaker 1: George Mitchell has somebody who is pointing to him and saying,
- 45:05Speaker 1: he raped me. He was part of Jeffrey Epstein's criminal enterprise,
- 45:10Speaker 1: and he raped me. And nobody did anything about it.
- 45:13Speaker 1: Nobody's doing anything about it. So until action has been
- 45:16Speaker 1: taken on the people that have already been named, you
- 45:19Speaker 1: can miss me with all of the bullshit to try
- 45:21Speaker 1: and drive traffic to your dumbass Twitter page. Alright, so,
- 45:26Speaker 1: now that my rant is out of the way, we
- 45:28Speaker 1: can dive into this article from NBC News and see
- 45:31Speaker 1: what author Chloe Atkins has for us. Headline, JPMorgan.com. seeks
- 45:36Speaker 1: files from Manhattan D.A. in Jeffrey Epstein lawsuits. JPMorgan Chase
- 45:43Speaker 1: is seeking documents from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office
- 45:47Speaker 1: in lawsuits the bank faces over its relationship with a
- 45:51Speaker 1: late convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, a former client, according
- 45:56Speaker 1: to federal court records. Attorneys for Bragg, JPMorgan Chase, a
- 46:01Speaker 1: former senior executive, Jeff Staley, and And the plaintiffs in
- 46:04Speaker 1: the case attended a telephone conference before U.S. District Judge
- 46:09Speaker 1: Jed Rakoff on Tuesday. Rakoff instructed Bragg's office to provide
- 46:15Speaker 1: a so-called privilege log relating to documents sought by the
- 46:18Speaker 1: Wall Street giant by Friday. That's a list of documents
- 46:22Speaker 1: Bragg's office argues are privileged and not subject to discovery.
- 46:27Speaker 1: A spokesman for Bragg said a protective order is in place,
- 46:31Speaker 1: so we cannot comment on the nature of the requested documents.
- 46:35Speaker 1: They can never comment when it has to do with Epstein, huh?
- 46:38Speaker 1: Can you guys comment on his death yet, or do
- 46:40Speaker 1: you need some more time to figure out what happened,
- 46:42Speaker 1: you bunch of goofballs? JPMorgan Chase didn't immediately respond to
- 46:47Speaker 1: a request for comment. The bank faces two lawsuits filed
- 46:51Speaker 1: last year by the U.S. Virgin Islands and a woman
- 46:54Speaker 1: identified as Jane Doe No. 1, accusing it of having
- 46:58Speaker 1: facilitated Epstein's sex trafficking enterprise. JPMorgan knowingly, negligently, and unlawfully
- 47:05Speaker 1: provided and pulled the levers through which recruiters and victims
- 47:09Speaker 1: were paid and was indispensable to the operation and concealment
- 47:14Speaker 1: of the Epstein trafficking enterprise, the U.S. Virgin Islands alleged
- 47:18Speaker 1: in a complaint. The two suits seek monetary damages. JPMorgan
- 47:23Speaker 1: Chase has denied liability. Deutsche Bank agreed Wednesday to pay
- 47:27Speaker 1: $ 75 million to Epstein victims to settle a lawsuit claiming
- 47:32Speaker 1: It enabled Epstein's conduct. And it's crazy that these people
- 47:36Speaker 1: can get off the hook once again. They're basically aiding
- 47:40Speaker 1: and abetting sex trafficking and nobody gets in trouble. Oh yeah,
- 47:44Speaker 1: we're going to pay a fine. Oh, it's the biggest
- 47:46Speaker 1: fine ever paid out. Yeah, like it's going to stop them.
- 47:49Speaker 2: Is it a deterrent?
- 47:50Speaker 1: Until the next one, right? Yeah, it's the biggest fine
- 47:53Speaker 1: until the next scumbag uses their bank to molest a
- 47:57Speaker 1: bunch of girls. Then we'll hear about how big the
- 47:59Speaker 1: fine is again. It's all just a bunch of bullshit.
- 48:02Speaker 1: I hope all of you see that. I hope you
- 48:04Speaker 1: see what's going on here. When you have enough money,
- 48:07Speaker 1: you can buy your way out of anything, even molesting
- 48:10Speaker 1: little girls. JPMorgan Chase sued Staley in March, claiming he
- 48:14Speaker 1: should be held liable for damages it might face from
- 48:17Speaker 1: the lawsuits. It accuses Staley, who worked at the bank
- 48:20Speaker 1: for more than 30 years, of knowing about Epstein's conduct
- 48:24Speaker 1: and engaging in sexual activity with young women procured by Epstein.
- 48:29Speaker 1: Staley asked for the lawsuits to be dismissed and said
- 48:32Speaker 1: the bank is using him as a public relations shield. However,
- 48:37Speaker 1: he has expressed regret for his relationship with Epstein. All
- 48:40Speaker 1: this regret. I don't care about your regret. Save your sorries.
- 48:44Speaker 1: Save your I should have done something else's. You all
- 48:47Speaker 1: knew who he was. You knew what he was up to.
- 48:49Speaker 1: And you all chose to chill with him. JPMorgan Chase
- 48:53Speaker 1: CEO Jamie Dimon is scheduled to be deposed in the
- 48:56Speaker 1: lawsuits this month. In a Bloomberg television interview last week,
- 49:01Speaker 1: he said he is so sad that we had any
- 49:03Speaker 1: relationship to that man whatsoever. You know, we had top
- 49:07Speaker 1: lawyers evaluating, from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Enforcement,
- 49:12Speaker 1: the Justice Department, you know, and obviously, had we known
- 49:16Speaker 1: then what we know today, we would have done things differently,
- 49:19Speaker 1: Diamond said. But it's very unfortunate, and I have deep
- 49:22Speaker 1: respect for these women. That doesn't mean that we're liable
- 49:26Speaker 1: for the action of an individual, he added. But I
- 49:29Speaker 1: do have deep respect for them. My heart goes out
- 49:31Speaker 1: to them. No, you're not responsible for his actions. You're
- 49:34Speaker 1: responsible for enabling his actions and facilitating them, you jackass.
- 49:39Speaker 1: But JPMorgan Chase's banking relationship was also known at the
- 49:43Speaker 1: highest levels of the bank, the U.S. Virgin Islands said
- 49:47Speaker 1: in court documents. In August 2008, internal email says, I
- 49:51Speaker 1: would count Epstein's assets as a probable outflow for 2008,
- 49:56Speaker 1: $ 120 million or so. As I can imagine, it will
- 50:00Speaker 1: stay pending the Diamond Review. And guess what?
- 50:03Speaker 2: It stayed.
- 50:04Speaker 1: Additional internal emails and memos filed as exhibits also revealed
- 50:09Speaker 1: that bank executives had been worried about the financial institution's
- 50:13Speaker 1: relationship with Epstein dating to 2006. Financial records showed Epstein
- 50:20Speaker 1: uses his JP Morgan account to transfer around $ 3 million
- 50:24Speaker 1: to women and girls from 2003 to 2013, according to
- 50:29Speaker 1: records the plaintiffs filed as exhibits. The financial records Do
- 50:34Speaker 1: not disclose the names of those who received the transfers
- 50:37Speaker 1: or their connections to Epstein. And here's another breadcrumb for
- 50:41Speaker 1: all of the super Epstein investigators out there on Twitter
- 50:45Speaker 1: and elsewhere. Follow the money, okay? Pretty simple, right? Follow
- 50:50Speaker 1: the money and you'll find everything that you're looking for.
- 50:54Speaker 1: And the reason that we didn't see Rico here is
- 50:56Speaker 1: because of all of these people who are tied to
- 50:59Speaker 1: Epstein financially. You really mean to tell me Epstein wasn't
- 51:02Speaker 1: out here engaging in money laundering and tax evasion and
- 51:06Speaker 1: all the rest of it, pretty much every transaction the
- 51:09Speaker 1: dude made would have been illegal if he was hit
- 51:12Speaker 1: under Rico predicates, and that's why they didn't do it.
- 51:15Speaker 2: They hit Keith Ranieri with Rico, right? Oh, they hit R.
- 51:18Speaker 1: Kelly with Rico, right? Oh, why not Ghislaine Maxwell? Why
- 51:22Speaker 1: not Jeffrey Epstein? Just ask yourselves that. During that time,
- 51:26Speaker 1: Epstein withdrew a little over $ 5 million in cash, typically
- 51:30Speaker 1: in amounts of $ 40, 000, court documents show. Meanwhile, Senator Tina Smith,
- 51:35Speaker 1: Democrat of Minnesota, a member of the Banking, Housing, and
- 51:39Speaker 1: Urban Affairs Committee, asked Diamond in a letter last week
- 51:42Speaker 1: why the bank ignored obvious signs of Epstein's illegal activity
- 51:47Speaker 1: and maintained a relationship with Epstein. Well, Tina Smith, why
- 51:51Speaker 1: did George Mitchell, why did Bill Richardson, why did Bill Clinton,
- 51:55Speaker 1: Go ask them that. You're a big senator, right? You're
- 51:58Speaker 1: this big time senator. You're a big shot. Go ask
- 52:01Speaker 1: your buddies. Go ask the people who used to call
- 52:04Speaker 1: those very halls that you work in on a daily
- 52:07Speaker 1: basis in D.C. home about Jeffrey Epstein and his illegal activity.
- 52:13Speaker 1: And furthermore, Tina Smith, since you injected yourself into the conversation.
- 52:18Speaker 1: I'm calling on you now to put together a whole
- 52:21Speaker 1: ass committee that digs deep into this and goes for
- 52:24Speaker 1: RICO predicates or at the very least recommends RICO predicates.
- 52:29Speaker 1: Put your money where your mouth is, Tina Smith. If true,
- 52:32Speaker 1: JPMorgan's decision to turn a blind eye to such egregious
- 52:36Speaker 1: misconduct raises serious questions about its role in facilitating Epstein's
- 52:41Speaker 1: abuse and its willingness or ability to root out and
- 52:44Speaker 1: prevent other less apparent instances of sex trafficking, she said.
- 52:50Speaker 1: And remember as well that the Congress and the Senate,
- 52:53Speaker 1: they have their own slush fund of taxpayer dollars that
- 52:56Speaker 1: they can access to pay off their own sexual harassment lawsuits.
- 53:00Speaker 1: So these are the people we're relying on to go
- 53:03Speaker 1: after people like Epstein, huh? And put new laws on
- 53:05Speaker 1: the books? Talk about inspiring confidence. All right, folks, that's
- 53:09Speaker 1: going to do it for this one. All of the
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