Latest / The Epstein Chronicles / Mega Edition: Judge Jed Rakoff And His Fingerprint On The Epstein/Maxwell Cases (5/10/26)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
- 0:05So JP Morgan finds themselves in some more hot water
- 0:08now with Judge Rakoff as he's accusing them of slow
- 0:12walking documents during the discovery phase and now he's also
- 0:17threatening them with contempt of court. And it doesn't shock me.
- 0:21JP Morgan and their lawyers, they're used to steamrolling people.
- 0:25When you have the kind of lawyers that JP Morgan has,
- 0:28a lot of times you'll just see brute force and intimidation.
- 0:32We have more power than you, we have more pull
- 0:34than you, and we have more backroom connections than you.
- 0:38Because remember, when you're paying for these lawyers, you're not
- 0:41just paying for what's happening in the courtroom. You're paying
- 0:44for the kind of deals that they're going to work
- 0:47on the golf course or at the restaurant. And then
- 0:51those kind of deals, those kinds of relationships that translates
- 0:55into victories inside of the courtroom. And a lot of
- 0:58times those victories come without spending one single minute in
- 1:01front of a jury because they work out plea deals,
- 1:05They work out all kinds of payment options for people,
- 1:08and they find a way to provide cover for scuzzbags
- 1:11like JP Morgan, and don't get it confused. I'm not
- 1:15even mad at the lawyers. I'm mad at the bs,
- 1:17loopholes and the back doors that are put in most
- 1:20of these laws so that the people who have all
- 1:23this dough can escape if they ever get in trouble. Meanwhile,
- 1:26you better hope and pray that you never get caught
- 1:28up in the legal system, because normal folks don't catch
- 1:32deals like Jeffrey Epstein caught. Today's article is from CNBC
- 1:37and the headline judge warns JP Morgan Chase of contempt
- 1:41finding for slow walking evidence in Jeffrey Epstein case. The
- 1:46authors of this article are Emon Javers and Dan Mangen.
- 1:51A New York federal judge Warren JP Morgan Chase that
- 1:55he might find the bank in contempt of court if
- 1:58it does not speed up and produce using evidence related
- 2:01to the late sexual offender, pedophile and money manager Jeffrey
- 2:05Epstein for lawsuits by an Epstein accuser and the government
- 2:10of the US Virgin Islands. CNBC has learned Judge Jed
- 2:15Raykoff suggested in a notice that JP Morgan and two
- 2:19law firms representing the bank have been slow walking and
- 2:22turning over documents and other evidence to plaintiffs in the
- 2:26case under a process known as discovery. According to a
- 2:30source familiar with the notice, and this is what I'm
- 2:34talking about when we're talking about trials, the slow walking
- 2:38of discovery evidence. This is gamesmanship. This is what they do.
- 2:42And it's not just JP Morgan. The government does this
- 2:45all the time as well. We're currently seeing something like
- 2:47this in the Brian Koberger case where he feels like
- 2:51his defense team like they have to compel the prosecution
- 2:55to turn evidence over, so they have to go to
- 2:58the judge and then the judge makes the ruling and
- 3:01draws up an order telling one side or the other
- 3:04that they have to turn over all of the evidence
- 3:07in so many days or whatever the timeframe is worked
- 3:11out by the judge. The notice comes two weeks before
- 3:15JP Morgan CEO Jamie Diamond is scheduled to be questioned
- 3:19under oath by plaintiff's lawyers for the civil suits which
- 3:23accuses Bank of enabling and benefiting from Epstein's alleged sex
- 3:29trafficking of young women alleged. What's alleged about it? Can
- 3:33somebody please answer that for me? Why do these writers
- 3:36insist on saying alleged all of these women who got
- 3:40a payout of some sort that's not alleged anymore. That
- 3:43means that the estate of Jeffrey Epstein have accepted that
- 3:47these women were abused by Jeffrey Epstein. Therefore they're paying
- 3:52out restitution for that abuse. That would seem to me
- 3:55to be a bit more than alleged, wouldn't it. The
- 3:58court also wishes to note that it is concerned that
- 4:02JP Morgan is not moving more expeditiously to produce responsive documents,
- 4:08Rakeoff wrote in the notice, which has yet to appear
- 4:11on the public docket in the case in US District
- 4:14Court in Manhattan. While the Court appreciates the large volume
- 4:19of discovery that is to be completed in this case,
- 4:22a company as large as JP Morgan and Council has
- 4:26experienced as Wilmer, Hell and Massey and Gale should be
- 4:31able to move with greater speed than what was revealed
- 4:34by this incident, the judge wrote, referring to the banks
- 4:37to law firms, what was Hamlin, Hamlin and McGill busy
- 4:42or something? So JP Morgan is put on notice that
- 4:46further expedition will be needed on pain of being put
- 4:50in contempt of court, Rakeoff wrote. A JP Morgan spokesperson
- 4:55had no comment on the notice. Oh I bet they didn't.
- 4:58The last thing they're going to do talked to the
- 5:00media about this situation here. They don't want to get
- 5:03caught slipping. Epstein, who died from a jailhouse suicide in
- 5:07twenty nineteen, shortly after being arrested on federal child sex
- 5:12trafficking charges, was a longtime customer of the bank until
- 5:16twenty thirteen. Well, are we sure that he died from
- 5:20a jailhouse suicide. I mean, that's what the official narrative says,
- 5:23but I don't know how much stock I put in that. Now.
- 5:26Of course, you can take my opinion and a buck
- 5:28fifty or two bucks down to the local bodega and
- 5:31get yourself a cup of coffee for all it's worth.
- 5:34But I haven't seen anything that convinces me here that
- 5:38that's the truth. What Bill Barr is enough for you,
- 5:41not for me. That guy's a proven liar. I don't
- 5:44trust anything he has to say, and I feel like
- 5:47a broken record at this point. Whenever this topic comes up,
- 5:51I am more than willing to believe that Jeffrey Epstein
- 5:53killed himself in that jail cell. But I need some
- 5:56proof and not the I'm here from the government. You
- 5:59have to trust me kind of proof either. I want
- 6:02some proof that is tangible. Let's see those videos. What
- 6:05did Bill Barci let us see that? How come there
- 6:08was no report right after Epstein's death? Nobody followed protocol.
- 6:13It was all a shit show. Why was it reported
- 6:15on four Chan like thirty eight minutes before the legacy
- 6:19media even picked it up. So there's still a million questions.
- 6:22But until those are answered, I don't know how anyone's
- 6:25out here stating definitively one way or the other what
- 6:28happened in that jail cell. The lawsuits allege to the
- 6:31bank allowed Epstein to remain a client despite evidence he
- 6:35was using millions of dollars he kept on deposit to
- 6:38facilitate his trafficking of girls and young women to his
- 6:41private island in the Virgin Islands and elsewhere. Of course,
- 6:45you got to have cash, right, Cash rules today, and
- 6:48no criminal enterprise, no matter what the crime is, can
- 6:51function if it's not using the actual banking system that
- 6:55you and I use every day. You want an example,
- 6:59of that, look at it quickly. The Kinahan cartel is
- 7:02now being pressed from all edges, all corners, and all sides.
- 7:07The reason well, they can't use the traditional banking system anymore.
- 7:11They're sanctioned. And once you get sanctioned in the banking system,
- 7:15forget it. It doesn't matter how much money you have.
- 7:18That's why the money laundering operations for all of these
- 7:21criminal enterprises are so crucial. If you don't have a
- 7:25proper money washing operation, then all of your criminal activity
- 7:30is going to go to waste. And that's why you
- 7:32see all of these money men inside of these criminal
- 7:35enterprises who are just making a ton of money because
- 7:39they're crucial to the operation, no matter what the criminal
- 7:42enterprise is. Five years before JP Morgan ended its customer
- 7:47relationship with Epstein, he pleaded guilty in Florida State Court
- 7:51to soliciting sex for money from an underage girl and
- 7:55serve thirteen months in jail before his conviction. Epstein was
- 7:59friends with former Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, as
- 8:03well as Prince Andrew of Britain. Since we're talking about politicians,
- 8:07I mean you can add Ehud Barock to that. You
- 8:10can add Bill Richardson to that. You can add George
- 8:13Mitchell to that, and there's a host of other folks
- 8:16that can get thrown into that conversation as well. JP
- 8:19Morgan denies any wrongdoing, and its own civil complaint. The
- 8:24company has said former bank executive Jess Staley would be
- 8:28legally responsible for any liability arising from its relationship with Epstein.
- 8:34Staley spent three decades at JP Morgan and had close
- 8:38contact with Epstein, whom he considered a friend over the
- 8:41years when Epstein was a customer and not just a friend.
- 8:45Go ahead and use Jess Staley's own words, my dear friend, Jeffrey,
- 8:50thank you for letting me come and dunk mynards in
- 8:53your jacuzzi as I sip on some wine and god
- 8:56knows what else, Because you know, that's what I'm doing
- 8:59with the local banker next weekend. I'm giving them the
- 9:02keys to the townhouse so he can come over and
- 9:04have a little dip in the jacuzzi, you know, because
- 9:06we're so close. Who believes that shit, And the fact
- 9:10that they'd pitch it and think that people are going
- 9:13to believe it is just crazy to me. Aren't they
- 9:16supposed to be the smartest, richest, best schooled people in
- 9:20the world. Didn't they all go to like Wharton, Oxford
- 9:23and all these other dumbass institutions that are a waste
- 9:26of money. In my opinion, that's right, they all did.
- 9:29But somehow there's not a lick of common sense amongst
- 9:32the whole entire lot of them. Rakeoff, in a court
- 9:35ruling published in early May, noted that plaintiffs alleged that
- 9:39mister Staley had first hand knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein's sex
- 9:43trafficking operation. Mister Staley is alleged to have visited Epstein's
- 9:47residences several times while that operation was ongoing, and during
- 9:53these visits observed the Epstein accusers suing JP Morgan as
- 9:57a sexual trafficking and abused victim. Raykoff noted, and again,
- 10:02if plaintiff is who I think it is, it's going
- 10:05to be a wrap for JP Morgan and everybody else
- 10:08involved here, because this person for sure got treated absolutely monstrously,
- 10:13not only by Epstein in his pals, but by the
- 10:15financial system that should have been keeping an eye on
- 10:19what Epstein was up to. Plaintiff's further alleged that mister
- 10:23Staley himself abused some of Epstein's victims, including the woman
- 10:28suing the bank. The judge wrote that woman claims that
- 10:31one of Epstein's friends, whom she later identified as mister Staley,
- 10:36used aggressive force in his sexual assault of her and
- 10:39informs her that he had Epstein's permission to do what
- 10:43he wanted to her. And remember, Leon Black is still
- 10:46facing allegations from a woman who has some pretty similar
- 10:49claims that Leon Black was abusing her at Jeffrey Epstein's
- 10:53behest at Jeffrey Epstein's apartment. YadA, YadA, YadA. How many
- 10:57times do we have to hear the same story? In
- 11:00his own court filing, Staley called the accusations against him baseless,
- 11:04and he has denied knowledge of Epstein sex trafficking. Staley
- 11:09stepped down as CEO of British banking giant Barclays in
- 11:13late twenty twenty one after an inquiry by a United
- 11:17Kingdom regulator into how he had characterized his relationship with
- 11:21Epstein to Barclays. And of course it's never the institution's fault, right,
- 11:26It's always somebody like Jess Staley's fault. And I'm certainly
- 11:29not saying Staley doesn't share a big portion of the
- 11:32blame here, but to let the whole institution off and
- 11:35all of his superiors off, I think that just lets
- 11:38the cycle continue until there's some real repercussions for the
- 11:42bullshit that the financial sector gets up to. We're gonna
- 11:46keep seeing the same stuff over and over and over again.
- 11:50How many times are we going to see one hundred
- 11:52and fifty million, two hundred million dollars fines? And the
- 11:55banks have no problem paying them because it's not their money, right,
- 11:58the shareholders are going to pick up the bill, and
- 12:01all of the people that were responsible for the bullshit,
- 12:03they just keep it moving. They're onto the next one.
- 12:06And I hate to say it, folks, Jeffrey Epstein is
- 12:09just the tip of the iceberg. This kind of problem
- 12:12here that we're talking about, as far as the financial
- 12:15sector being involved with scumbags and helping these criminal enterprises
- 12:21do what they do. Oh, that problem runs deep, and
- 12:24it's never going to be something that gets exposed or
- 12:28fixed unless there's penalties for people and their nonsense. And
- 12:32up until now, we have not seen any sort of
- 12:35real penalties for those in the financial sector, besides a
- 12:39few sacrificial lambs. Have any of the big shots ever
- 12:42been busted after the financial meltdown any of that? Of
- 12:46course not. It's always one or two people that get
- 12:49served up. And they're trying the same strategy here with
- 12:52jess Day. And I don't think it's going to work
- 12:55this time. I don't think the judge is buying it,
- 12:57and I certainly don't think you're buying it. All right, folks,
- 13:01that's going to do it for this one. All of
- 13:03the information that goes with the episode can be found
- 13:06in the description box. What's up everyone, and welcome back
- 13:09to the Epstein Chronicles. So it looks like Judge Raykoff
- 13:14is going to sign off or has signed off on
- 13:17the settlement that sees the survivors divvy up more than
- 13:22two hundred and ninety million dollars. Well, that's after the
- 13:26eighty seven million or so go to the lawyers and
- 13:29the other people who are involved as far as administrators.
- 13:32But the survivors are certainly in line here to get
- 13:36themselves a nice chunk of change, and they deserve it.
- 13:40Imagine being abused by this sick bastard for all these
- 13:43years and nobody believing you, Nobody in the media, nobody
- 13:47in law enforcement. So when you look at their abuse
- 13:50and then you can pound the interest for the years
- 13:53that it was ignored, I would say a couple of
- 13:55million dollars is a pretty decent starting point. And like
- 13:59I've said a bunch of times before, the US Virgin
- 14:02Islands is lucky that I'm not one of these survivors,
- 14:05or that one of my loved ones isn't, because we'd
- 14:07be exploring every possibility to sue the US Virgin Islands
- 14:11for their enabling of Jeffrey Epstein, and they open that
- 14:15door themselves with their lawsuit against JP Morgan. So if
- 14:19it's good for the goose, it's certainly good for the gander.
- 14:23Also in this episode, we're gonna talk about the Grand
- 14:27Jerry documents from Palm Beach that are now in front
- 14:30of a judge who will make the decision if those
- 14:33Grand Jerry documents become public or not. So basically, all
- 14:38that's standing in our way of getting a good look
- 14:41at what happened down in Palm Beach the first time
- 14:44around is this judge right now. So this judge better
- 14:48do the right thing. And his name is Luis Delgado,
- 14:51So we're gonna get into both of these articles, and
- 14:54the first one we're going to look at is an
- 14:57article from the Guardian headline AP Morgan to pay Jeffrey
- 15:01Epstein victims survivors you mean two hundred and ninety million
- 15:05dollars in a lawsuit settlement. District Judge Jed Raykoff agreed
- 15:10to approve the very large amount in addition to a
- 15:13seventy five million dollar payout agreement with Deutsche Bank. This
- 15:18article was originally authored by Reuters. A US judge on
- 15:23Monday granted preliminary approval to JP morgan chases two hundred
- 15:28and ninety million dollars settlement with women who said Jeffrey
- 15:31Epstein abused them and that the largest US bank ignored
- 15:36the late financier. You mean pedophiles, sex trafficking, and they
- 15:40most certainly did. I'll keep reiterating that every single time
- 15:44we talk about this topic, because the financial sector is
- 15:48dick deep in the nonsense that Jeffrey Epstein was up to.
- 15:51And while everybody else is out here telling you about
- 15:54the WEF and people who are gonna make you eat bugs,
- 15:57who's been laser focused on these scumbags in the financial sector,
- 16:01You know, the actual people in the world calling the shots,
- 16:04the actual people who make your life miserable. Yeah, those people.
- 16:10The approval was issued by US District Judge Jed Rakoff
- 16:14at a hearing in Manhattan Federal Court. This is a
- 16:17really fine settlement, Raykoff said. He said the accord and
- 16:21a similar seventy five million dollar agreement with Deutsche Bank
- 16:25he approved earlier this month, were very large settlements and
- 16:29would compensate Epstein's victims, though not make up for the
- 16:32abuses that they suffered. And that's where I am too.
- 16:36There's no amount of money that can make up for
- 16:39this kind of abuse, that weight that you carry for
- 16:42the rest of your life, that anchor that you're dragging
- 16:45around your neck. There's not enough money in the world
- 16:48to make that go away. However, a few million dollars
- 16:52is a nice starting point at trying to rebuild your life.
- 16:56Epstein had been a JP Morgan client from nineteen ninety
- 16:59eight eight through twenty thirteen, when the bank terminated his accounts. Victims,
- 17:05led by a former ballet dancer known as Jane do One,
- 17:08said JP Morgan missed red flags of Epstein's abuse and
- 17:13stayed in touch with him long after his official departure.
- 17:17Lawyers for the survivors said last week that the proposed
- 17:21all cash settlement was fair, adequate, reasonable, given the risks
- 17:26of further litigation and JP Morgan's denying involvement in Epstein's
- 17:31sex trafficking. JP Morgan, in a statement this month, said,
- 17:35any association it had with Epstein was a mistake and
- 17:39we regret it. No, you regret that it was exposed.
- 17:42If you regretted the actual relationship itself, then why were
- 17:46you still doing business with him after he was already
- 17:49a sex offender. Epstein remained a JP Morgan client for
- 17:53five years after he pleaded guilty in two thousand and
- 17:57eight to a Florida prostitution charge and registered as a
- 18:01sex offender. Must be nice, huh. And none of these
- 18:04articles ever mentioned that the New York Prosecutor's Office tried
- 18:07to argue that Jeffrey Epstein should have only been a
- 18:10Level one offender. Imagine that bullshit. And these are the
- 18:14same people that get up there on a daily basis
- 18:16on these news programs talking about how everybody else is
- 18:20a failure at their job. Meanwhile, all of these clowns
- 18:24who were working at the SDNY working in New York.
- 18:27In general, let Jeffrey Epstein run around for decades diddling
- 18:31little kids. So keep that in mind anytime you hear
- 18:35somebody who has something to say that used to work
- 18:38at a place like the SDNY. At Monday's hearing, Raykoff
- 18:42asked Jane Doe's lawyer David Boyce, why there was no
- 18:45minimum distribution for each victim, noting that the Deutsche Bank settlement,
- 18:50which Boys also negotiated, guaranteed each at least seventy five
- 18:54thousand dollars. Boy said many survivors in the Deutsche Bank
- 18:59case were from Russia or Eastern Europe and difficult to contact,
- 19:04making the guaranteed minimum an incentive to come forward. He
- 19:07said that was not needed in the JP Morgan case.
- 19:11And there's just another little clue from David Boyce about
- 19:14what I've talked about here for so long. All of
- 19:17the unnamed girls, especially from places like Eastern Europe, that
- 19:22were abused by Epstein. Now we have heard from a
- 19:26lot of the women here in America who were abused,
- 19:28not all of them, but we have heard from a
- 19:30lot of women who have been abused. But if you
- 19:32think that's all of them, you haven't been following along
- 19:35with the plot of the story because it most certainly
- 19:39is not all of them. And he's saying it right
- 19:41here in open court. How many women in Russia or
- 19:44Ukraine or elsewhere were abused by Epstein and his buddies
- 19:49and have no idea that this compensation is even available.
- 19:53Raykoff appointed Simon Lelchuk, a lawyer who specializes in administering settlements,
- 20:00to consider individual claims and determine payouts in the JP
- 20:04Morgan and Deutsche Bank case. JP Morgan is also facing
- 20:09a lawsuit over Epstein by the US Virgin Islands, where
- 20:12the financier pedophile owned two neighboring islands. That case is
- 20:17currently scheduled to go to trial on October twenty third.
- 20:21Epstein died at age sixty six in a Manhattan jail
- 20:25cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. New York
- 20:29City's medical examiner called the death a suicide. All right,
- 20:34So there we are on the settlement, with Judge Rakoff
- 20:37given the go ahead, and the settlement looking like it's
- 20:40about to kick in and begin distributing some of those funds,
- 20:45all right, onto our second article. This article is from
- 20:49the wpbf dot Com and the headline Palm Beach County
- 20:54judge now deciding whether to release Jeffrey Epstein grand jury testimony.
- 21:00Lewis Delgado will decide if public gets to finally see
- 21:03if prosecutors downplayed Epstein's case to the grand jury in
- 21:08two thousand and six. I mean, how can you not
- 21:11release this? If you're this judge, how can you not
- 21:15release these grand jury documents? When all of the politicians
- 21:18down here in pom beachro okay with it. Everybody's okay
- 21:22with it. So if this judge does not release these documents,
- 21:27I'm gonna have some questions. In a highly unusual step,
- 21:30a Palm Beach County judge is finally reviewing the secret
- 21:34Jeffrey Epstein grand jury testimony and will decide if, after
- 21:38seventeen years, the records will be released to the public.
- 21:42Attorneys for Palm Beach County Clerk of Court deliver the
- 21:46records to the chambers of Judge Lewis Delgado Monday morning,
- 21:50as he ordered. It's a very big deal because there
- 21:54has been a tremendous shadow of suspicion over the way
- 21:57in which the grand jury proceedings were handled. In this matter,
- 22:01said attorney Jack Scarolla, who represents ten Epstein's survivors, including
- 22:06the sole witness who testified before the grand jury. One
- 22:10witness was called up in front of that grand jury
- 22:13with everything that they had, with all of those little
- 22:16girls that came forward, these rotten sons of bitches down
- 22:19in Palm Beach decided that only the testimony of one
- 22:22girl would be used. Oh and by the way, they
- 22:25panned her whole entire credibility, talking about how she had
- 22:30pictures on MySpace of her kissing boys or drinking beer,
- 22:34as if teenagers all over the world aren't doing that
- 22:37on a daily basis. And that was what they used
- 22:40to impugne her credibility. And I'm not even talking about
- 22:44Dershowitz and the gang. I'm talking about the prosecutors themselves.
- 22:49There has been mounting pressure for the past few years
- 22:51to release the testimony because of accusations prosecutors sabotage the
- 22:56case against Abstein, who walked away in two thousand and
- 22:59eight with the sentence many described as a slap on
- 23:02the wrist. I think everybody describes it as that, besides
- 23:06Epstein and his legal team. I mean, just listen to
- 23:09Alan Dershowitz prattle on and on about how Jeffrey Epstein
- 23:12didn't get a sweetheart deal and how he was treated
- 23:16like anyone else would have been treated. Imagine the audacity
- 23:20of mister, I kept my underpants on to try and
- 23:23pitch that bullshit? Do you? Following a request from Governor
- 23:27Ron DeSantis's office and a lawsuit by the Palm Beach Post,
- 23:31two different judges declined to unseal the testimony, citing Florida
- 23:35law that does not allow grand jury proceedings to become public.
- 23:40In May, the Fourth District Court of Appeals reversed the
- 23:44latest refusal, saying the trial court could make that decision
- 23:48if it determined unsealing would further justice. So you tell
- 23:52me how it won't further justice. This is a national
- 23:55security We're talking about a man who's been dead now
- 23:59multiple years. We're talking about a case that has already
- 24:02been tried, and there's not going to be any precedent
- 24:05because they're making a special allowance for these transcripts. So
- 24:09please tell me how it's not a good idea to
- 24:12release this and make it public, unless, of course, you're
- 24:15trying to hide something. The case was assigned to a
- 24:19third judge, Delgado, who ordered the clerk's office to produce
- 24:22the records by ten am on Monday. However, there wasn't
- 24:27much to produce. Attorneys walked in with a manila envelope
- 24:31and some pages on top labeled Grand Jury Clerk Court.
- 24:35Joseph Abruzzo told w PBF twenty five news investigative reporter
- 24:41Terry Parker the records did include audio recordings. Those recordings
- 24:46should reveal whether or not the state presented all of
- 24:50the evidence of Epstein's underage sex trafficking ring or for
- 24:54some reason did not. Well, we know what the some
- 24:57reason is. When you're powerful and you have a few bucks,
- 25:01the laws are different for you. For the rest of us, well,
- 25:04we have to dance to the tune that's being played
- 25:07by these smarmy sons of bitches. But people like Jeffrey Epstein,
- 25:11well he's the fucking maestro. Scrolla doesn't understand why the
- 25:15many other victims police interviewed weren't allowed to testify, and
- 25:19he says the state grilled is sixteen year old client
- 25:22as though she was the one who was on trial.
- 25:25It's outrageous. A child victim is a child victim. To
- 25:29characterize this child as a prostitute is just so outrageous
- 25:33and it's hard to believe that anyone could have thought inappropriate,
- 25:37said Scrola. One hundred percent, this kid wasn't a prostitute.
- 25:43Just because Epstein gave her a few bucks doesn't make
- 25:46her a prostitute. And when you say it like that,
- 25:49you're acting like she's out here on the blade working
- 25:52for a pim. That wasn't what happened. She got sucked
- 25:55in to this scene of opulence that was inhabited by
- 25:59Sealy Uppercross people. And when you're a kid from the
- 26:03other side of the tracks, that shit goes a long way.
- 26:06So if it's normal to them, it has to be
- 26:08normal to you, right, So don't call these girls prostitutes.
- 26:12These were little kids who were manipulated and abused by
- 26:16this sick fuck bag, Scrolla said. Prosecutors brought up the
- 26:20teen's use of MySpace and a relationships with teen boys.
- 26:24A grand jury indicted Epstein on a single misdemeanor charge
- 26:27of soliciting an underage prostitute, a charge so minor itt
- 26:32outraged police and Epstein's bewildered victims. A second minor charge
- 26:37was later added, and Epstein was convicted and sentenced to
- 26:41eighteen months, but spent only thirteen months, partly behind bars
- 26:45in a work release program. It is now up to
- 26:48Judge Delgado to privately review the Epstein grand jury testimony
- 26:53and decide if its release would help further justice. Grand
- 26:58jury testimony has never been released before in Palm Beach
- 27:01County history, but now with Epstein dead and so much
- 27:05worldwide interest in his case, Scarolla says he thinks there
- 27:09should be an exception. I think it's very likely that
- 27:12he is going to find that the interests of justice
- 27:15will be served by releasing the grand jury proceedings, said Scrolla.
- 27:20Delgado told Parker he was not sure how long it
- 27:23will take him to review the case and issue his order,
- 27:26but said he usually works fairly quickly. Both current State
- 27:31Attorney Dave Ahrenberg, who was not in office during the
- 27:34Epstein prosecution, and Clerk of Court Joseph Abruzzo said they
- 27:39are in favor of releasing the testimony. So I've been
- 27:43waiting for this for quite some time, as you're all aware,
- 27:46and I really really hope that we get not only
- 27:49a look at it, but hopefully they release this audio
- 27:53that we hear about here as well, and according to
- 27:55Judge Delgado, he works relatively quickly, so we'll keep our
- 27:59ear to them, and as soon as we have any
- 28:03kind of information one way or the other, we'll make
- 28:06sure that we get it added to the catalog. All right, folks,
- 28:10that's gonna do it for now. All of the information
- 28:13that goes with the episode, including the Patreon page if
- 28:16you don't want to deal with commercials anymore, can be
- 28:19found in the description box. What's up, everyone, and welcome
- 28:23back to the Epstein Chronicles. Jess Day and Jeffrey Epstein.
- 28:30We're obviously a lot closer than Jess Daily wants to
- 28:34let on, and as we learn more information from this
- 28:38lawsuit as far as some of the details, as far
- 28:41as those emails and the conversations that they were having,
- 28:45it fills in a lot of the blanks and it
- 28:48confirms a lot of the rumor out there about Jess
- 28:50Daily and his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. And now we're
- 28:55learning that not only were they having these weird ass
- 28:59conversations using code word and all kinds of other goofy stuff,
- 29:04Epstein allegedly sent Jess Staley a photo of a young
- 29:09woman in a sexually suggestive pose. And that's according to
- 29:13Judge Raykoff himself, And he also released a fifty four
- 29:17page filing explaining why he made the rulings that he made.
- 29:21And over the course of the next few days, we're
- 29:23gonna dive a little deeper into those court rulings and
- 29:26into some of those filings and pick out some of
- 29:29the more interesting parts to talk about here on the podcast.
- 29:34But before we get there, Long Crime has an article out,
- 29:38and this article is talking about the photo that was
- 29:41allegedly sent to Jess Day by Jeffrey Epstein. So let's
- 29:46get this quick update and let's see where we're at. Headline,
- 29:50Jeffrey Epstein sent ex senior JP Morgan exec photo of
- 29:55young woman in sexually suggestive pose. The judge says this.
- 30:00This article was authored by Adam Klassfeld, then top JP
- 30:06Morgan Chase executive. Jess Staley allegedly abused some of Jeffrey
- 30:11Epstein's victims and received a sexually suggestive photograph of one
- 30:15young woman from the now deceased pedophile, a judge indicated
- 30:19in a ruling, and again this isn't innuendo, This isn't
- 30:23some knucklehead sitting on Twitter just talking nonsense. This is
- 30:27what the judge who's overseeing this case had to say,
- 30:31and this is all part of why he's letting this
- 30:33ruling move forward. He finds merit in what these survivors,
- 30:37what these victims have to say, and considering everything we
- 30:41know about the relationship between Jess Staley and Jeffrey Epstein,
- 30:46I don't know how, as a judge or anyone in
- 30:48a position of power, how you wouldn't be interested in
- 30:52learning more and having this progress to a point where
- 30:55we're at discovery, where people are being deposed, and to
- 30:59where things getting aired out in open court. Because we
- 31:03all know that transparency is the best medicine here, and
- 31:06we also know that that's the reason why nothing has
- 31:09ever really been transparent when we're talking about Epstein. If
- 31:13the false narrative surrounding Epstein ever broke down and the
- 31:17regular old Joe found out the real story, forget it,
- 31:21because people, for the most part, only know a part
- 31:24of the story as far as Epstein's concerned. They only
- 31:27know the little tidbits that have been on TV or
- 31:30that have been in documentaries like Filthy Rich. The average
- 31:35person doesn't understand the levels of the corruption surrounding this dude,
- 31:39or how deeply he was entrenched at basically every level
- 31:44of power, from the local municipality level all the way
- 31:47up to the White House where he was visiting seventeen times.
- 31:53Released on Monday afternoon, Senior US District Judge Jed Raycoff's
- 31:57fifty four page opinion and order why he advanced claims
- 32:02alleging that JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank knowingly profited from
- 32:06Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking scheme. Raykoff revealed new details about
- 32:12the bank and its former executives in explaining his reasoning.
- 32:17And I have to tell you, I was on the
- 32:18fence about Judge Rakoff and his decisions and if he
- 32:22was gonna let this move forward. I'm honestly surprised that
- 32:25we're at the point we're at, because it's very rare
- 32:28that an institution like JP Morgan or people like Jess
- 32:33Staley or Jamie Diamond are held accountable for anything. Usually
- 32:38people like this will get a fine and they'll keep
- 32:40it moving, and there's never any real accountability or anybody
- 32:44really facing serious consequences. And that's because these institutions have
- 32:49so much money that they're able to just pay their
- 32:52way out of any trouble they ever find themselves in.
- 32:56And this is how it's been historically for the banks forever.
- 33:00The financial sector is able to do basically whatever they want.
- 33:04Because who do you think is funding all of your
- 33:07favorite politicians? Do you think they got to Washington, DC
- 33:11on your twenty dollars donation? They absolutely did not. They
- 33:14got there by all of their handlers and by all
- 33:17of their bag boys working in the financial sector who
- 33:20are giving them money hand over fist. And then when
- 33:24they give them that money, well they expect something in return. Right.
- 33:28This isn't charity, This isn't all truism. This is nothing
- 33:32more than pay to play politics. We'll give you the
- 33:35money to get elected, then you, as the lawmaker, will
- 33:38make sure that we have favorable laws on the books
- 33:41so that we can maneuver and continue to get rich
- 33:44by pilfering the wealth of everybody else. The most prominent
- 33:47among these bankers is Staley, who later moved on to
- 33:50become the CEO of Barclay's Bank, before resigning amid scrutiny
- 33:55of his Epstein ties. JP Morgan has tried to shift
- 33:58the blame to Staley in a separate lawsuit, claiming that
- 34:02their former executive disguised his Epstein ties for personal reasons.
- 34:07Jane Doe, the anonymous woman suing JP Morgan in a
- 34:11proposed class action, claimed in a deposition that Staley sexually
- 34:15abused her. So, look, we're not talking about just financial
- 34:19enabling here, right, because we all know that there's levels
- 34:22to this. And while Staley has always been rumored to
- 34:26be really close with Epstein, we had never really seen
- 34:29any public accusations about Staley being involved in the actual abuse. Now,
- 34:35behind the scenes, that's a whole different story. Rumors have
- 34:38been rampant for a very long time that not only
- 34:41Jeff Staley, but other people involved with Jeffrey Epstein financially
- 34:45took part in this abuse. And we have had several names,
- 34:49prominent names thrown out there by Virginia Roberts and others.
- 34:54But how many girls, behind the scenes, women who have
- 34:56never come forward, were abused by Jeffrey Epstein and his
- 35:00gross ass pals, and still to this day having come
- 35:03forward with those allegations. My guess is that's in the
- 35:07hundreds and that's not even hyperbole. We're talking about decades
- 35:10of abuse where this man continuously did what he was doing.
- 35:15You don't take a break from this. This behavior was
- 35:18Epstein's thing. It wasn't something he could turn on and off.
- 35:21This is how he rolled all the time. So how
- 35:24many hundreds thousands of women are out there that we
- 35:27have never even heard from? Women in war torn countries,
- 35:30women in places of great poverty. It's a wide known
- 35:34fact that Jeffrey Epstein loved to use places like Eastern
- 35:38Europe to find women to abuse. So how many are
- 35:42out there that we have never heard from? Raykoff's ruling
- 35:45suggests that she's not his only accuser. The judge noted
- 35:49that the women in the class alleged that mister Staley
- 35:52himself abused some of Epstein's survivors, including JPM Jane Doe
- 35:57herself abbreviating JP Morgan. So that's what they're calling Jane
- 36:02Doe in the JP Morgan suit, JP Jane Doe. So
- 36:07that's what he's referring to her as in his ruling.
- 36:09And as we go through these stories, these articles, I'm
- 36:13sure that's what he's going to be referring to Jane
- 36:16Doe as from here on out, And like I said
- 36:18in the last episode, there are certainly some hints as
- 36:22to who Jane Doe is, but until that name is announced,
- 36:25if it's ever announced, I'm not going to jump in
- 36:28here and really dive too deep and try and unfurl
- 36:31who that person is. They filed this lawsuit in an
- 36:35anonymous fashion for a reason, right, But I will say
- 36:39that they didn't do a great job in masking the
- 36:42person's identity. If you're following along with the story and
- 36:46you're looking at the allegations in the lawsuit and certain
- 36:49facts that they point out, JPM Jane Doe claims that
- 36:54one of Epstein's friends, whom she later identified as mister Staley,
- 36:59used aggressive four in his sexual assault of her and
- 37:02informed JPM Jane Doe that he had Epstein's permission to
- 37:06do what he wanted to her. The ruling states. In
- 37:09a separate lawsuit, the Virgin Islands government unsealed eye opening
- 37:13details about Staley and Epstein's relationship. The Attorney General's office
- 37:18there claims that Epstein exchanged approximately one thousand, two hundred
- 37:22emails with Staley's work email address, between two thousand and
- 37:26eight and twenty twelve. They didn't even set up like
- 37:30burner accounts or anything. They were so brazen and not
- 37:33worried that they were ever going to face any kind
- 37:35of scrutiny that they were like, we'll just have these
- 37:37conversations out in the open on your work email account.
- 37:42And thankfully they did, because if they didn't, we might
- 37:45not have ever seen any of the contents of those emails.
- 37:49These communications show a close personal relationship and profound friendship
- 37:54between the two men, and even suggests that Staley may
- 37:58have been involved in the Epstein sex trafficking operation. The
- 38:02Virgin Islands lawsuit states heavy words, right, and again, we're
- 38:06not talking about somebody making allegations from the peanut gallery.
- 38:10This is the Attorney General's Office of the US Virgin Islands.
- 38:15So these are serious accusations and the judge is certainly
- 38:19treating them as such. In December two thousand and nine,
- 38:22well after Epstein's conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor,
- 38:27Epstein allegedly sends daily to emails, each showing a photograph
- 38:31of a young woman. Those images are redacted entirely in
- 38:35the Virgin Islands complaint, but Judge Raykoff describes one of
- 38:39them in his ruling. One of them, dated December fifth,
- 38:43two thousand and nine, attached a picture of a young
- 38:46woman in a sexually suggestive pose, the judge said. The
- 38:50ruling notes that another email from December twentieth, two thousand
- 38:54and nine consisted entirely of a picture of a young woman.
- 38:58So who are these young women and are they people
- 39:00that have been previously known as accusers? We probably will
- 39:04never know. I'm just asking that as a rhetorical question.
- 39:08At this point. Staley's attorney didn't immediately respond to an
- 39:12email requesting comment. I mean, what do you say to
- 39:15something like that? As the attorney, No, Comment's probably the
- 39:19right way to go. You have the judge coming out
- 39:21here and making what can only be called inflammatory remarks
- 39:25in his ruling, and certainly not remarks that are friendly
- 39:28to Jeff Staley or to JP Morgan. So it's gonna
- 39:32be very very interesting to watch this all unfold and
- 39:35to see what happens come trial time in October. So
- 39:39until then, we'll continue to add pieces to the puzzle
- 39:42until a full HD picture appears. All right, everybody, that's
- 39:47gonna do it for this one. All of the information
- 39:49that goes with the episode can be found in the
- 39:52description box. What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode
- 39:56of the Epstein Chronicles. There's one thing about the Jeffrey
- 40:00Epstein's story that cuts through all the noise, all the
- 40:03pr spin, and all the eye had no idea excuses,
- 40:07and that's the money. Because money doesn't care about image
- 40:10or legacy or royal titles. It doesn't get nervous under oath.
- 40:14It doesn't change its story. It doesn't vanish into the night,
- 40:17no matter how many powerful hands try to bury it.
- 40:20Money tells the truth even when everyone else is lying.
- 40:24You can destroy emails, shred flight logs, buy silence, or
- 40:28run pr campaigns until the end of time. But the
- 40:30money trail that's permanent ink. That's the truth carved into ledgers,
- 40:35transfers and transactions that never stop whispering who really pulled
- 40:40the strings. And that's why it's the single most effective
- 40:43weapon left to hold Epstein's enablers accountable, because, let's be honest,
- 40:48we all know how this goes. The most horrific crimes
- 40:51get tangled in power, influence, and corruption until they're unrecognizable.
- 40:55The victims are dismissed, the lawyers are threatened, and the
- 40:59institutions designed to protect justice suddenly develop a chronic case
- 41:03of cowardice. So, yeah, we might not ever see half
- 41:06the people face judgment for the things they actually did,
- 41:09the human wreckage they left behind. But you start pulling
- 41:12out the threat of money, and it doesn't matter how
- 41:14many offshore accounts they've got. It all unravels. Wire transfers
- 41:18don't lie, bank statements don't forget. Every dollar that moved
- 41:21through Epstein's network was a footprint left and what cement
- 41:25leading right back to the ones who made them untouchable
- 41:28for so long. And when you really look at it,
- 41:30you start to understand why so many people are terrified
- 41:33of the financial side of the story. And that's because
- 41:36it's not abstract. It's not a rumor or speculation. Its receipts,
- 41:42hard data col proof. It's not just who flew on
- 41:45his jet, it's who co mingled funds with them, who
- 41:48invested into shell companies, who allowed them to move millions
- 41:51while knowing damn well where the money came from. And
- 41:54once those ledgers are laid bare, it becomes painfully obvious
- 41:57that Epstein wasn't just some perverted billionaire with a secret island.
- 42:02He was a financial hub, a central artery for the
- 42:04powerful to move money, hide assets, and trade favors in
- 42:08ways that blurred the line between crime and privilege. That's
- 42:12why these lawsuits against Bank of Melon and Bank of
- 42:15America aren't just procedural, they're seismic, because they force open
- 42:19the vaults that have been sealed for years. These banks
- 42:23weren't passive players or innocent bystanders. They were the quiet
- 42:26custodians of corruption. The vaults that didn't just store money,
- 42:30they stored secrets. They saw the suspicious activity reports, the
- 42:34red flags, the cash flow that didn't add up, and
- 42:37they looked the other way. Why because money that dirty
- 42:41still spends. Because when you're dealing with someone like Epstein,
- 42:44silence is profitable and wilful blindness is a business strategy.
- 42:48But now the spotlight swinging their way, and the deeper
- 42:51these lawsuits dig, the more uncomfortable names are going to surface. CEOs,
- 42:56hedge fund managers, lawyers, royal friends are all in there,
- 43:00tangled up in a web of wires and deposits, and
- 43:03the beauty of it is they can't gaslight the numbers.
- 43:06They can't spin a spreadsheet when the numbers don't lie,
- 43:09neither can they look. We may never get the cinematic
- 43:13version of justice, the one where the whole rotten elite
- 43:15lineup gets frog marched into court, But this is how
- 43:18it really happens in the real world, Quietly, methodically, with subpoenas, audits,
- 43:23and financial forensics. This is how you burn down the
- 43:26infrastructure that protected Epstein long after he should have been exposed.
- 43:31You follow the dollars and you find the disease. You
- 43:34pull on one transaction and suddenly the whole, ugly truth
- 43:37starts pouring out. Follow the money and you don't just
- 43:40find Epstein. You find the ecosystem that built them, the
- 43:44bankers who banked them, the execs who backed them, the
- 43:46institutions that made them legitimate. And once that light hits
- 43:50the books, no one walks away clean. That's where accountability
- 43:54lives now, not in courtroom speeches or press releases, but
- 43:58in the raw, on, flinching vain of greed. Follow the
- 44:02money and you'll find the rot. Follow the money and
- 44:05you'll finally see who stood behind the monster when the
- 44:07lights went out, and who made damn sure he never
- 44:11had to stand alone. Today's article is from The Business
- 44:15Insider and the headline judge puts epstein victim lawsuits against
- 44:18Bank of America and bn Y on the fast track.
- 44:22This article was authored by Jacob Shamsian. A pair of
- 44:27lawsuits against banks from Jeffrey Epstein's victims is going on
- 44:31the fast track. At a Monday hearing, US District Judge
- 44:35Jed Rakoff ordered lawyers to comply with the quick turnaround
- 44:38deadlines for the cases which were filed against Bank of
- 44:41America and bn Why. And look, that's a good thing
- 44:44in my opinion. The faster this gets under way, the
- 44:47better off everyone's gonna be. And one thing we learned
- 44:49from the banks the last time around is they like
- 44:52to slow walk all this. They want a slow walk discovery.
- 44:55They want to slow walk any kind of information being
- 44:58handed over. The use everything in their power when it
- 45:02comes to legal procedure to do so. The two lawsuits
- 45:06filed in October alleged to the banks ignored red flags
- 45:09related to Epstein's sex trafficking operation. Rakeoff set November deadlines
- 45:14for motions to dismiss the cases, with an oral argument
- 45:17for December fifteenth, the judge ordered that all discovery, including depositions,
- 45:22must be completed by February twenty seventh. So that is
- 45:26quite the timeline, and I can only imagine how many
- 45:28depositions they're going to want to get through. Look how
- 45:31many we saw with Virginia and Glenn Maxwell, and then
- 45:35look at how many we saw when it came to
- 45:36JP Morgan and the USVII lawsuit. So this is a
- 45:40pretty ambitious timeline. But I'm guessing that Judge Rakeoff knows
- 45:45what he's doing. Certainly not his first rodeo, if you will.
- 45:49If the cases go to trial, they'll be back to
- 45:51back in May and June of twenty twenty six, Racoff said.
- 45:55The lawsuit against Bank of America alleges that one of
- 45:58Epstein's employees instructed one of his victims to open an
- 46:01account with the bank in her own name and then
- 46:04used it to pay her rent while Epstein's sexually abused
- 46:07her over the course of several years. The account was
- 46:10also used for other purposes, which may have facilitated the
- 46:13sex trafficking of other women. The lawsuit a ledges, well, look,
- 46:17we all know that that's what was happening. Epstein would
- 46:20bring these girls over, whether it was through Jean lu
- 46:23Brunel or otherwise, set them up at the apartment building
- 46:27at E sixty six, and then from there, well, the
- 46:30abuse would begin, and the vast majority of these women
- 46:34were then sent back to their home countries with no
- 46:37sort of justice ever come in their way. And that
- 46:41was all part of the plan, right. The women with
- 46:44no names, that's what I call them. And while they
- 46:47might not have voices, they're certainly not forgotten, not by
- 46:50anybody who's following along, because that's a big part of
- 46:53what went on here. One of the biggest reasons that
- 46:56they did that, that they chose those women, is so
- 46:58that when we got to this point where people were
- 47:00looking into them, they had that plausible deniability, and that
- 47:05was baked into it, right, And that was all part
- 47:07of the plan, and for all these years it worked
- 47:10out well. But now people are hip to it. Everybody
- 47:13knows what Jean Luke Brunel was up to. Everybody knows
- 47:16what Epstein was up to. The only question is can
- 47:19we prove it when it comes to the banks, And
- 47:23I still think that's gonna be a very, very very
- 47:26large hill to cline. Now the banks might settle, but
- 47:29getting them to admit fault, that's gonna be tough. The
- 47:33lawsuit against BNY alleged the financial institution processed three hundred
- 47:37and seventy eight million in payments to Epstein's victims while
- 47:40failing to flag those transactions as suspicious. Three hundred and
- 47:45seventy eight million dollars three hundred and seventy eight million
- 47:48dollars paid out to victims. Sure, this is just one
- 47:52guy with proclivities. I'm sure that there was nobody else involved,
- 47:56nobody whatsoever. Imagine being that big of a more on
- 48:00to actually believe that, like you must have CTE because
- 48:04there's no other explanation for it. I wish somebody out
- 48:07there would give me one plausible explanation as to what
- 48:11Epstein was doing with all that money being sent to
- 48:13women that were being abused or were co conspirators. My
- 48:18email box is open. Please send me the explanation, because
- 48:22nobody out there that tries to talk shit, that tries
- 48:25to say that this is fake ever has an explanation
- 48:28for where all the money was going. The biggest criticism
- 48:30they have is against Virginia because she dropped the lawsuit
- 48:34against Dershowitz, And we all know that she dropped that
- 48:37lawsuit not because she misremembered. It was because she had enough.
- 48:41How many lawsuits can somebody go through? And at what
- 48:44point do you say to yourself? Enough is enough? No
- 48:47matter how much I tell people, no matter what I do,
- 48:50there's never any justice. So look, I didn't talk to
- 48:53Virginia about that directly before she passed away, but I
- 48:56think that's what was going on. You have to remember,
- 48:58this is a woman that's been embroiled in these lawsuits
- 49:01now for more than a decade, and that takes its toll.
- 49:05It's expensive, she has kids, she's getting dragged in the mud.
- 49:09You know, at some point you say to yourself is
- 49:11it worth it? And for Virginia, the juice wasn't worth
- 49:15the squeeze anymore. But of course that's what they cling onto. Well,
- 49:19Virginia misremembered Alan Dershowitz, so she must have misremembered everything else. Well,
- 49:24I guess if you're looking at it with just a
- 49:26black and white view, I can see how you can
- 49:29come away with that conclusion. But we know that it's
- 49:31much deeper than that, much more nuanced, and there's many
- 49:34more layers than just black and white. The claims in
- 49:39the lawsuit are meritless and we will vigorously defend against it,
- 49:42A BNY spokesperson Toll business insider, a Bank of America spokesperson,
- 49:47said the bank will vigorously defend itself. Well good, if
- 49:50you're not guilty, that's what you should do. But I
- 49:53have a funny feeling this is all talk, Just like
- 49:56with JP Morgan. We're not gonna settle with anybody. We're
- 49:59gonna defend our name. What did they do? They settled?
- 50:03Prince Andrew. I'm willing to talk to anybody, the authorities.
- 50:07I want to clear my name. What did he do
- 50:09he settled? I wonder why Epstein killed himself in jail
- 50:14in twenty nineteen while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Maxwell,
- 50:18his former partner, you mean, co conspirator, general, all around scumbag, fellow,
- 50:22child abuser, and bipudal Serpent, was convicted of trafficking girls
- 50:26to him for sex in twenty twenty one and is
- 50:29serving a twenty year prison sentence. Both lawsuits could help
- 50:33shed light on how Epstein made and moved it around
- 50:36his money. His estate was valued at about six hundred
- 50:39and thirty million at the time of his death, and
- 50:42we know that that's just a fraction of what he
- 50:44actually had. We don't know what he had in the
- 50:46art market or offshore or crypto or anything like that.
- 50:51And that's because there's never been a true forensic look
- 50:54at the money trail. Ask yourself why both lawsuits were
- 50:59being brought by lawyers at Boys and Chiller and Flexner,
- 51:02along with attorneys Brad Edwards and Britney Anderson, who have
- 51:06collectively represented more than one hundred Epstein victims over the years.
- 51:10The attorneys filed similar lawsuits in late twenty twenty two
- 51:14against JP Morgan, Chase and Deutsche Bank. Rakoff, who also
- 51:18oversaw those lawsuits, put them on the fast track as well.
- 51:22JP Morgan agreed to settle the case for two hundred
- 51:25and ninety million, Deutsche Bank agreed to settle for seventy
- 51:28five million. Bn Y is represented by Wilmer Hill with
- 51:32some of the same attorneys who represented JP Morgan in
- 51:35the lawsuit against the bank. Bank of America is represented
- 51:39by the big law firm Jones Day. At the end
- 51:43of Monday's hearing, Raykoff said that he hoped that the
- 51:45parties would not settle the lawsuits with lawyers of this
- 51:49supreme quality. If this case settles, I will be extraordinarily
- 51:52disappointed because I will be deprived of two fantastic trials
- 51:56by excellent lawyers. Raykoff said, Now, I don't want to
- 51:59discourage you from settling. There are some of my colleagues
- 52:02that think settling is always a way to go. But
- 52:05I'm much more selfish, and I would love to see
- 52:07two very good trials. Boy, from your mouth to God's ears,
- 52:11mister Raykoff, We're all on board with that. But unfortunately,
- 52:15I just don't see it happening. They're gonna get discovery
- 52:19and their lawyers are gonna vomit, and they're gonna say
- 52:21to the banks, look, we better settle, because if not,
- 52:25the pain train is on its way. So let's hope
- 52:28that they don't settle. Let's hope they go to trial.
- 52:30Let's hope that at the end of the day they're
- 52:33Hubris gets the best of them. And while that's certainly
- 52:36my hope, I'm not holding my breath because one thing
- 52:39we know about the banks is they're not going to
- 52:41expose themselves more than they have to. So if they
- 52:44think that they're gonna be exposed. The last thing they're
- 52:47gonna do is try and get into this prolonged, you know,
- 52:50court case where they have to go through discovery, deposition,
- 52:53the whole thing. So my guess is we're not gonna
- 52:56see a trial here, but like usual, we'll keep an
- 52:59eye on things and see how it all breaks. As
- 53:02for this one, well that's going to do it. All
- 53:04of the information that goes with this episode can be
- 53:07found in the description box.