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Multiple Senators Call For An Investigation Into Jes Staley · The Epstein Chronicles

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. You know what I find absolutely mind-boggling? The
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  Speaker 1: fact that Jeff Staley, the guy who was practically Epstein's penpal,
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  Speaker 1: travel buddy, and business confidant, hasn't been dragged in front
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  Speaker 1: of the US Grand Jury yet. Like, come on. This
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  Speaker 1: man wasn't just grabbing coffee with Jeffrey, I own an
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  Speaker 1: island of felonies Epstein. He was exchanging hundreds of emails,
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  Speaker 1: sailing on his yacht, showing up at his Manhattan townhouse,
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  Speaker 1: and acting like none of it was weird. and we're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to believe it was all professional? Come on, that's
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  Speaker 1: like saying you went to Pablo Escobar's place for the
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  Speaker 1: networking opportunities. These guys were closer than anyone wants to admit,
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  Speaker 1: and the paper trail proves it. Staley didn't just know Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: he trusted him. Trusted him enough to visit the Manhattan
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  Speaker 1: mansion after Epstein had already been registered a sex offender.
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  Speaker 1: Trusted him enough to keep in touch while running JP
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  Speaker 1: Morgan's private banking arm, where, conveniently, Epstein was still a client.
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  Speaker 1: You tell me how that happens. You tell me how
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  Speaker 1: a guy like Jeff Staley, who's supposed to be one
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  Speaker 1: of the sharpest minds in finance, keeps doing business with
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  Speaker 1: a convicted predator. Either he's the dumbest smart guy on
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  Speaker 1: Wall Street, or he knew exactly what was going on,
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  Speaker 1: and he didn't care. And guess what? Either way, it reeks.
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  Speaker 1: And for me, here's where the real questions start. Because
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  Speaker 1: it's not just about did he know Epstein was abusing girls.
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  Speaker 1: It's about what else were they doing together. What kind
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  Speaker 1: of financial operations were being run through Epstein's accounts? What
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  Speaker 1: kind of investments were getting shuffled around through offshore entities?
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  Speaker 1: There's a reason federal law, Title 31, exists to monitor
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  Speaker 1: money movements. Banks are supposed to flag suspicious activity. You
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  Speaker 1: can't just funnel millions through shadow accounts, pay out consulting fees,
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  Speaker 1: and hope nobody notices. Unless, of course, the guy responsible
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  Speaker 1: for noticing is your buddy on the inside. Let's not
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  Speaker 1: forget that Staley wasn't just some middle manager. Bro was
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  Speaker 1: running JP Morgan, basically, and he was running Barclays. The
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  Speaker 1: kind of place where people's life savings, pensions, and business
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  Speaker 1: loans are parked. And while he's supposed to be overseeing
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  Speaker 1: risk and compliance, he's out here writing gushy emails to
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein that sound more like love letters than business correspondence.
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  Speaker 1: And it's disturbing, not just morally, but financially, because when
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  Speaker 1: a guy like Jeff Staley is cozying up to a
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  Speaker 1: criminal like Epstein... It shows you that the monsters aren't
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  Speaker 1: hiding under your bed, but they're sitting in boardrooms wearing cufflinks.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's the we didn't know routine. Barclays claims
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  Speaker 1: Staley was transparent about his relationship with Epstein. Yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 1: Just like every politician swears their emails are about yoga.
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  Speaker 1: You expect the public to buy that he was just
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  Speaker 1: networking with a guy who literally ran a human trafficking ring?
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  Speaker 1: These people live in a world where ethics are a
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  Speaker 1: press release, and as long as the profits are rolling in,
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  Speaker 1: nobody asks the uncomfortable questions. So yeah, it's about time
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  Speaker 1: the US took a real hard look at Jeff Staley,
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  Speaker 1: not just as Epstein's golf buddy, but as a potential
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  Speaker 1: financial accomplice in one of the most twisted money pipelines
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  Speaker 1: we might have ever seen. Because if Epstein was the monster,
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  Speaker 1: someone had to keep the lights on in the lair.
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  Speaker 1: Someone had to make sure the wire transfers cleared, the
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  Speaker 1: shell companies stayed afloat, and the regulators stayed off his back.
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  Speaker 1: And my money's on the banker who kept signing the checks. Look,
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you can't have a
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  Speaker 1: guy like Epstein without a guy like Jeff Staley. One
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  Speaker 1: who preys on people, the other launders the loot. And
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  Speaker 1: if we're serious about accountability, not the PR version, but
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  Speaker 1: the real put-on-the-handcuffs kind, Then it's time Jess Daly gets
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  Speaker 1: a subpoena, not another speaking gig. Because until the system
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  Speaker 1: starts holding these people accountable, it's all just noise. And
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  Speaker 1: they're still laughing behind closed doors while the rest of
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  Speaker 1: us foot the bill. This article was published by The Guardian. Headline,
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren urges U.S. regulators to investigate Jess Daly's ties
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  Speaker 1: to Epstein. Now look, I'm not exactly a gigantic fan
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  Speaker 1: of Elizabeth Warren. But she's right about this, and to
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  Speaker 1: tell you the truth, I don't really care where a
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  Speaker 1: good idea comes from, as long as it's a good idea.
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  Speaker 1: And investigating Jess Staley? Well, I consider that a damn
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  Speaker 1: good idea. The author of this article is Kalina Makortov.
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  Speaker 1: The Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren is calling for an investigation
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  Speaker 1: into bankers including Jess Staley over their alleged support for
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  Speaker 1: the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and in a move
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  Speaker 1: that could leave the former Barclays boss banned from working
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  Speaker 1: in the U.S. financial sector. Well, yeah, that's a good idea, huh?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this guy was processing how many billions of
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  Speaker 1: dollars of bad money? And then to just go on
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  Speaker 1: with his life like nothing happened, like everything's cool? Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: that's not okay. These are the same people that would
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  Speaker 1: see you be homeless and not give one single damn
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  Speaker 1: about it. Sorry, your credit isn't good enough to get
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  Speaker 1: that loan. You're going to have to eat dog food now.
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  Speaker 1: In a letter privately filed with the regulators and seen
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  Speaker 1: by the Guardian, Warren called for the investigations into all
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  Speaker 1: current and former U.S. banking executives who may have facilitated
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein's illicit conduct. Look, that's a great idea. If
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  Speaker 1: you want to really get to the bottom of what
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  Speaker 1: Epstein was up to, there is only one way to
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  Speaker 1: do it, folks. Follow the money. How long have I
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  Speaker 1: said it? And that goes for all these people. Doesn't
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  Speaker 1: matter who you're talking about. Any one of these so-called elite,
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  Speaker 1: if you follow the money, eventually you're going to get
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  Speaker 1: to a tainted source. You don't get this rich playing
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  Speaker 1: by the rules. That includes Staley, who Warren said is
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  Speaker 1: alleged to have helped protect the late financier pedophile's access
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  Speaker 1: to the banking system during his stint working at J.P.
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  Speaker 1: Morgan in the early 2000s. Warren noted that Staley, who
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  Speaker 1: was already banned from the UK banking sector, has been
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  Speaker 1: described in media reports as Epstein's chief defender. Not only that,
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  Speaker 1: but possibly a co-conspirator, right? I mean, we heard the emails.
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  Speaker 1: We saw what they said. Who's Snow White? Who's Beauty
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  Speaker 1: and the Beast? What is he even talking about? So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: if anybody should be put under oath, I would say
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  Speaker 1: that Jeff Staley is right at the top of the list. Warren,
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  Speaker 1: the lead Democrat on the U.S. Committee on Banking, Housing,
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  Speaker 1: and Urban Affairs, said she was concerned to hear that
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  Speaker 1: Staley pushed back when colleagues flagged Epstein's suspicious transactions, referring
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  Speaker 1: to a matter that was put to him in court
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  Speaker 1: proceedings earlier this year. Staley denied the allegations at the time, saying,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's fair, and that the decision to
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  Speaker 1: exit a client such as Epstein was not his to make. Well,
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  Speaker 1: whose was it? Was it Mary Erdos? Was it Jamie
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  Speaker 1: Dimon himself? Somebody made the decision. Warren also referred to
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  Speaker 1: court evidence suggesting Staley tipped Epstein off about JP Morgan's
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  Speaker 1: worries in a way that allowed the sex trafficker to
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  Speaker 1: alter his behavior and avoid scrutiny. Staley told the court
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  Speaker 1: that he was not part of the managing the account,
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  Speaker 1: but did not deny that he told Epstein there were
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  Speaker 1: concerns about cash withdrawals. Well, yeah, that's exactly what he did.
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  Speaker 1: He facilitated the whole thing. So he would get reports
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  Speaker 1: from compliance about Epstein's account or whatever. Then he'd take
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  Speaker 1: those reports and instead of fixing it, He'd tip Epstein
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  Speaker 1: off and let Epstein, you know, change his patterns and
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  Speaker 1: do something different. And on and on and on it went.
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  Speaker 1: During his 15-year relationship with J.P. Morgan, Epstein opened at
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  Speaker 1: least 134 accounts, processed over $ 1 billion in transactions, and
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  Speaker 1: brought in several lucrative clients, Warren's letter said. Yeah, including
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  Speaker 1: Glenn Dubin. And while J.P. Morgan had so far paid
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  Speaker 1: $ 290 million in settlements to Epstein's victims... Staley has so
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  Speaker 1: far avoided accountability in the United States, the senator said.
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  Speaker 1: And that is completely unacceptable as far as I'm concerned.
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  Speaker 1: And when you wonder why I say that the Congressional
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  Speaker 1: Oversight Committee is a joke, this is why. No Jeff Staley,
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  Speaker 1: no Marie Villafana, no Menchel, nobody. They're all just pulling
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  Speaker 1: your leg once again, fucking around, making pretend that they care.
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  Speaker 1: Because it's election season, and that goes for all of them.
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  Speaker 1: Both sides of the aisle. Warren has now called on
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  Speaker 1: the Federal Reserve Board, the Office of the Comptroller of
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  Speaker 1: the Currency, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to publicly
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  Speaker 1: announce the launch of an investigation into former and current
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  Speaker 1: banking executives who may have aided Epstein by November 7th.
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  Speaker 1: She has also asked for a private confirmation that an
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  Speaker 1: investigation had been opened specifically into Staley's conduct by November 14th.
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  Speaker 1: Wrongdoing could ultimately result in a fine and a potential
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  Speaker 1: ban from working in the U.S. banking sector. Notice they
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  Speaker 1: don't talk about jail though, right? If you're a banker,
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  Speaker 1: that's part of the unwritten rule. You're not going to
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  Speaker 1: prison for anything. If they didn't go to prison after
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  Speaker 1: the financial meltdown, do you really think they're going to
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  Speaker 1: go to prison for anything? No fucking way. Never going
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  Speaker 1: to happen. It's critical to send a message to the
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  Speaker 1: public and current bank employees that this type of egregious
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  Speaker 1: misconduct has no place in the American banking system, Warren's
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  Speaker 1: letter said. It would be another bruising development for Staley,
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  Speaker 1: who in June lost a legal attempt to overturn his
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  Speaker 1: lifetime ban from the UK financial sector imposed by the
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  Speaker 1: UK's Financial Conduct Authority in 2023, after he was found
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  Speaker 1: to have misled the watchdog over his relationship with the
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  Speaker 1: sex offender. Oh yeah, misled. What they really mean is lied.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what he's been doing from the very beginning
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  Speaker 1: about Jeffrey Epstein and the relationship they shared. This is
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  Speaker 1: a man that was enjoying Jeffrey Epstein's largesse, breaking bread
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  Speaker 1: with him, sitting in his jacuzzi, hanging out on the island,
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  Speaker 1: heading over to the townhouse for, you know, a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of coffee or tea or whatever, the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: And for him to have the audacity to act like
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  Speaker 1: he didn't even really know Epstein is just bananas. The
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  Speaker 1: FCA's original investigation, triggered by a cache of more than 1,200
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  Speaker 1: emails between Staley and Epstein, concluded that the pair were
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  Speaker 1: indeed close and had a relationship that went beyond one
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  Speaker 1: that was professional in nature. Yeah, I'd say so. These
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  Speaker 1: dudes were, in my opinion, co-conspirators. And I think that
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  Speaker 1: if I had access to the financials, I'd be able
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  Speaker 1: to prove it. Warren also called for an investigation into
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  Speaker 1: other top executives that may have supported the late financier's crimes.
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  Speaker 1: Staley is not the only bank executive with concerning ties
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  Speaker 1: to Epstein. For example, according to Staley's sworn deposition, he
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  Speaker 1: discussed Epstein with CEO Jamie Dimon on at least two occasions,
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  Speaker 1: the letter stated. And I agree with that too. Jamie
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  Speaker 1: Dimon knows more than he said. 100%. Dimon has previously
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  Speaker 1: denied Staley's claims and stated that he does not recall
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  Speaker 1: knowing anything about Epstein until years after the firm effectively
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  Speaker 1: severed ties with the sex offender. JP Morgan declined to comment. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I bet they did. I bet they did. They already
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  Speaker 1: paid out $ 290 million. Pretty sure they don't want to
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  Speaker 1: pay any more money. Unfortunately for them, I think it's coming.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we've seen the last of the lawsuits
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  Speaker 1: filed against JP Morgan when it comes to Epstein. The Fed, OCC,
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  Speaker 1: and FDIC should investigate any other current or former banking
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  Speaker 1: executive who engaged in similar conduct to determine whether their
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  Speaker 1: conduct satisfies the legal standards for a ban or on
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  Speaker 1: working in the banking industry and civil monetary penalties, Warren said.
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  Speaker 1: Any banking executive who facilitated the crimes of one of
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  Speaker 1: the world's most notorious sex criminals should be held accountable,
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  Speaker 1: Warren's letter added. Donald Trump has come under fire for
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  Speaker 1: his own social ties to the sex offender, who was
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  Speaker 1: a longtime friend until they fell out in 2004. The
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  Speaker 1: president made releasing the Epstein investigative files part of his
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  Speaker 1: campaign platform, but has failed to do so. He has
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  Speaker 1: referred to the furor over the files as a Democratic hoax.
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  Speaker 1: The news of Warren's letter came as two new lawsuits
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  Speaker 1: were filed by an anonymous plaintiff against Bank of America
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  Speaker 1: and the Bank of New York Mellon, alleging that the
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  Speaker 1: banks illicitly enabled Epstein's sex trafficking. BNY has said the
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  Speaker 1: claims are meritless and will vigorously defend itself against them.
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  Speaker 1: Bank of America echoed the comments saying, we will vigorously
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  Speaker 1: defend ourselves in this matter. The Guardian contacted Staley's legal
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  Speaker 1: representative for comment. In June, after the loss of his
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  Speaker 1: legal challenge against the FCA, Staley said he was disappointed
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  Speaker 1: by the outcome, but was never dishonest. So look, here's
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  Speaker 1: where I'm at. If the Justice Department's serious about cleaning
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  Speaker 1: up the wreckage that Epstein left behind, it can't just
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  Speaker 1: go after the perverts. It's gotta go after the enablers.
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  Speaker 1: The guys in suits who smiled, shook hands, and kept
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  Speaker 1: the wires humming. Jeff Staley wasn't some innocent bystander who
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  Speaker 1: stumbled into a bad friendship. He was the banker in
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  Speaker 1: the room where the dirty money moved, the guy who
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  Speaker 1: made Epstein look legitimate when everyone else knew that he
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  Speaker 1: was toxic. And until someone puts this guy under oath,
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  Speaker 1: until someone starts combing through those accounts with the same
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  Speaker 1: energy they use to audit the average taxpayer, it's all
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  Speaker 1: a farce. Because if Epstein's network was a criminal enterprise,
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  Speaker 1: Jess Staley was the CFO of that sickness. And he
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  Speaker 1: walked away with bonuses and a golden parachute? The least
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  Speaker 1: we can do... is strip away the polite fiction, drag
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  Speaker 1: the truth into daylight, and finally ask the question every
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  Speaker 1: regular person's been screaming for years. How the hell do
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  Speaker 1: these people always get away with it? If there's any
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  Speaker 1: justice left in the system, and we know there's not,
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Staley should be sitting in front of Congress, not
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  Speaker 1: sipping wine on some private terrace, pretending he didn't know
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  Speaker 1: what was going on. Because when money and morality collide,
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  Speaker 1: the banks always seem to come out clean. And the
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  Speaker 1: victims get buried twice. Enough of that. Time to turn
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  Speaker 1: the tables. Time for Jeff Staley to answer some goddamn questions.
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  Speaker 1: All of the information that goes with this episode can
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