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Mega Edition: The USVI And The Amended Lawsuit Filed By The Survivors (9/5/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
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  Speaker 1: As the lawsuit in the United States Virgin Islands continues
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  Speaker 1: to make its way through the system, we continue to
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  Speaker 1: get updates via court filings. And now the United States
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  Speaker 1: Virgin Islands has filed an amended lawsuit against JPMorgan and Chase.
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  Speaker 1: So let's get into this article from Kate Bricklett over
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  Speaker 1: at the Daily Beast. And let's see what's going on. Headline,
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  Speaker 1: JP Morgan executives joked about Epstein's interest in young girls,
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  Speaker 1: according to the lawsuit. Well, that should shock nobody. The
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  Speaker 1: financial sector is populated with a bunch of scumbags. So
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  Speaker 1: it should shock nobody when they're talking about your daughters
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  Speaker 1: or your sister or your friends with such disregard. And
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  Speaker 1: the sad part is all of these people, the so-called elite,
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  Speaker 1: the so-called upper crust, They all feel the same way.
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  Speaker 1: All those people that you're out there cheering on and
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  Speaker 1: carrying on about and yelling at your family about and
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  Speaker 1: your friends over politics. Breaking news, none of those people
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  Speaker 1: like you. And it always reminds me of that part
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  Speaker 1: in Bronx Tale where Sonny's talking to C about Mickey Mantle.
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  Speaker 1: And they're talking about how, you know, C's favorite player
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  Speaker 1: is Mickey Mantle and how C was all bummed out
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  Speaker 1: because they made Mickey Mantle cry. Well, Sonny says Mickey Mantle,
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  Speaker 1: that's what you're upset about? Mantle makes $ 100, 000 a year.
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  Speaker 1: How much does your father make? If your dad ever
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  Speaker 1: can't pay the rent and needs money, go ask Mickey Mantle.
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  Speaker 1: See what happens. Mickey Mantle don't care about you. Why
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  Speaker 1: should you care about him? Nobody cares. And that analogy
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  Speaker 1: certainly holds true for all of these politicians. In its
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  Speaker 1: legal battle with J.P. Morgan, the government of the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Virgin Islands claims the investment bank obstructed authorities investigating convicted
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  Speaker 1: sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and says its executives knew more
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  Speaker 1: about Epstein's activities than they've previously disclosed. Well, what do
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  Speaker 1: you know? What have I been telling you folks for, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, four years now? That the financial sector
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  Speaker 1: smells like absolute horseshit. And everything going on in the
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  Speaker 1: financial sector that had to do with Epstein should have
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  Speaker 1: been under scrutiny. and should have been recode, but they
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  Speaker 1: never did it. So now, all of a sudden, we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about the financials again, and they're rearing their ugly head,
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  Speaker 1: and it's once again shining an ugly light on the
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  Speaker 1: SDNY and the prosecutor's office in New York. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: how long did Cy Vance have to go after Epstein?
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  Speaker 1: How long did the SDNY have to go after Epstein?
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  Speaker 1: How long did the New York State's prosecutor's office have
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  Speaker 1: to go after Epstein in general? And none of them
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  Speaker 1: did it. But now, all of a sudden, this is
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  Speaker 1: being disclosed and presented as something new? Everybody who's been
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  Speaker 1: following this case knew what was going on as far
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  Speaker 1: as the financial sector and the way they were enabling
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  Speaker 1: Epstein throughout this whole entire thing. The bank's conduct has
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  Speaker 1: led to serious harm for women and girls in the
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  Speaker 1: Caribbean territory. The Virgin Islands contend in the suit. On Monday,
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  Speaker 1: the territory's attorney general officially asked to amend its lawsuit
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  Speaker 1: against J.P. Morgan to include one count of obstruction of
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  Speaker 1: enforcement of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. The latest complaint
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  Speaker 1: includes new accusations about what the bank and executives, including
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  Speaker 1: Mary Erdos, knew about Epstein, though much of those claims
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  Speaker 1: are redacted. Erdos? CEO of the bank's asset and wealth
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  Speaker 1: management division, was deposed in the Virgin Islands case last month.
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  Speaker 1: Jess Daly, Epstein's close friend and J.P. Morgan's former head
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  Speaker 1: of private bank, and J.P. Morgan, CEO Jamie Dimon, were
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  Speaker 1: also reportedly scheduled for under oath interviews. According to the
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  Speaker 1: amended complaint, J.P. Morgan employees and senior executives had emailed
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  Speaker 1: internally that Epstein was under investigation, or had been sued
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  Speaker 1: for trafficking or sexual abuse during the course of the
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  Speaker 1: bank's relationship with the perverted financier. Epstein had a relationship
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  Speaker 1: with J.P. Morgan from 1998 to 2013, including the period
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  Speaker 1: during which he pleaded guilty to soliciting an underage girl
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  Speaker 1: and served jail time in Florida in 2008. And what
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  Speaker 1: those emails show is that the whole entire story about
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  Speaker 1: how it was all Jess Staley's fault, how Jess Staley's
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  Speaker 1: the only one involved here, well, that story gets blown
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  Speaker 1: out of the water when we get these emails. It's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like everybody trying to blame Acosta, right? Sure,
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  Speaker 1: Acosta shoulders his portion of the blame, but he's not
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  Speaker 1: the only guy that should be blamed for what happened.
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  Speaker 1: And the same goes for Jess Staley. He is a disgusting,
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  Speaker 1: disgusting human being. But... JP Morgan Chase and the bosses
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  Speaker 1: over there, they have to take their share as well. What,
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  Speaker 1: they're not going to take their lumps? The buck stops
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  Speaker 1: with them. They're the ones in charge. Staley wasn't running
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  Speaker 1: the whole company, was he? So he has a boss
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  Speaker 1: and that guy has a boss and so on. So
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  Speaker 1: it has to go all the way to the top
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  Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned and going after Jamie Dimon,
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  Speaker 1: while I don't think he had anything to do with
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  Speaker 1: what was going on with the day-to-day as far as
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's concerned. To act like he had no idea who
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  Speaker 1: Epstein is is just laughable at best. Internal emails also
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  Speaker 1: questioned who Epstein's clients were. The filing states, Indeed, Epstein's
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  Speaker 1: behavior was so widely known at J.P. Morgan that senior
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  Speaker 1: executives joked about Epstein's interest in young girls. The document
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  Speaker 1: cites a 2008 email that Erdos received, though it redacts
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  Speaker 1: what the sender had allegedly asked her. JP Morgan had
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  Speaker 1: information that it knew was directly relevant to the federal
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  Speaker 1: investigation of Epstein's suspected trafficking, including Epstein's payments to Eastern
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  Speaker 1: European women, the complaint states, and we know he loved
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  Speaker 1: them Eastern European women, going by women from war-torn countries,
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  Speaker 1: countries that are poor, you know, anywhere that he could
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  Speaker 1: exploit the vulnerable. And unfortunately, there are people on this
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  Speaker 1: planet who are so disgustingly gross, They'll sell their own
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  Speaker 1: children to people like Jean-Luc Brunel so that they can
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  Speaker 1: be gifted to somebody like Jeffrey Epstein. And these bankers
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  Speaker 1: think that's funny. The financial sector, they're laughing at you.
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  Speaker 1: Not just over this, but over the fact that you're
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  Speaker 1: willing to pay 26.5% for that hooptie-ass car you just
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  Speaker 1: bought too. They're laughing about that as well. Believe me
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  Speaker 1: when I tell you. Meanwhile, the lawsuit alleges J.P. Morgan
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  Speaker 1: was well aware that Epstein had pleaded guilty and served
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  Speaker 1: prison time for engaging in sex with a minor, a
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  Speaker 1: crime closely connected with sex trafficking and violation of the TVPA. J.P.
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  Speaker 1: Morgan was well aware that there were public allegations that
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  Speaker 1: his illegal conduct was facilitated by several named co-conspirators. The
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  Speaker 1: filing continues, but J.P. Morgan, concealed from the federal government,
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  Speaker 1: its numerous cash payments to those co-conspirators. And also, let's
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  Speaker 1: not forget the structuring. We know that there was a
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  Speaker 1: lot of structuring going on within the Epstein enterprise. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm guessing that was happening at JP Morgan in some
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  Speaker 1: form as well. JP Morgan continued its affirmative conduct of
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  Speaker 1: allowing Epstein to access cash so that he could make
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  Speaker 1: those cash payments to his co-conspirators with knowledge and that
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  Speaker 1: such cash transactions did not produce a clear paper trail.
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  Speaker 1: That's the whole point. They want to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: this money is untraceable. What, they want to pay taxes?
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  Speaker 1: You think they care about April 15th, April 18th this year,
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  Speaker 1: but you think they give a shit about tax time?
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  Speaker 1: They're not going to have any liability, but you better
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  Speaker 1: make sure you report that handbag you sold on Etsy.
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  Speaker 1: The U.S. Virgin Islands argues that the investment bank allowed
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  Speaker 1: Epstein and his associates to make large withdrawals of cash
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  Speaker 1: so that his sex trafficking ring would escape the detection
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  Speaker 1: of federal law enforcement and prosecuting agencies. The territory's attorney
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  Speaker 1: general sued JPMorgan in December, weeks after two survivors of
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  Speaker 1: Epstein filed lawsuits against the financial giant and Deutsche Bank.
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  Speaker 1: The plaintiffs in the trio of related cases argue the
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  Speaker 1: banks profited off of Epstein's trafficking scheme. Well, they're not wrong.
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  Speaker 1: They certainly did. Everybody had their hand in the pie.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody was getting rich, and everybody was benefiting off of
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  Speaker 1: the ill-gotten gains of Mr. Scumbag McGee. Last week, the
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  Speaker 1: Attorney General issued subpoenas to several wealthy men for communications
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  Speaker 1: related to the bank and Epstein. The Wall Street Journal
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  Speaker 1: reported that the group included Google billionaire Sergey Brin, Hyatt
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  Speaker 1: Hotel's executive chairman, Thomas Pritzker, media and real estate billionaire
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  Speaker 1: Mortimer Zuckerman, and former talent agent Michael Ovitz. JPMorgan Chase
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  Speaker 1: has denied any wrongdoing in connection to Epstein and sought
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  Speaker 1: to have the lawsuit dismissed. A federal judge, however, ruled
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  Speaker 1: that the cases can proceed. In a motion to dismiss,
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  Speaker 1: the bank called the U.S. Virgin Islands complaint a masterclass
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  Speaker 1: in deflection, that seeks to hold JPMC responsible for not
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  Speaker 1: sleuthing out Epstein's crimes over a decade ago. Yet. USVI
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  Speaker 1: had access at the time to the same information, allegations,
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  Speaker 1: and rumors about Epstein on which it alleges JPMC should
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  Speaker 1: have acted. The bank's attorney stated in the filing, Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: as a law enforcement agency, USVI had access to much more,
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  Speaker 1: along with the investigative advantage of physical proximity to Epstein's crimes.
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  Speaker 1: And look, they're not wrong about that. I've said that
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  Speaker 1: from the beginning about the U.S. Virgin Islands. I know
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  Speaker 1: there's people out here that think the U.S. Virgin Islands
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  Speaker 1: is doing a great job and all of that. And great, fine.
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  Speaker 1: I'll certainly acknowledge that getting these people to sit down
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  Speaker 1: for depositions is fantastic. But their motivations, let's be clear,
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  Speaker 1: are all financial. The U.S. Virgin Islands is hoping to
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  Speaker 1: get more money out of all of this. And I
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  Speaker 1: would think that if the U.S. Virgin Islands was serious,
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  Speaker 1: we would see not just civil charges here, but we'd
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  Speaker 1: see criminal charges as well. And so far, we haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen any of that. So as far as that's concerned,
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  Speaker 1: the bank is not wrong. But two things can be
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  Speaker 1: wrong at the same time. And I think that's certainly
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  Speaker 1: the case here. And in my opinion, anyway, both entities,
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  Speaker 1: the U.S. Virgin Islands and J.P. Morgan, were both complicit
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  Speaker 1: in enabling Jeffrey Epstein. All right, folks, that's going to
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  Speaker 1: do it for this one. All of the information that
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  Speaker 1: goes with the episode can be found in the description box.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. The U.S. Virgin Islands
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  Speaker 1: is looking to amend their lawsuit against J.P. Morgan. And
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  Speaker 1: they're looking to add an obstruction charge to the other
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  Speaker 1: allegations that they have already leveled at the banking giant.
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  Speaker 1: So today, we have an article from the St. Thomas Source.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to get caught up on what's going
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  Speaker 1: on with the lawsuit. So, let's just get right to it. Headline,
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  Speaker 1: Virgin Islands Seeks New Charge Against J.P. Morgan Over Epstein Dealings.
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  Speaker 1: This article was authored by Cian Cobb. The VI Attorney
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  Speaker 1: General's Office is seeking to amend its complaint against JPMorgan
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  Speaker 1: Chase to add a charge that the bank obstructed enforcement
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  Speaker 1: of the Federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act in its business
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  Speaker 1: dealings with the late disgraced financier, pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's exactly what they were doing. Now, are they going
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  Speaker 1: to be able to prove it in a court of law?
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  Speaker 1: That's debatable, but that's exactly what was going on. The
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  Speaker 1: thing is, these guys are well adept at protecting their
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  Speaker 1: own interests, right? And they'll make sure that layer after
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  Speaker 1: layer of protection is woven into their operation so that
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  Speaker 1: they never get nailed. And if they do, they'll have
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  Speaker 1: plausible deniability. Just look at what Jamie Dimon's doing right now.
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  Speaker 1: Just look at what Jess Daly's doing right now. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: ever accepting responsibility when things go left. The strategy is
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  Speaker 1: let's just blame everybody else and hope to cause enough
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  Speaker 1: confusion that everything just dies down with a fine. Because
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  Speaker 1: that's what they're looking for. They want to pay some
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  Speaker 1: money and get rid of all of this. That's the
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  Speaker 1: end goal for JP Morgan. That's the end goal for
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  Speaker 1: Deutsche Bank. And that's the end goal for Epstein's estate.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want any of the information to see the
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  Speaker 1: light of day. They want to pay out a few
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  Speaker 1: bucks and have everything go away. JPMorgan opposed the motion
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  Speaker 1: in a response on Tuesday, saying the government missed the
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  Speaker 1: court's January 11th deadline to further amend its complaint and
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  Speaker 1: lacks standing to do so in its parents' patriotic capacity,
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  Speaker 1: under which a state has third-party standing to bring a
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  Speaker 1: lawsuit when it implicates its interests for the well-being of
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  Speaker 1: its citizens. The V.I. government alleges that JPMorgan's obstruction directly
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  Speaker 1: approximately and foreseeably harmed women and girls in the Virgin
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  Speaker 1: Islands by directly resulting in them being caused to engage
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  Speaker 1: in commercial sex acts and in other ways. The filings
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  Speaker 1: are the latest in a flurry of activity in the case,
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  Speaker 1: including a third-party suit by J.P. Morgan against its former executive,
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  Speaker 1: James Jess Daly, asking the New York court, to make
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  Speaker 1: him pay if the plaintiffs prevail in their suits against
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  Speaker 1: the bank. And again, look, it's always going to be
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  Speaker 1: somebody else's fault. Nobody's ever going to step up and
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  Speaker 1: take responsibility for what happened here. It's never going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: If you're waiting for people in the financial sector to
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  Speaker 1: ever take responsibility for their bullshit, you're going to be
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  Speaker 1: waiting for a long time. Staley handled Epstein's 50 plus
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  Speaker 1: accounts End is at the center of the government's complaint
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  Speaker 1: and another brought by an anonymous Epstein survivor, Jane Doe No. 1,
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  Speaker 1: who has also filed a suit against Deutsche Bank, where
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  Speaker 1: Epstein took his business after Staley moved on to Blue
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  Speaker 1: Mountain Capital in 2013 and then to Barclays Bank in 2015.
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  Speaker 1: The cases have been consolidated by U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff.
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  Speaker 1: and we know that Judge Rakoff is really not a
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  Speaker 1: big fan of Wall Street in the first place. So
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  Speaker 1: hopefully his tolerance for shenanigans from J.P. Morgan and Deutsche
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  Speaker 1: Bank will be at a minimum. The suits allege that J.P.
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  Speaker 1: Morgan ignored red flags concerning Epstein, his accounts, and Staley's
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  Speaker 1: close relationship with the wealthy financier, pedophile, a convicted sex
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  Speaker 1: offender whose primary residence was Little St. James, his private
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  Speaker 1: island estate located, off of St. Thomas. Epstein was found
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  Speaker 1: dead by apparent suicide in August of 2019 in a
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  Speaker 1: New York City jail cell where he was being held
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  Speaker 1: on federal human trafficking charges. Those charges stemmed from investigations
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  Speaker 1: into his controversial 2008 non-prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors in
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  Speaker 1: Florida under which he pled guilty to state charges of
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  Speaker 1: soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution. despite evidence that
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  Speaker 1: dozens more girls were involved. He served 13 months in
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  Speaker 1: a work release program at the office of a foundation
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  Speaker 1: he started, made payments to victims, and became a registered
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  Speaker 1: sex offender. Well, not in New Mexico, he didn't. He
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  Speaker 1: certainly wasn't a registered sex offender there. And as far
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  Speaker 1: as what went down in Florida, as far as the
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  Speaker 1: non-prosecution agreement... Hopefully, we're going to learn a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more about that because it looks like the grand jury documents,
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  Speaker 1: the transcripts, are going to be released. And that'll give
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  Speaker 1: us a window into the process and into what happened
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  Speaker 1: inside of that room. Considering they only brought one witness
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  Speaker 1: up against Jeffrey Epstein and his friends, I would like
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  Speaker 1: an answer as to why. Considering there were dozens of
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  Speaker 1: girls who had come forward and brought allegations, why is
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  Speaker 1: it that only one girl was brought up as a
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  Speaker 1: witness to the grand jury. So there's just so many
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  Speaker 1: things that need to be explained still after all of
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  Speaker 1: these years that still have not been explained. Staley exchanged
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  Speaker 1: approximately 1,200 emails with Epstein from his JP Morgan email
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  Speaker 1: account between 2008 and 2013, none of which were flagged
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  Speaker 1: in connection with risk reviews of the financier pedophile's accounts,
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  Speaker 1: according to the USVI's complaints. The V.I. government has alleged
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  Speaker 1: that those emails included photos of young women in provocative poses,
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  Speaker 1: discussed Epstein's provision of services to Staley during his travel
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  Speaker 1: to Little St. James and elsewhere on dates that closely
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  Speaker 1: correspond with Epstein's payments to the same young woman from
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  Speaker 1: his J.P. Morgan accounts, and discussed young women or girls
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  Speaker 1: procured by Epstein using the names of Disney princesses. As
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  Speaker 1: if they couldn't get more vile, right? Let's use the
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  Speaker 1: name of princesses from little kid stories, you bunch of sick,
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  Speaker 1: disgusting degenerates. For his part, Staley on Thursday filed a
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  Speaker 1: motion to have his case heard separately, citing an inability
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  Speaker 1: to comply with the court's deadlines for discovery and the
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  Speaker 1: trial date of October 23rd. JP Morgan opposed that request
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  Speaker 1: in a reply on Friday. And we talked a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about that last week and how the U.S. Virgin Islands,
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  Speaker 1: they don't want the trial split. They want Jess Daly
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  Speaker 1: and JP Morgan on the hook together at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: A case for a second count. In an order on
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  Speaker 1: March 20th, Judge Rakoff said count one of the Virgin
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  Speaker 1: Island government's first amended complaint that JP Morgan knowingly benefited
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  Speaker 1: from participating in a sex trafficking venture in violation of
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  Speaker 1: the Federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act, or TVPA, would remain,
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  Speaker 1: but dismiss two counts under the Virgin Islands Criminally Influenced
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  Speaker 1: and Corrupt Organizations Act, otherwise known as SECO, and another
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  Speaker 1: under the Territories Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act.
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  Speaker 1: In its motion to file a second amended complaint on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: the VI government announced Now seeks to add account that
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  Speaker 1: the bank obstructed enforcement of the TVPA, noting that the
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  Speaker 1: judge in his March order allowed that charge to stand
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  Speaker 1: in those suit against JP Morgan. So what they're doing
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  Speaker 1: basically is piggybacking off of the other allegation in the
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  Speaker 1: other lawsuit. because the judge has already allowed that. So
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  Speaker 1: it's a pretty shrewd move from the Virgin Islands and
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  Speaker 1: one that is probably going to see them hit some
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  Speaker 1: pay dirt because the courts and judges will they love precedent.
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  Speaker 1: And with Judge Rakoff already ruling in the other case
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  Speaker 1: that it can go forward, it would make sense that
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  Speaker 1: he would give the nod here to this amended lawsuit
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  Speaker 1: filed by the Virgin Islands. The bank argues that the
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  Speaker 1: government is belatedly piggybacking on those complaints. Well, that's how
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  Speaker 1: it works. When new information is provided, we go back
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  Speaker 1: and we amend our complaint. I don't see JP Morgan
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  Speaker 1: having any kind of tenable ground here to defend what
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  Speaker 1: they're saying. The USVI's motion for leave to amend comes
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  Speaker 1: far too late, according to JP Morgan's reply. It provided 100,000
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  Speaker 1: pages of documents in 2021 when subpoenaed in the USVI's
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  Speaker 1: lawsuit against Epstein's estate, which was settled in December for
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  Speaker 1: 105 million dollars. then was contacted by the government with
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  Speaker 1: suggestions the bank may have violated the Territory SECO Act,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: it said. JPMC was in the process of explaining to
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: USVI why those dismissed allegations lacked merit when it was
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: sued by Jane Doe 1 for alleged violations of the
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: TVPA and now a consolidated case. USVI then followed Doe's
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: lead following suit in this court alleging, for the first time,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: a TVPA violation. The reply stated now months after this
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: court's January 11th, 2023 deadline to file an amended complaint.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: USVI once again tries to jump on the bandwagon. This
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: is an inordinate delay for which USVI has not met
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: its burden to satisfactorily explain. The bank stated saying the
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: government had the same facts for its proposed new claim
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: when it filed its initial complaint on December 27th and
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: its first amended complaint. on January 10th. So they're contending
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: that this is just a piggyback, and it is. But
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: I think that Judge Rakoff is going to allow it
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: to move forward. At the very least, USVI should have
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: sought leave to amend immediately after January 13th, 2023, when
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Doe asserted her claim alleging obstruction of the TVPA. Yet
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: USVI inexplicably waited months while JPMC's motion to dismiss was
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: briefed and argued, before it sought to assert its copycat claim. Indeed,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: USVI waited to piggyback on Doe's obstruction claim until the
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: court's denial of JPMC's motion to dismiss that count in Doe.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: USVI has offered no satisfactory explanation for its months-long delay,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: according to the reply, loopholes and technicalities. That's what it
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: comes down to. These people never want to answer for anything.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: So it'll be, oh, it wasn't filed correctly. It wasn't
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: filed soon enough. And they'll always tiptoe around the real
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: issue here. And the issue is J.P. Morgan was financially
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: backing Jeffrey Epstein and they were enabling his bullshit. The V.I.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: government asserts in its 43 page motion that because the
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: additional claim is based on the same alleged facts in
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: its first amended complaint. It does not either require JP
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Morgan to expend additional resources on discovery or trial preparation
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: or delay the resolution of this action. It also notes
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: that Doe already is litigating the obstruction claim based on
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: the same alleged facts in her case that is scheduled
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: for a consolidated trial with this case. Moreover, the government
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: alleges that within three days of the judge's March 20th
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: order dismissing its SECO claim but upholding Doe's TVPA obstruction claim,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: it asked JP Morgan's consent to amend to conform its
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: remaining TVPA claim with Doe's remaining TVPA claims based on
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: the same fact allegations. The bank refused, it said, so
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: the USVI has sought leave of the court. The government
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: thus acted with diligence. Moreover, even if it had not,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: it still should be granted leave to amend because J.P.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Morgan cannot show prejudice, according to the government's memorandum of law,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: in support of the second amended complaint. So it's going
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: to be a back and forth affair here, and both
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: sides are going to look to press the issue, right?
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: The question is, which side is going to press the
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: right issue with the judge? Some new details. The government's
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: latest motion, while still heavily redacted, contains some new information,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: including J.P. Morgan's 2011 review of Epstein's accounts that noted,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: A few news stories during 2010 connects Jeffrey Epstein to
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: human trafficking. The coverage team all met to discuss the
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: situation and agreed to enhance monitoring and document a discussion
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: with the client. They called on none other than Staley
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: to do so, according to the motion, who discussed the
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: topic with Jeffrey Epstein, who replied there was no truth
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: to the allegations, no evidence, and was not expecting any problems.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: We will continue to monitor the accounts and cash usage
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: closely going forward. Yeah, they did a good job at that, huh?
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Considering all of these alleged victims and survivors got money
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: from Jeffrey Epstein's bank accounts as he was paying them off.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: So yeah, they did a great job with monitoring what
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Epstein was up to and what his account was up to.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: In March of 2011, J.P. Morgan's Global Corporate Security Division
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: reported that numerous articles detail various law enforcement agencies investigating
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein for allegedly participating directly or indirectly in child
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: trafficking and molesting underage girls. Jeffrey Epstein has settled a
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: dozen civil lawsuits, out of court from his victims regarding
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: solicitation for an undisclosed amount, according to the government's motion.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: So they all knew, this is what I've been talking about.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, the government, everybody knew what he
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: was doing and nobody lifted a finger to stop him. Additionally,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: it claims, the bank's anti-money laundering director in August 2011
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: flagged an account relating to Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's former companion, co-conspirator,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: general all around scuzzbag, fellow child abuser and bipedal serpent,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: who in 2021 was sentenced to 20 years in prison
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: for conspiring with him to sexually abuse minors. Maxwell wanted
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: to set up an account for her personal recruitment consulting business.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: It says in an internal email, JP Morgan's AML director asked,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: what does she mean by personal recruitment? Are you sure
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: this will have nothing to do with Jeffrey? If you
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: want to proceed, I suggest that we flag this as
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: a high risk client. They knew she was high risk.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: They flagged her as high risk and continued to do
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: business with her. Because again, profits over people when it
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: comes to the banks. Despite these communications, the bank did
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: not terminate its relationship with Epstein until 2013, the government asserts.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: The frequency of Epstein's payments and the fact that the
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: vast majority of account activity was payments to women and
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: cash withdrawals rather than business activity should have been enough
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: to trigger action. The motion states, yeah, there's checks and
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: balances that are supposed to be in place at a
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: financial institution to stop shit like this from happening. But
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: when you have everybody in on it, all the bosses,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: all the head honchos, well, what are you going to do?
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Yet even as late as May 2013, mere months before J.P.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Morgan terminated Epstein's account, J.P. Morgan provided lines of credit
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: to Epstein of up to $ 50 million, it says. The
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: motion also offers additional details regarding Staley's communications with Epstein.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: In an email, it says the married father of two
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: daughters sent to Epstein on November 1st, 2009, when Epstein
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: was incarcerated and Staley was presumably visiting little St. James,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: he wrote, So when all hell breaks loose and the
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: world is crumbling, I will come here and be at peace. Presently,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: I'm in the hot tub with a glass of white wine.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: This is an amazing place. Truly amazing. Next time we're together,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I owe you much. And I deeply appreciate our friendship.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: I have few that are so profound. And imagine this idiot,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Jeff Staley, is trying to distance himself. Bro, you wrote
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: this email. Nobody snuck into your house, stole your blackberry,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: and popped off this email. Please stop with the bullshit.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: On December 4th, 2009, Staley told Epstein via email, I
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: realized the danger in sending this email, but it was
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: great to be able, today, to give it to you
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: in New York City. A long, heartfelt hug, according to
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: the motion. Imagine, I don't know you very well, but
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I can't wait to come to your island, and I
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: can't wait to hug you, and thank you so much
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: for everything, Jeffrey. Give me a break. The next day,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Epstein wrote to Staley, you were with Larry, and I
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: had to put up with, and attached a picture of
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: a young woman. Staley quipped, Don't tell me a French wine.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Epstein replied, Always thoughts of alcohol, the motion states. And
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: that's funny he says he was with Larry, huh? I'm
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: guessing Larry Summers. On December 20th, 2009, the government says
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Epstein sent an email to Staley that was blank except
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: for a picture of a young woman. On January 15th, 2010,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Staley emailed Epstein, referring to Little St. James. Arrived at
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: your harbor? Someday we have to do this together, according
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: to the motion. In July 2010, Staley sent an email
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: to Epstein saying, maybe they're tracking you. That was fun.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Say hi to Snow White, the motion states. Epstein responds,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: what character would you like next? When Staley said Beauty
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: and the Beast, Epstein replied, well, one side is available.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Both J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank have denied wrongdoing, with J.P.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Morgan stating that the V.I. government's claims against it strain credulity. Look,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: we all know what those emails meant. Come on. And
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: we all know that Jess Daly, according to his own
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: words in these emails, was enjoying the fruits of Jeffrey
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Epstein's disgusting enterprise. So, Jess Daly, your bitch ass is
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: now on the clock. All right, folks, that's going to
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: do it for this one. All of the information that
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: goes with the episode can be found in the description box.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: In this episode, we're going to talk a little more
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: about the J.P. Morgan lawsuit down in the United States
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Virgin Islands and how J.P. Morgan knew that Jeffrey Epstein
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: purchased a 14-year-old girl and paid her 600 grand. Not
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: only that, he also had her housed in the building
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: on 66th Street down in Manhattan. And we all know
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: what was going on in that building from countless people
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: who lived through it. And it doesn't take a rocket
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: scientist To figure out who they're talking about. When they're
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: talking about a 14 year old girl. Who was sold
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: to Jeffrey Epstein. We all know that that's Nadia Marcinkova.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: And we all know the tragedy of her tale. And
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: obviously J.P. Morgan knew as well. So today's article is
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: from the Inside Edition. And the headline. Lawsuit alleges J.P.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Morgan knew Jeffrey Epstein. Reportedly bought and housed a 14
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: year old girl. And he paid her 600 grand. This
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: article was authored by Chris. The complaint filed in connection
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: with a lawsuit against J.P. Morgan by the Attorney General
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: of the U.S. Virgin Islands alleges that at least 20
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: individuals paid through J.P. Morgan accounts were victims of trafficking
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: and sexual assault. Well, that was the account that Epstein
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: was using to piece people off their hush money after
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: he was done abusing them, have them sign, you know,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: maybe an NDA or whatever. But in most cases, it
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: was just a payoff. And then Epstein would use that
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: as his cover. Oh, they were prostitutes. I paid them. So?
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: They were prostitutes. What are you talking about? I didn't
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: traffic anybody. And the sad part is, there's some people
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: out there that actually bought that shit. News articles about
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein purchasing a 14-year-old girl from Europe were allegedly
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: included in JP Morgan's due diligence reports about the pedophile,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: according to an amended complaint filed in connection with a
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: lawsuit against the bank by lawyers for the U.S. Virgin Islands.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: The complaint alleges that executives at JP Morgan should have
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: known that the girl lived in a property owned by
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: the pedophile, It then further alleges that the largest bank
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: in the country transferred over $ 600, 000 from accounts controlled by
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Epstein into the girl's own personal JP Morgan account. And
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: the reason that her account was at JP Morgan as
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: well is so that they could control what was going
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: on completely. End-to-end encryption, basically, right? From one end to
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: the other, from our bank to our bank, just two
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: different clients, and we'll keep everything nice and uniformed. And
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: for years, they were able to get away with it.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: They were able to get away with all of these
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: transfers to these different accounts that were being held by J.P.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Morgan and overseen by Jess Daly. Like other women who
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: received payments from Epstein, Jane Doe One listed Epstein's apartment
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: on 66th Street in New York City as her address,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: which should have been a red flag to J.P. Morgan,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: reads the complaint obtained by Inside Edition Digital. Lawyers for
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: the U.S. Virgin Islands filed a civil lawsuit against JPMorgan
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: last year, writing in their initial complaint that the company
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: turned a blind eye to evidence of human trafficking over
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: more than a decade because of Epstein's own financial footprint
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: and because of the deals and clients that Epstein brought
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: and promised to bring to the bank. The recently filed
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: amended complaint says that despite news reports identifying this woman
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: as a possible victim of sex trafficking, Executives at J.P.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Morgan allegedly referred to her in an internal document as
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Epstein's assistant or young lady he brought over from Prague
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: or someplace like that. And when we're talking about this person,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: it's rather obvious who it is. I'm not going to
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: state the name here because... It looks like she's the
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: one who is filing this suit as Jane Doe number one. However,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: we did have a ruling from Judge Rakoff saying that
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: the identity of the accuser will be revealed to the
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: lawyers of J.P. Morgan. So we'll just continue to call
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: her Jane Doe number one until there's something in the
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: public sphere saying differently. That same internal document allegedly describes
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: charges in New York, Palm Beach, and St. Thomas for lingerie,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: and other sexually explicit material, according to the complaint. Elsewhere,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: JPMorgan describes media reports referring to the fact that Epstein
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: purchased her at age 14, says the complaint. She remained
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: a customer of JPMorgan, and Epstein paid her more than $ 600, 000
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: from his account at JPMorgan, including more than $ 165, 000 after
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Epstein's plea. And of course, that's hush money. Right. He
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: has his plea deal, has the non-prosecution agreement drawn up,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: which really shouldn't even include this person because they were
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: a minor who was coerced into all of this for
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: a long time. But after that, when he has his
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: plea deal and he gets taken care of, he starts
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: piecing people off a few bucks as hush money. And
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: then in turn, he can tell people, see, I paid them.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: They were prostitutes. And that was all part of his
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: whack ass, bunk ass cover story. In court documents, J.P.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Morgan says that it lacks knowledge or information sufficient to
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: form a belief as to the truth of the allegations
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: and therefore denies the allegations, including that any knowledge of
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: the alleged victim residing at an apartment owned by Epstein
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: should have been a red flag. In response to the $ 600, 000 payment,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: a lawyer for J.P. Morgan states that the allegation characterizes
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: the contents of documents and respectfully denies refers to the
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: court to those documents for a complete and accurate recitation
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: of their contents. The complaint also alleges that top executives
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: at the company were aware that Epstein had been convicted
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: of soliciting an underage girl. Concerns about the risks that
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Epstein posed were well known, enough that numerous J.P. Morgan
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: senior executives met in various groupings in July and October
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: of 2008, January 2011, August 2011, and July 2013. The
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: complaint claims, So they met all these times about Jeffrey Epstein,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: but nothing was ever done, and they had no idea
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: who he was. That's what they want everybody to think,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: and that's the narrative that they're going to try and craft.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: The problem for them is, well, the problem for them
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: is all of you, and how none of you are
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: going to buy the bullshit that they're trying to sell you.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: That's what it really comes down to. Nobody's buying the
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: narratives that have been carefully maintained and manicured by these
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: people for all of these decades anymore. The complaint identifies
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: several executives by name but does not elaborate on what
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: each individual allegedly knew or discussed in the meetings mentioned.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands v. J.P. Morgan, the
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: second amended complaint. The newly amended complaint further alleges that
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: members of the firm facilitated or participated in, directly or indirectly,
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: the trafficking enterprise Epstein-Helmed. The investigation revealed that J.P. Morgan knowingly,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: negligently and unlawfully provided and pulled the levers through which
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: recruiters and victims were paid and was indispensable to the
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: operation and concealment of the Epstein trafficking enterprise. They're not wrong.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: And there's a lot of other people who were involved
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: as well. But unfortunately, nobody wants to drop a Rico
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: on these fools and get a full accounting of what happened.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: Imagine if they did. Can you imagine what that day
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: would look like down at the SDNY? All of these
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: idiots being perp walked in, wearing some handcuffs, some nice
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: sparkly jewelry. And then unfortunately, we'd have to wake up
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: from our collective mushroom trip that we were on because
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: that's never going to happen in the real world. More specifically,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: the complaint alleges that Epstein paid large sums of money
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: to a number of female victims and enablers through his
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: JP Morgan accounts. That's all factual. The complaint alleges that
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: at least 20 individuals paid through JP Morgan accounts were
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: victims of trafficking and sexual assault in Little St. James,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: New York, and or other Epstein properties. You notice they
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: never talk about New Mexico? That's a big tell right there, folks.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: The fact that they never talk about New Mexico means
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: we should be talking about New Mexico. Because 100%, without
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: a doubt, some vile shit happened in New Mexico on
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: the property of that Zorro Ranch. The complaint does not
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: name any of these alleged victims or the alleged enablers
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: who received payments, with the exception of Glenn Maxwell, who
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: the complaint claims received $ 23 million in the span of
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: just four years. from 1999 and 2002. Another woman, identified
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: only as a recruiter given immunity through Epstein's non-prosecution agreement,
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: received more than $ 728, 000 from Epstein's J.P. Morgan accounts, according
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: to the complaint. My guess is Sarah Kellen Vickers. I
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: can't prove that, but that sounds like a nice rounded
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: amount that she'd be asking for, for her bullshit as
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: far as being part of Epstein's scheme. And everybody knows
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: she's living that high life, isn't she? With her race
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: car husband, million dollar condos, and the rest of it.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: JP Morgan began doing business with Epstein as early as 1998,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: according to the complaint, managing approximately 55 accounts for him,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: which were worth hundreds of millions of dollars. JPMorgan parted
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: with Epstein in 2013, keeping him on as a client
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: for five years after he pleaded guilty to soliciting a
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: minor in the state of Florida, according to the complaint.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Epstein was arrested in 2019 on federal charges of sex
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: trafficking minors in Florida and New York. He was found
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: dead in a jail cell one month after his arrest.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: A medical examiner ruled his death a suicide. Yeah, we
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: all have our doubts about that, don't we? JP Morgan
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: facilitated and concealed wire and cash transactions that raised suspicion of,
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: and were in fact part of, a criminal enterprise whose
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: currency was the sexual servitude of dozens of women and
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: girls in and beyond the Virgin Islands, the lawsuit filed
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: by the U.S. Virgin Islands alleges. Human trafficking was the
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: principal business of the accounts Epstein maintained at JP Morgan.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: JPMorgan did not respond to Inside Edition Digital's request for comment,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: but it has denied any wrongdoing and, in an answer
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  Speaker 1: to the lawsuit, the bank says it did not have
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  Speaker 1: any knowledge, constructive or otherwise, that a person under the
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  Speaker 1: age of 18 would be caused to engage in a
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  Speaker 1: commercial sex act. That filing... Also states that J.P. Morgan
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  Speaker 1: did not have knowledge, constructive or otherwise, that means of force,
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  Speaker 1: threats of force, fraud, coercion, or any combination of such
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  Speaker 1: means would be used to cause any person to engage
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  Speaker 1: in a commercial sex act. So that's what they say.
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  Speaker 1: That's what J.P. Morgan says in their answer to this filing.
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  Speaker 1: But they're going to have to answer in court why
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  Speaker 1: all of these accounts were kept with JP Morgan and
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  Speaker 1: why all of these intrabank transfers weren't monitored, flagged, and
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  Speaker 1: hit with SARS. They're going to have to answer for
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  Speaker 1: all of that. And if they can't, well, it's not
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  Speaker 1: going to go well for them. But we still have
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  Speaker 1: quite a bit of a way to go before we
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  Speaker 1: get even close to that point in this case. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll have to see what the new filings are that
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  Speaker 1: come in in the future. And we'll have to see
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  Speaker 1: how things continue to evolve as we approach the trial
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  Speaker 1: date in October. All right, folks, that's going to do
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  Speaker 1: it for this one. All of the information that goes
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