Latest / The Vault: The Epstein Files / Mega Edition: Did Jamie Dimon Know Who And What Epstein Was? (10/27/26)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
- 0:04Speaker 1: For as long as we can remember, all we've heard
- 0:07Speaker 1: from Jamie Dimon is that he never discussed what Epstein
- 0:11Speaker 1: was up to, what Epstein was doing, or that Epstein
- 0:15Speaker 1: was even a client at the bank. Now, though, in
- 0:18Speaker 1: court documents, we're hearing from Jeff Staley, and I know
- 0:22Speaker 1: this is going to be a shocker to you, has
- 0:24Speaker 1: said that Jamie Dimon did in fact know about Jeffrey
- 0:28Speaker 1: Epstein and and the fact that Epstein was a no-good
- 0:31Speaker 1: son of a bitch.
- 0:32Speaker 2: And for all of these years, J.P.
- 0:34Speaker 1: Morgan, Jamie Dimon, Jez Staley, Leon Black, all of the
- 0:39Speaker 1: rest of them have been able to get away with
- 0:41Speaker 1: this nonsense because nobody called them out on it.
- 0:45Speaker 2: However, now, the U.S.
- 0:46Speaker 1: Virgin Islands, as they search for that bag again, well,
- 0:50Speaker 1: they have no qualms calling them out, even though they're
- 0:53Speaker 1: exposing their own hypocrisy. It's also revealing a lot of
- 0:57Speaker 1: things that we already knew. And it's also confirming a
- 1:01Speaker 1: lot of things that we already knew. And one of
- 1:04Speaker 1: those things is this, that JP Morgan played a critical
- 1:08Speaker 1: role in what Jeffrey Epstein was up to. And that
- 1:11Speaker 1: Jamie Dimon and all of the other executives, they were
- 1:15Speaker 1: on board. And as long as those checks were cashed
- 1:18Speaker 1: and that envelope wasn't coming in light, everything was all good.
- 1:23Speaker 1: But now when the spotlight turns to them, Look how
- 1:26Speaker 1: quick everybody is to point their finger at somebody else.
- 1:30Speaker 1: Nobody wants to take responsibility. Nobody wants to step up
- 1:33Speaker 1: and say, look, I could have stopped this. And that's
- 1:36Speaker 1: because they were all complicit. If there was a good
- 1:39Speaker 1: guy amongst them or a good woman amongst them, then
- 1:42Speaker 1: somebody would have stepped up behind the scenes, whatever, and
- 1:45Speaker 1: been a whistleblower. And nothing like that ever occurred. Not
- 1:48Speaker 1: one of these executives who got these emails ever lifted
- 1:52Speaker 1: a finger or to call anybody, to try and stop
- 1:55Speaker 1: Epstein from doing what he was doing, to alert anybody
- 1:58Speaker 1: that he's engaged in all kinds of financial malfeasance. They
- 2:02Speaker 1: just let him do whatever he wanted to do for
- 2:05Speaker 1: all of these years. And for Jamie Dimon to act
- 2:08Speaker 1: like he had no idea, I always said that was
- 2:10Speaker 1: a bunch of absolute bullshit. In any bureaucracy or corporation,
- 2:16Speaker 1: big decisions aren't made by middle managers. The only people
- 2:19Speaker 1: who don't know that are people who have never worked
- 2:22Speaker 1: in corporate America. For those of us who have been
- 2:24Speaker 1: getting shit on by corporations and people exactly like Jamie Dimon,
- 2:29Speaker 1: we know exactly who we're dealing with and how they
- 2:31Speaker 1: feel about us. And Dimon and his merry bunch of
- 2:34Speaker 1: financial jerk-offs over here, they thought that they were never
- 2:37Speaker 1: going to have to answer, under oath, about their relationship
- 2:41Speaker 1: with Epstein. so they could make whatever statements they want
- 2:43Speaker 1: in public. Oh, we never hung out with him. We
- 2:46Speaker 1: never did this. We never did that. Same goes for
- 2:48Speaker 1: guys like Bill Gates. And then, after it's revealed that
- 2:52Speaker 1: that was a big-ass lie, the media's just like, oh, okay,
- 2:55Speaker 1: no big deal.
- 2:56Speaker 2: He misremembered. Let's move on.
- 2:58Speaker 1: Instead, they should be digging their heels in and trying
- 3:01Speaker 1: to get to the bottom of the story. But they
- 3:04Speaker 1: don't care about the truth, do they? If they can't
- 3:06Speaker 1: wield it as a political cudgel, then forget about it.
- 3:10Speaker 1: Today's article is from MarketWatch. Headline, former JP Morgan executive,
- 3:16Speaker 1: Jess Daly, says he talked with Jamie Dimon about Jeffrey Epstein. Now,
- 3:22Speaker 1: for those of you out there who have worked in
- 3:23Speaker 1: corporate America, have you ever had a giant client that
- 3:27Speaker 1: your boss knew nothing about? That your boss had no
- 3:30Speaker 1: idea was even part of the fabric of what was
- 3:33Speaker 1: going on in the company? Because I certainly don't have
- 3:37Speaker 1: Any single experience where my bosses didn't know every single
- 3:41Speaker 1: gigantic player that was coming into my sportsbook. They knew
- 3:45Speaker 1: every single person that was walking into that sportsbook for
- 3:48Speaker 1: the most part. Anybody who was betting serious money. So
- 3:52Speaker 1: you mean to tell me that you have no idea
- 3:55Speaker 1: who you're dealing with as Jamie Diamond at JP Morgan.
- 3:58Speaker 1: And we're not talking about you or I going there
- 4:01Speaker 1: to set up an account. Of course he has no
- 4:03Speaker 1: idea who we are. We're talking about Jeffrey Epstein. Hundreds
- 4:07Speaker 1: of millions of dollars, all kinds of benefits, and you
- 4:10Speaker 1: mean to tell me, Jamie Dimon, Mr. Big Shot, knew
- 4:14Speaker 1: nothing about it. Well, I don't believe that. And as
- 4:17Speaker 1: far as Jeff Staley, he's a known liar as well,
- 4:20Speaker 1: but a broken clock is still right two times a day.
- 4:24Speaker 1: This article was authored by Steve Gelsie. former JPMorgan Chase
- 4:29Speaker 1: and company executive Jess Daly alleged in court papers that
- 4:33Speaker 1: he communicated about convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein with CEO Jamie Dimon,
- 4:39Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. So that's damning
- 4:43Speaker 1: right there. This guy is out here talking about how
- 4:46Speaker 1: he knows nothing about what was going on. Meanwhile, you
- 4:49Speaker 1: have people that were right in the mix saying something
- 4:53Speaker 1: completely different. We read it in the emails as well, right? Oh,
- 4:56Speaker 1: Jamie knew this or Jamie knew that. And for him
- 4:59Speaker 1: to get up there and say that he had no
- 5:01Speaker 1: idea is just not a statement that should be taken seriously,
- 5:05Speaker 1: in my opinion. And if he lied about it during
- 5:07Speaker 1: this deposition, that would be perjury. Would they ever go
- 5:11Speaker 1: after Diamond for perjury? I highly doubt it, but that's
- 5:14Speaker 1: why they put people under oath. So you have to
- 5:16Speaker 1: tell the truth. If not, you're facing the music. Citing
- 5:21Speaker 1: documents that have not been made public in a lawsuit
- 5:24Speaker 1: against Staley brought by J.P. Morgan, the newspaper reported that
- 5:28Speaker 1: Staley said he had conversations with Diamond about Epstein for years.
- 5:34Speaker 2: No shit.
- 5:35Speaker 1: This is about as obvious as anything ever in the
- 5:39Speaker 1: history of the world. Jeff Staley might have been a
- 5:42Speaker 1: very powerful man at JP Morgan, but he didn't have
- 5:45Speaker 1: the final say. He didn't have the final word on
- 5:49Speaker 1: what was happening. When all said and done, that's Jamie Dimon.
- 5:52Speaker 1: And remember, this shit happened on his watch. So it
- 5:55Speaker 1: can only be one of two things. Either A, you
- 5:58Speaker 1: were negligent, or B, you were involved. A JPMorgan Chase
- 6:03Speaker 1: spokesperson confirmed to MarketWatch that there is no evidence that
- 6:07Speaker 1: any such communication, as reported by the Wall Street Journal,
- 6:11Speaker 1: took place. Oh, okay, I'm sure there's no evidence whatsoever.
- 6:14Speaker 1: You know what we're going to find out, come later on,
- 6:17Speaker 1: that there's going to be disappearing emails as well. Remember
- 6:21Speaker 1: with Acosta, there's a year's worth of emails that went missing.
- 6:25Speaker 1: And why would those emails go missing? Who is he
- 6:28Speaker 1: talking to?
- 6:28Speaker 2: Oh, that's right. His superiors.
- 6:30Speaker 1: They don't want anyone to know that they made the call.
- 6:33Speaker 1: Acosta was set up as the fall guy. So my
- 6:36Speaker 1: guess is we're going to hear about deleted emails when
- 6:39Speaker 1: it comes to JP Morgan later on down the road.
- 6:42Speaker 1: And what that leaves us with is a he said,
- 6:45Speaker 1: she said kind of situation with Staley making these allegations
- 6:49Speaker 1: against Jamie Dimon. Although, we do have the emails from
- 6:53Speaker 1: the other executives talking about how Jamie Dimon knew what
- 6:57Speaker 1: was up. So, in this instance, I happen to believe
- 7:00Speaker 1: what Jeff Staley is saying here and that Jamie Dimon
- 7:03Speaker 1: was well aware of Epstein and what Epstein was doing
- 7:07Speaker 1: while a client at J.P.
- 7:09Speaker 2: Morgan.
- 7:11Speaker 1: We believe this is false, the spokesperson said. There is
- 7:14Speaker 1: no evidence that any such communication ever occurred. Nothing in
- 7:18Speaker 1: the large number of documents reviewed and nothing in the
- 7:21Speaker 1: nearly dozen depositions taken, including that our own CEO, the
- 7:26Speaker 1: one person who claims this to be true, is currently
- 7:30Speaker 1: accused of horrific acts and dishonesty and hasn't even been deposed.
- 7:35Speaker 1: Self-preservance is a motherfucker, huh? Look how quick these dudes
- 7:38Speaker 1: are to throw each other under the bus. And that's
- 7:41Speaker 1: why I said, if this was ever a RICO case,
- 7:44Speaker 1: can you imagine these idiots trying to avoid the hard
- 7:47Speaker 1: questions that would be coming their way from seasoned prosecutors
- 7:51Speaker 1: and seasoned interrogators?
- 7:54Speaker 2: It would have been a wrap.
- 7:55Speaker 1: Everybody would have been snitching on everybody, and the party
- 7:58Speaker 1: would have been over. But no, they didn't want to
- 8:01Speaker 1: do that, did they? They want to piecemeal it all
- 8:03Speaker 1: together and act like they really care. But the real
- 8:06Speaker 1: fact of the matter here is, the U.S. Virgin Islands,
- 8:09Speaker 1: if they cared, This would not be civil. This would
- 8:13Speaker 1: be a criminal matter. And instead of embarrassment and losing
- 8:17Speaker 1: your job, we'd be talking about serious jail time. Staley
- 8:22Speaker 1: alleged that Diamond communicated with him about Epstein after Epstein
- 8:26Speaker 1: was arrested in 2006, as well as when Epstein pleaded
- 8:30Speaker 1: guilty in 2008 to criminal charges in Florida. Staley, who
- 8:36Speaker 1: also alleged that Diamond communicated with him through 2012 about
- 8:41Speaker 1: whether to continue the bank's financial ties to Epstein. So
- 8:45Speaker 1: basically saying that he went to his boss to see
- 8:48Speaker 1: if it was okay, and Jamie Diamond gave his approval.
- 8:51Speaker 1: And we see that because Epstein was still at the bank, right?
- 8:54Speaker 1: If Diamond wanted Epstein gone, he could have made that happen.
- 8:57Speaker 1: He's the head honcho. He's the boss man. He could
- 9:00Speaker 1: do whatever he wants. Diamond gave a deposition in the
- 9:04Speaker 1: lawsuit on Friday and said he has no memory of
- 9:08Speaker 1: ever discussing or reviewing Epstein's accounts with Staley. The spokesperson said, Oh,
- 9:13Speaker 1: I have no memory of it. I don't know.
- 9:15Speaker 2: I might have.
- 9:17Speaker 1: I have such a great memory for numbers, but I
- 9:19Speaker 1: don't remember this conversation. And I don't remember Jeffrey Epstein
- 9:23Speaker 1: as a client even. You mean to tell me he
- 9:25Speaker 1: was banking with J.P. Morgan? That's kind of the response
- 9:28Speaker 1: we're getting here from Jamie Dimon, and I don't know
- 9:31Speaker 1: who's buying it. There are millions and millions of emails
- 9:34Speaker 1: and other documents that have been produced in this case,
- 9:37Speaker 1: and not one comes close to even suggesting that Dimon
- 9:40Speaker 1: had any role in decisions about Epstein's accounts, the spokesperson
- 9:44Speaker 1: said in an email to MarketWatch. The bank now knows
- 9:48Speaker 1: that Epstein's behavior was monstrous and that his survivors deserve justice.
- 9:55Speaker 1: In hindsight, any association with him was a mistake, and
- 9:59Speaker 1: we regret it. But these suits are misdirected, and we
- 10:02Speaker 1: did not help him commit these heinous crimes, the spokesperson said.
- 10:07Speaker 1: JP Morgan's Chase stock is down 0.2% in pre-market trades
- 10:11Speaker 1: on Wednesday. Staley, the former head of JP Morgan's private bank,
- 10:16Speaker 1: is being sued by JPMorgan Chase for his alleged role
- 10:20Speaker 1: in Epstein's financial dealings. In separate lawsuits, the government of
- 10:25Speaker 1: the U.S. Virgin Islands is suing JPMorgan over its alleged
- 10:29Speaker 1: ties with Epstein. In that legal action, JPMorgan said last
- 10:33Speaker 1: week that the government officials in the U.S. Virgin Islands
- 10:36Speaker 1: enabled Epstein.
- 10:38Speaker 2: All of you did.
- 10:39Speaker 1: Every last one of you. You should all be held accountable.
- 10:43Speaker 1: In 2019, Epstein was found dead in his prison cell
- 10:47Speaker 1: at the Metropolitan Correctional Center of an apparent suicide by
- 10:51Speaker 1: hanging while awaiting trial for sex trafficking and other charges.
- 10:56Speaker 1: Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting and procuring a minor for
- 11:00Speaker 1: prostitution in 2008 and spent time in a Florida jail
- 11:05Speaker 1: and was a registered sex offender. I mean, if you
- 11:08Speaker 1: call what he was doing, spending time in jail, okay,
- 11:10Speaker 1: but he was there like a few hours a day.
- 11:14Speaker 1: Most of his time was spent at his office. And
- 11:16Speaker 1: according to reports, while he was out on work release,
- 11:20Speaker 1: he was molesting girls. So another feather in the cap
- 11:23Speaker 1: for law enforcement when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein and
- 11:26Speaker 1: his bullshit. As far as Jeff Staley goes here and
- 11:29Speaker 1: the allegations against Jamie Dimon, I happen to believe them.
- 11:33Speaker 1: But how is he going to prove it? That's going
- 11:35Speaker 1: to be the difficult part. Maybe he has some receipts
- 11:37Speaker 1: that we don't know about.
- 11:38Speaker 2: Very possible.
- 11:39Speaker 1: Either way, you know we're going to be following along.
- 11:43Speaker 1: And as soon as we have more to share, me,
- 11:45Speaker 1: my beard, and my big mouth will be back. All right, folks,
- 11:50Speaker 1: that's going to do it for this one. All of
- 11:51Speaker 1: the information that goes with the episode can be found
- 11:55Speaker 1: in the description box. Welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
- 12:01Speaker 1: Jamie Dimon, big shot from J.P. Morgan, is sitting for
- 12:05Speaker 1: a deposition today, and he's going to be deposed for
- 12:09Speaker 1: lawsuits that accuse the bank of facilitating... and profiting from
- 12:13Speaker 1: sex trafficking by their longtime customer, Jeffrey Epstein. This comes
- 12:19Speaker 1: as the battle royale down in the US Virgin Islands
- 12:22Speaker 1: between JP Morgan, unnamed accusers, Jess Staley, and the US
- 12:27Speaker 1: Virgin Island government continues to mosh its way through the court.
- 12:33Speaker 1: So today, we're going to talk a little bit more
- 12:35Speaker 1: about Jamie Dimon and him sitting for this deposition. To
- 12:40Speaker 1: do that, we have An article from CNBC, and the
- 12:44Speaker 1: author of this article is Dan Mangan. Headline, JP Morgan
- 12:50Speaker 1: CEO Jamie Dimon faces deposition in Jeffrey Epstein lawsuits. I'm
- 12:56Speaker 1: honestly shocked that this guy is even giving these depositions.
- 13:00Speaker 1: I figured he'd find a way to weasel himself out
- 13:03Speaker 1: and not have to deal with sitting down like a
- 13:06Speaker 1: commoner and talking about what his bank might have been
- 13:09Speaker 1: up to. Guys like Jamie Dimon usually find a way
- 13:13Speaker 1: to wiggle out. Oh, my mom is sick. I have
- 13:16Speaker 1: a gopher who has an ingrown hair. You know, every
- 13:19Speaker 1: excuse under the sun. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon was
- 13:24Speaker 1: set to be deposed Friday at his bank's New York
- 13:27Speaker 1: headquarters for lawsuits that accused the company of facilitating and
- 13:32Speaker 1: profiting from sex trafficking by its longtime customer Jeffrey Epstein.
- 13:38Speaker 1: Diamond and JPMorgan, which denies any wrongdoing and liability in
- 13:42Speaker 1: the cases, earlier lost an effort to dismiss the suits
- 13:47Speaker 1: by the plaintiffs, the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands,
- 13:51Speaker 1: and an anonymous Epstein accuser. So they tried their damnedest
- 13:55Speaker 1: to get this thrown out without a jury or a
- 13:58Speaker 1: judge ever getting a real look at what was going on.
- 14:01Speaker 1: And that's always the best course of action if you're
- 14:05Speaker 1: somebody like JPMorgan, right? The last thing you want to
- 14:08Speaker 1: do is have to answer for this bullshit in court.
- 14:11Speaker 1: So if you can get it thrown out, find a
- 14:13Speaker 1: judge that's favorable to your cause, then so much the better.
- 14:18Speaker 1: But that didn't happen this time. And Judge Rakoff has
- 14:20Speaker 1: decided that they're going to have to answer for their bullshit. Now,
- 14:24Speaker 1: how far that goes once we get into the courtroom,
- 14:27Speaker 1: we all know the deal. It's going to be a
- 14:29Speaker 1: couple of wink-wink, nudge-nudges. And there's going to be a
- 14:32Speaker 1: bunch of payoffs. Besides that, there's not going to be
- 14:35Speaker 1: any kind of real punishment for anybody. What do you think,
- 14:39Speaker 1: Jamie Dimon is going to sit in the jail cell ever?
- 14:42Speaker 1: Zero chance. What do you think, Jess Daly is, even
- 14:45Speaker 1: though he's being accused of heinous crimes? If that was
- 14:49Speaker 1: any of us being accused of what Jess Daly is
- 14:51Speaker 1: being accused of, forget it. We'd be getting tarred and
- 14:55Speaker 1: feathered and dragged down to the local police station on
- 14:58Speaker 1: just allegations. But it's not good enough when it's Jeff
- 15:02Speaker 1: Staley or Glenn Dubin or George Mitchell or Bill Richardson.
- 15:07Speaker 1: The suits claim that J.P. Morgan, the biggest bank in
- 15:10Speaker 1: the United States, kept Epstein as a customer even after
- 15:14Speaker 1: learning he was being investigated for sexually abusing underage girls
- 15:18Speaker 1: in Florida and after he pleaded guilty in a state
- 15:22Speaker 1: charge there in 2008 to paying for sex from a minor.
- 15:27Speaker 1: And we all know what that paying was. That was
- 15:30Speaker 1: the hush money. What do you think? These little girls
- 15:33Speaker 1: were walking around on whatever the blade is down there
- 15:35Speaker 1: in Palm Beach and they were women of the night?
- 15:39Speaker 1: That wasn't how this worked. This dude recruited little girls
- 15:43Speaker 1: to go and recruit other little girls for him. And
- 15:46Speaker 1: it was all managed by some elder women like Ghislaine
- 15:49Speaker 1: Maxwell and Sarah Kellan Vickers who were really at the controls.
- 15:53Speaker 1: Everybody else was just a pawn, right? A piece to
- 15:57Speaker 1: be moved on the chessboard. for Epstein's desires and to
- 16:00Speaker 1: advance whatever disgusting, weird-ass plot he had cooking. The bank
- 16:07Speaker 1: is accused in the complaints in the U.S. District Court
- 16:10Speaker 1: in Manhattan of doing so in order to keep Epstein,
- 16:14Speaker 1: who kept tens of millions of dollars in accounts there,
- 16:17Speaker 1: despite internal concerns about his slimy reputation. Remember, they don't
- 16:22Speaker 1: care about your reputation. The only thing that you can
- 16:25Speaker 1: possibly do that is bad for business is be broke.
- 16:29Speaker 1: Everything else, it's game on. You want to abuse children.
- 16:33Speaker 1: You want to beat on your wife. You want to
- 16:35Speaker 1: be an arms dealer. Hell, everybody's welcomed in the elite
- 16:39Speaker 1: circles that these scumbags run in. The Virgin Islands says
- 16:43Speaker 1: Epstein used frequent cash withdrawals he made from those accounts
- 16:47Speaker 1: to pay for young women to travel to the American
- 16:49Speaker 1: territory so that he and others could abuse them at
- 16:53Speaker 1: his residence on a private island that he owned. So
- 16:57Speaker 1: where are the others? Everybody wants to talk about the
- 16:59Speaker 1: others in all of these articles. How come these journalists
- 17:03Speaker 1: don't go deeper? Okay, so they say others. Let's dig
- 17:06Speaker 1: a little deeper. Who are these others? And when you
- 17:08Speaker 1: start digging, it's rather obvious that a bunch of people
- 17:11Speaker 1: have already been named. And that's why I find it
- 17:14Speaker 1: laughable when you have people out here on Twitter and
- 17:16Speaker 1: elsewhere talking about how they're going to expose this one
- 17:20Speaker 1: or that one. Bro. When you have guys like George
- 17:23Speaker 1: Mitchell and Bill Richardson being completely exposed in this and
- 17:27Speaker 1: nothing happening, I find it so bizarre that people would
- 17:30Speaker 1: rather talk about folks like Tom Hanks and other people
- 17:34Speaker 1: in Hollywood while simply ignoring people like Ehud Barak or
- 17:38Speaker 1: ignoring people like Bill Richardson or ignoring people like George Mitchell.
- 17:44Speaker 1: It makes me wonder what their real intentions are when
- 17:46Speaker 1: they're covering or talking about this case. Because the real
- 17:50Speaker 1: meat and potatoes here, folks, are not the jesters that
- 17:53Speaker 1: get dressed up and dance for our shekels. That means
- 17:57Speaker 1: the jerk-offs in Hollywood. The real problem here are these
- 18:00Speaker 1: degenerates that were at the levers of power and still
- 18:04Speaker 1: hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein. People out here are acting
- 18:07Speaker 1: like we should be shocked that Hollywood's full of degenerates.
- 18:10Speaker 1: We already knew that. This isn't breaking news. So I'm
- 18:13Speaker 1: always skeptical of these people out here banging the drum
- 18:16Speaker 1: about this name or that name when the names of
- 18:19Speaker 1: importance that have already been dropped are out there and
- 18:23Speaker 1: none of these people that are supposedly going to expose
- 18:26Speaker 1: everything have done a damn thing. And they'll continue to
- 18:29Speaker 1: just be feckless grifters, but somehow... That generates buzz. People
- 18:34Speaker 1: want that kind of stuff, I guess. Me personally, I
- 18:37Speaker 1: don't care about all the salacious rumor. I don't care
- 18:41Speaker 1: about Tom Hanks. I don't care about none of that.
- 18:44Speaker 1: You know what I care about? The facts right here
- 18:46Speaker 1: in front of my face. Things that have been in
- 18:48Speaker 1: court documents that people in the legacy media even can't dispute.
- 18:54Speaker 1: Those are the things that we should be pushing forward.
- 18:57Speaker 1: That's the ball that should be carried over the goal line.
- 19:00Speaker 1: But the sad truth is, this space, like just about
- 19:04Speaker 1: any other, is populated with a bunch of charlatans, grifters, liars,
- 19:09Speaker 1: and con artists. I have this secret information. And if
- 19:12Speaker 1: you subscribe to my newsletter for the mere price of $ 4. 99
- 19:16Speaker 1: a month, that information can be yours too. Every time
- 19:20Speaker 1: I see garbage like that, I want to reach for
- 19:22Speaker 1: the Drano and drink it. Human trafficking was the principal
- 19:26Speaker 1: business of the accounts Epstein maintained at J.P. Morgan, the
- 19:30Speaker 1: Virgin Islands suit says. Diamond's deposition is being taken in private.
- 19:35Speaker 1: The questions he has asked and the answers he gives
- 19:39Speaker 1: would only become public if they are used in court
- 19:41Speaker 1: filings and proceedings or if they are leaked. And I
- 19:45Speaker 1: would never rule that out. You never know when we're
- 19:48Speaker 1: talking about court transcripts here. we're not talking about grand
- 19:51Speaker 1: jury transcripts, so there's always a chance, minuscule, but there's
- 19:55Speaker 1: always a chance that this stuff does get dumped.
- 19:59Speaker 2: J.P.
- 19:59Speaker 1: Morgan didn't immediately respond to CNBC's request for comment. In
- 20:04Speaker 1: addition to questioning Diamond under oath, the Virgin Islands has
- 20:07Speaker 1: issued a flurry of subpoenas seeking documents related to Epstein
- 20:12Speaker 1: and J.P. Morgan from a number of high-profile people the
- 20:16Speaker 1: government suspects Epstein tried to recruit as fellow clients of
- 20:20Speaker 1: the bank. And as great as it is to see
- 20:23Speaker 1: the U.S. Virgin Islands calling out the bank here for
- 20:26Speaker 1: their role in Jeffrey Epstein's criminal enterprise, do you really
- 20:31Speaker 1: think they'd be doing that if hundreds of millions of
- 20:34Speaker 1: dollars weren't on the line? I highly doubt they would be.
- 20:38Speaker 1: Because remember, it's never been about justice here. They had
- 20:41Speaker 1: ample opportunity to meet some justice out. And they chose
- 20:44Speaker 1: not to. Instead, they chose to wet their beak at
- 20:48Speaker 1: a Jeffrey Epstein's palm. They include Tesla CEO Elon Musk,
- 20:53Speaker 1: Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, former Disney executive
- 20:58Speaker 1: Michael Ovitz, Hyatt Hotels executive chairman Thomas Pritzker, and Mort Zuckerman,
- 21:04Speaker 1: the billionaire real estate investor. Diamond's deposition comes more than
- 21:09Speaker 1: a week after Deutsche Bank agreed to pay $ 75 million
- 21:14Speaker 1: to Epstein's survivors to settle a would-be class action lawsuit
- 21:18Speaker 1: by one of his accusers. Deutsche Bank had taken on
- 21:22Speaker 1: Epstein as a customer after JP Morgan severed ties with
- 21:26Speaker 1: them in 2013 after keeping him on as a client
- 21:30Speaker 1: for 15 years. So imagine they have the audacity to
- 21:34Speaker 1: look anybody in the face and say they did the
- 21:36Speaker 1: right thing here You were in bed with an absolute
- 21:40Speaker 1: serpent for all those years, and now it's all Jeff
- 21:43Speaker 1: Staley's fault, huh? You guys had nothing to do with it.
- 21:47Speaker 1: Deutsche Bank had taken on Epstein as a customer after J.P.
- 21:51Speaker 1: Morgan severed ties with him in 2013, after keeping him
- 21:56Speaker 1: as a client for 15 years.
- 21:58Speaker 2: J.P.
- 21:58Speaker 1: Morgan has said Diamond had not reviewed Epstein's accounts when
- 22:03Speaker 1: he was a client there from 1998 through 2013. The
- 22:07Speaker 1: year that JP Morgan severed its relationship with him. So
- 22:11Speaker 1: they also want you to believe that the boss of
- 22:14Speaker 1: the whole ass company had no idea about this big
- 22:16Speaker 1: time player, Jeffrey Epstein, and never once took a look
- 22:20Speaker 1: at his file. I can say that's absolute BS. When
- 22:23Speaker 1: I was managing a sportsbook, forget it. I was going
- 22:26Speaker 1: through files all the time of our players. What their
- 22:29Speaker 1: tendency was, how much money they usually deposited or forwarded over,
- 22:34Speaker 1: how much money they took out when they left.
- 22:37Speaker 2: So I could be prepared.
- 22:38Speaker 1: And as you all know, I'm certainly no financial genius,
- 22:42Speaker 1: all right? Just some dumbass. And if I was doing it,
- 22:45Speaker 1: you mean to tell me that Jamie Dimon never once
- 22:48Speaker 1: cracked open the books for a look? If so, he's negligent.
- 22:52Speaker 1: What else did he miss? And should JP Morgan even
- 22:55Speaker 1: keep him on board? Or should they find somebody that's
- 22:58Speaker 1: going to take their job a little more serious when
- 23:01Speaker 1: it comes to compliance? Epstein died six years later from suicide, allegedly,
- 23:06Speaker 1: in a New York jail a month after federal authorities
- 23:09Speaker 1: charged him with trafficking girls for sex. You know what's
- 23:13Speaker 1: so crazy? All the people that are like gung-ho to
- 23:16Speaker 1: believe the official narrative about Jeffrey Epstein dying of suicide,
- 23:20Speaker 1: like you see in these articles, when they say it definitively,
- 23:24Speaker 1: and then they'll say, well, you know, that's what the
- 23:26Speaker 1: county coroner said. That's what the medical advisor said. Until
- 23:30Speaker 1: the next time there's a situation... and it doesn't run
- 23:33Speaker 1: with their bias. And then all of a sudden, oh, well,
- 23:37Speaker 1: what are you going to believe the government? So it's
- 23:39Speaker 1: either you believe what these people are telling you, meaning
- 23:42Speaker 1: the government, or you're skeptical of just about everything they
- 23:46Speaker 1: have to say. And I know where I fall at
- 23:49Speaker 1: this point, and I'm sure you all know where I
- 23:52Speaker 1: fall at this point. Enough with the BS, enough with
- 23:55Speaker 1: no transparency. It's about time that they just step up
- 24:00Speaker 1: and show everybody everything they have, and let's see what's what,
- 24:04Speaker 1: let the chips fall where they may. Because covering things up, obfuscating,
- 24:09Speaker 1: and acting like nothing bad happened in that jail cell
- 24:13Speaker 1: or in that jailhouse is absolutely absurd, and truly is
- 24:17Speaker 1: cognitive dissonance.
- 24:20Speaker 2: J.P. Morgan pushes back. J.P.
- 24:22Speaker 1: Morgan, in a related complaint, has said that any civil
- 24:25Speaker 1: liability it would have from Epstein's conduct is the responsibility
- 24:30Speaker 1: of its former executive, Jeff Staley, who is a friend
- 24:33Speaker 1: of Epstein and his main business contact at the bank. Staley,
- 24:38Speaker 1: who also denies any wrongdoing, earlier this week lost a
- 24:42Speaker 1: bid to dismiss JP Morgan's complaint against him, which, among
- 24:46Speaker 1: other things, seeks to recoup $ 80 million in compensation from him.
- 24:51Speaker 2: So that's just the first firing shot by them.
- 24:54Speaker 1: They also want him to be on the line for
- 24:56Speaker 1: any sort of penalty they might incur because of the
- 25:01Speaker 1: bank's relationship with Epstein. So remember, the whole entire plan
- 25:05Speaker 1: from J.P. Morgan is not us. It's everybody else's fault
- 25:10Speaker 1: but ours. And while that may be true, everybody else
- 25:13Speaker 1: might have been involved, so were they. In addition to
- 25:17Speaker 1: trying to shift blame to Staley, J.P. Morgan this week
- 25:20Speaker 1: in a court filing accused the Virgin Islands of being
- 25:23Speaker 1: complicit in the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein. The filing said
- 25:28Speaker 1: the Virgin Islands looked the other way as Epstein trafficked
- 25:31Speaker 1: young women because he was given high-ranking officials their money, advice,
- 25:36Speaker 1: and favors. The filing specifically says that Epstein paid tuition
- 25:42Speaker 1: for the children of John de Jong and his wife
- 25:46Speaker 1: Cecile when John served as Virgin Islands governor and when
- 25:50Speaker 1: Cecile worked for Epstein managing his companies in the territory.
- 25:55Speaker 1: None of this is disputable. And I remember catching some
- 25:58Speaker 1: flack for my position when it comes to the United
- 26:01Speaker 1: States Virgin Islands, Denise George, and what they were up to.
- 26:05Speaker 1: And it was all based on the fact that they
- 26:07Speaker 1: helped Jeffrey Epstein put this whole entire thing in motion.
- 26:10Speaker 1: They helped keep it going. And then the fact that
- 26:13Speaker 1: they had the audacity to try to get some money,
- 26:15Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I'm the asshole, huh? Well, I
- 26:17Speaker 1: guess I'm the asshole. But that doesn't change the fact
- 26:20Speaker 1: that the U.S. Virgin Islands was on one here. And
- 26:23Speaker 1: what they were up to is basically a lick. They
- 26:26Speaker 1: basically took this money, in my opinion. And the fact
- 26:30Speaker 1: that it was so easy for them to do so,
- 26:32Speaker 1: they figured they might as well let it rip one
- 26:35Speaker 1: more time, throw the dice, and see what happens here.
- 26:38Speaker 1: Another $ 105 million, well, that can really go a long
- 26:41Speaker 1: way to promoting and propagating our.
- 26:44Speaker 2: Corruption, right?
- 26:46Speaker 1: Cecile also allegedly made efforts to secure student visas for
- 26:50Speaker 1: young women connected to Epstein and was his primary conduit
- 26:54Speaker 1: for spreading money and influence throughout the USVI government. The
- 26:59Speaker 1: Washington Post on Friday published details of a deposition earlier
- 27:03Speaker 1: taken by Mary Erdos, who runs JPMorgan's Asset and Wealth
- 27:08Speaker 1: Management Division. Oh boy, Erdos wrote in a 2011 email
- 27:13Speaker 1: to another bank executive, after she found out Epstein's status
- 27:17Speaker 1: as a sex offender as a result of his Florida conviction,
- 27:21Speaker 1: had been affirmed, the Washington Post reported. The newspaper said
- 27:26Speaker 1: that was at least the sixth time Erdos had been
- 27:29Speaker 1: alerted to Epstein's criminal or civil legal trouble for sex crimes.
- 27:35Speaker 1: So there's the culpability right there for J.P.
- 27:38Speaker 2: Morgan.
- 27:39Speaker 1: Them trying to weasel their way out It's not going
- 27:42Speaker 1: to work.
- 27:42Speaker 2: But I do.
- 27:43Speaker 1: Appreciate the attempt to go down swinging and take down
- 27:46Speaker 1: some other scumbags, which I'm on board for that 100%.
- 27:51Speaker 2: Because the U.S.
- 27:52Speaker 1: Virgin Islands setting themselves up here like they're the hero
- 27:56Speaker 1: is one of the biggest jokes that honestly I've ever seen.
- 28:00Speaker 1: These people are no heroes. If they were heroes, we
- 28:03Speaker 1: wouldn't have civil suits out the wazoo. We'd have criminal
- 28:08Speaker 1: complaints making their way.
- 28:09Speaker 2: Through the court.
- 28:10Speaker 1: With Rico attached to it. But instead, what we see,
- 28:14Speaker 1: is just another cash grab. Alright folks, that's going to
- 28:18Speaker 1: do it for me. All of the information that goes
- 28:21Speaker 1: with this episode can be found in the description box.
- 28:24Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
- 28:29Speaker 1: In our previous episode on the topic, we heard that
- 28:32Speaker 1: Jess Staley had alleged that Jamie Dimon was well aware
- 28:38Speaker 1: of the relationship between the bank and Jeffrey Epstein and
- 28:42Speaker 1: the fact that he was retained as a client after
- 28:46Speaker 1: his conviction. Well, now, of course, J.P. Morgan has answered
- 28:51Speaker 1: those allegations and they say that it's a bunch of BS.
- 28:56Speaker 1: We talked a little bit about their reply in the
- 29:00Speaker 1: last episode, but now they're giving us a little bit
- 29:03Speaker 1: more here and we're getting a little more context as
- 29:06Speaker 1: far as their denial goes and a little more about
- 29:10Speaker 1: the deposition of Jamie Dimon. So, let's just dive into
- 29:14Speaker 1: this article from CNBC and let's keep the conversation going. Headline,
- 29:21Speaker 1: JP Morgan rejects claim that Dimon and Staley discussed Epstein.
- 29:25Speaker 1: We believe this is false. The authors of this article
- 29:30Speaker 1: are Dan Mangan and Eamon Javers. And this article, again,
- 29:35Speaker 1: was published by CNBC. JPMorgan Chase on Wednesday rejected allegations
- 29:42Speaker 1: cited in a new report that CEO Jamie Dimon, for years,
- 29:46Speaker 1: discussed the bank's then-customer, Jeffrey Epstein, a sex predator, with
- 29:51Speaker 1: Jess Daly, who was at the time a top JPMorgan executive. And,
- 29:56Speaker 1: of course, those were the allegations made by Jess Daly
- 30:00Speaker 1: in the article that we talked about earlier. And you
- 30:03Speaker 1: see how important narrative control is here. Right after those
- 30:07Speaker 1: statements go live out in the Wall Street Journal by
- 30:11Speaker 1: Jess Daly, well, JP Morgan and their comms team, they
- 30:15Speaker 1: have to get out and make a statement to try
- 30:17Speaker 1: and get ahead of the statement that Jess Daly has
- 30:20Speaker 1: already made. And this is the sort of contentious nature
- 30:23Speaker 1: that you should expect throughout the duration of these legal proceedings,
- 30:28Speaker 1: as both sides tried to blame the other side for
- 30:31Speaker 1: being just a little bit scummier than we were. And
- 30:35Speaker 1: that's J.P. Morgan saying, Jeff Staley and his personal relationship
- 30:40Speaker 1: is far worse than the fact that we had this
- 30:42Speaker 1: guy at the bank because, you know, we didn't know.
- 30:45Speaker 1: Which is obviously a bunch of BS. We believe this
- 30:49Speaker 1: is false.
- 30:50Speaker 2: There is no.
- 30:50Speaker 1: Evidence that any such communication ever occurred.
- 30:54Speaker 2: Nothing.
- 30:55Speaker 1: In the number of documents reviewed, and nothing in the
- 30:58Speaker 1: nearly dozen depositions taken, including that of her own CEO,
- 31:03Speaker 1: JP Morgan spokeswoman Patricia Wexler said in a statement to CNBC,
- 31:09Speaker 1: The one person who claims that this is true is
- 31:12Speaker 1: currently accused of horrific acts and dishonesty and hasn't been deposed,
- 31:18Speaker 1: Wexler said, referring to Staley, and this is what we
- 31:21Speaker 1: heard from them earlier today. basically shrugging off the claims
- 31:24Speaker 1: and saying that somebody who is being accused of horrific
- 31:30Speaker 1: sexual crimes is not somebody that they would call credible
- 31:34Speaker 1: and not somebody that they would even give any air
- 31:38Speaker 1: to when it comes to making allegations. Now, I think
- 31:42Speaker 1: that's a bit far considering we know that both sides
- 31:45Speaker 1: here are scummy as hell. I don't think listening to
- 31:49Speaker 1: either side here is a good idea. The best idea
- 31:52Speaker 1: is to follow along with these court filings, these documents,
- 31:56Speaker 1: and see which way is which. Because both sides are
- 32:00Speaker 1: going to try and craft their own narrative. And then
- 32:02Speaker 1: you have the United States Virgin Islands, forget it. They're
- 32:05Speaker 1: also engaged in the game of anybody but us. And
- 32:08Speaker 1: when you add all of those ingredients up, you come
- 32:12Speaker 1: up with a shit sandwich. And that's exactly what these
- 32:15Speaker 1: proceedings are. You have a three-way, a battle royale here.
- 32:20Speaker 1: between the U.S. Virgin Islands, J.P. Morgan, and Jeff Staley
- 32:24Speaker 1: about who the biggest scumbag is. Meanwhile, the real conversation
- 32:28Speaker 1: should be, why was nobody held responsible for all of
- 32:31Speaker 1: these years? And that most certainly includes down in the U.S.
- 32:34Speaker 1: Virgin Islands and the politicians who were elected down there
- 32:38Speaker 1: to stop things like this from happening in the first place.
- 32:42Speaker 1: So until they're held responsible, as I've said numerous times,
- 32:46Speaker 1: I don't see how the U.S. Virgin Islands should be
- 32:49Speaker 1: entitled to one single cent of any of this money.
- 32:53Speaker 1: Wexler's comments came hours after the Wall Street Journal published
- 32:57Speaker 1: an article saying that Staley, in legal documents, said that
- 33:01Speaker 1: for years he communicated with Diamond about JP Morgan's business
- 33:05Speaker 1: with Epstein. So, somebody is lying. Is it Jeff Staley,
- 33:09Speaker 1: or is it Jamie Diamond? Jamie Diamond sat down for
- 33:13Speaker 1: that deposition, and I'm sure he was asked about this.
- 33:16Speaker 1: If it comes back that he was lying, well, he's
- 33:19Speaker 1: going to have to face some perjury problems. Will it
- 33:22Speaker 1: be a big deal for a guy like Jamie Dimon?
- 33:24Speaker 1: I highly doubt it. But that's the penalty if you
- 33:27Speaker 1: lie under oath. And as far as Jeff Staley goes,
- 33:31Speaker 1: I highly doubt that this guy has ever told the
- 33:34Speaker 1: truth when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein or his weird-ass
- 33:37Speaker 1: relationship with the sicko. Then you look at all of
- 33:41Speaker 1: the information about The code words and him going over
- 33:45Speaker 1: to Epstein's to have a nice dunk in the jacuzzi.
- 33:48Speaker 1: And you tell me, what about any of that seems
- 33:51Speaker 1: normal and not odd? So Staley has still not explained
- 33:54Speaker 1: any of this stuff. Oh, it's a bunch of lies.
- 33:57Speaker 1: We weren't that close. This goofball is one step away
- 34:00Speaker 1: from getting some TV time, getting up there during that
- 34:04Speaker 1: TV time and trying the Jedi mind trick on the
- 34:07Speaker 1: whole entire.
- 34:07Speaker 2: World so that we all forget about his.
- 34:10Speaker 1: Involvement with Epstein. For me, that's how ridiculous all of
- 34:14Speaker 1: these denials are. When we can see with our own
- 34:17Speaker 1: eyes what happened inside of those emails, meaning the conversation,
- 34:22Speaker 1: we hear from all of the people that were around
- 34:25Speaker 1: these idiots. And then the slam home slam dunk for
- 34:29Speaker 1: me is the emails between Jeffrey Epstein and Jess Daly.
- 34:34Speaker 1: Those aren't the kind of emails that you're sending to
- 34:36Speaker 1: somebody that you're not close to, especially when you're using
- 34:40Speaker 1: code word. And these two Stunads obviously thought that they
- 34:43Speaker 1: were the wind talkers. Epstein was a client of the
- 34:46Speaker 1: bank from 1998 to 2013, keeping hundreds of millions of
- 34:51Speaker 1: dollars on deposit in multiple accounts. In the documents, Staley
- 34:55Speaker 1: said that Diamond communicated with him when Epstein was arrested
- 35:00Speaker 1: in 2006 and in 2008. When Epstein pleaded guilty to
- 35:05Speaker 1: a sex crime in Florida, the Journal reported. Staley also said,
- 35:10Speaker 1: that Diamond communicated with him various times about whether to
- 35:14Speaker 1: maintain Epstein as a client through 2012. And as I've
- 35:19Speaker 1: stated before, that certainly tracks with me. I highly doubt
- 35:22Speaker 1: that a guy like Jamie Diamond is leaving it up
- 35:26Speaker 1: to his subordinates to make these onboarding decisions or offboarding decisions.
- 35:31Speaker 1: We're talking about hundreds of millions, billions of dollars. And
- 35:35Speaker 1: I don't care how much you're trusted. I don't care
- 35:38Speaker 1: how much you're valued by the company. There's going to
- 35:41Speaker 1: be people above you that are going to want to
- 35:44Speaker 1: check your work.
- 35:45Speaker 2: And they're going to want to.
- 35:46Speaker 1: Make sure that whatever deals you're getting involved in are
- 35:49Speaker 1: beneficial to the bank. So again, it's only two things
- 35:53Speaker 1: when it comes to Jamie Dimon. Either it's negligence or
- 35:56Speaker 1: he's lying. And either way, it's a bad look. And
- 35:59Speaker 1: if I was a shareholder, I would demand that he
- 36:01Speaker 1: steps down. Have you taken a look at their stock
- 36:04Speaker 1: price today? They're getting absolutely hammered. Now, does that mean
- 36:07Speaker 1: anything in the long run? Probably not. We're talking about
- 36:10Speaker 1: JP Morgan here. But at the end of the day,
- 36:14Speaker 1: as a stockholder, I wouldn't be confident in Jamie Dimon
- 36:18Speaker 1: leading the company, leading the bank towards a profitable future,
- 36:22Speaker 1: especially considering he's showing this lack of judgment in the
- 36:27Speaker 1: way he was handling Jeffrey Epstein and a guy with
- 36:29Speaker 1: such disgusting character. So why would anyone have confidence in
- 36:34Speaker 1: this dude moving forward?
- 36:36Speaker 2: I don't understand.
- 36:38Speaker 1: Epstein served more than a year in jail, if you
- 36:40Speaker 1: want to call it that, for soliciting sex from a minor,
- 36:44Speaker 1: a case that was widely reported at the time.
- 36:47Speaker 2: Oh yeah, widely reported.
- 36:49Speaker 1: You mean reported as exactly that, right? The legacy media
- 36:53Speaker 1: ran cover for this dude at the time, and they
- 36:55Speaker 1: reported it like it was just a regular situation where
- 36:59Speaker 1: a dude who is a billionaire solicited a girl for
- 37:03Speaker 1: some sex. And if it was under regular circumstances, some
- 37:07Speaker 1: regular guy out there trying to find a prostitute, then hey, look,
- 37:11Speaker 1: how many dudes have done that?
- 37:13Speaker 2: No big deal.
- 37:14Speaker 1: And that's the way that the media tried to frame this.
- 37:17Speaker 1: And that's why Epstein was so adamant about getting the
- 37:20Speaker 1: charge moved to what it was. Because if he was
- 37:23Speaker 1: charged federally with the crimes that they wanted to hit
- 37:25Speaker 1: him with, well, he couldn't say, look, it was only
- 37:28Speaker 1: for solicitation. It wasn't that big of a deal. I mean,
- 37:31Speaker 1: who hasn't done it? Because now there's a whole slew
- 37:34Speaker 1: of other federal charges that are much, much worse than
- 37:38Speaker 1: what we saw. And that was the whole point of
- 37:41Speaker 1: that plea deal. And that was the whole point of
- 37:43Speaker 1: bringing in that powerful legal team that he surrounded himself
- 37:47Speaker 1: with down in Florida. When thinking about Jeffrey Epstein and
- 37:51Speaker 1: you're thinking about his plots... Remember that as much of
- 37:54Speaker 1: a piece of shit as he was, the guy was
- 37:56Speaker 1: very calculating and he had a lot of the moving
- 38:00Speaker 1: parts that he needed inside of the machine to do
- 38:04Speaker 1: what he wanted to do. And one of the most
- 38:07Speaker 1: crucial parts of that is narrative control. And if you
- 38:10Speaker 1: can control what the media is saying about you for
- 38:13Speaker 1: the most part, then you're going to have some easier
- 38:16Speaker 1: waters to navigate as you try and rehabilitate your image.
- 38:21Speaker 1: The Journal also reported that it had seen documents indicating
- 38:25Speaker 1: that Diamond and Staley had a meeting scheduled with Epstein
- 38:29Speaker 1: on March 2nd, 2010. JP Morgan told the newspaper that
- 38:34Speaker 1: Diamond did not attend that meeting and that it was
- 38:36Speaker 1: not on the CEO's calendar. Well, that's the end of it, folks.
- 38:40Speaker 1: We've been told that Jamie Diamond, Mr. Honesty himself, didn't
- 38:45Speaker 1: go to that meeting. And if you want to refer
- 38:47Speaker 1: to his calendar, you most certainly can. I mean, really,
- 38:50Speaker 1: who believes that? Oh yeah, look, I didn't do it.
- 38:53Speaker 2: Well, what's your proof?
- 38:55Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I didn't do it. And the sad
- 38:57Speaker 1: part is, when you're somebody like Jamie Dimon, more times
- 39:01Speaker 1: than not, that's acceptable. People just take that at face value.
- 39:05Speaker 2: Oh, Mr.
- 39:06Speaker 1: Dimon's so successful, he wouldn't BS me.
- 39:08Speaker 2: Yeah, right.
- 39:09Speaker 1: This dude's out here spinning more tails than Dr. fucking Seuss.
- 39:14Speaker 1: Diamond was deposed on Friday for two civil lawsuits in U.S.
- 39:18Speaker 1: District Court in Manhattan against the bank accusing JPMorgan of
- 39:22Speaker 1: enabling and financially benefiting from sex trafficking by Epstein. One
- 39:29Speaker 1: suit was filed by... the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands,
- 39:32Speaker 1: where Epstein maintained a residence on a private island. The
- 39:36Speaker 1: other complaint was filed by an Epstein accuser who is
- 39:39Speaker 1: seeking to make her complaint a class action suit on
- 39:42Speaker 1: behalf of the other women. And we've talked about that
- 39:46Speaker 1: as well, and Judge Rakoff certainly looks like he is
- 39:49Speaker 1: going to make that move. And if he certifies it
- 39:52Speaker 1: as a class action suit, the waters are going to
- 39:55Speaker 1: get a bit choppier for J.P.
- 39:57Speaker 2: Morgan.
- 39:58Speaker 1: The suit against JP Morgan by an Epstein accuser alleges
- 40:02Speaker 1: that Staley knew without any doubt that Epstein was trafficking
- 40:06Speaker 1: and abusing girls. JP Morgan has claimed in a court
- 40:10Speaker 1: filing that Staley is the person identified without being named
- 40:15Speaker 1: in that suit as using aggressive force and sexually assaulting
- 40:19Speaker 1: an Epstein accuser. Hell of a guy, huh? Hell of
- 40:22Speaker 1: an employee. And remember, this dude was employed by J.P.
- 40:26Speaker 1: Morgan for how long? Nobody else knew that he was
- 40:29Speaker 1: a sicko, huh? Came to work every day, a real
- 40:32Speaker 1: lunch bucket kind of guy. Staley denies any wrongdoing and
- 40:37Speaker 1: having known about Epstein's abuse of young women. Deutsche Bank,
- 40:41Speaker 1: which became Epstein's bank in 2013 after J.P. Morgan severed
- 40:45Speaker 1: ties with them on the heels of Staley's exit from
- 40:49Speaker 1: the bank, earlier this month agreed to settle for $ 75 million,
- 40:53Speaker 1: a lawsuit by another Epstein accuser. That deal will benefit
- 40:57Speaker 1: other women who were victimized by Epstein during the time
- 41:01Speaker 1: he was at Deutsche Bank. JP Morgan, which denies any wrongdoing,
- 41:06Speaker 1: has alleged in legal filings that Staley is responsible for
- 41:10Speaker 1: any civil liability arising from Epstein's use of funds he
- 41:14Speaker 1: had on deposit at the bank to send young women
- 41:17Speaker 1: to the Virgin Islands and elsewhere to be abused by
- 41:21Speaker 1: him and others. Wexler, last week, said after Diamond's deposition,
- 41:26Speaker 1: our CEO reaffirmed after his deposition that, as he has
- 41:30Speaker 1: previously said, he never met with him, never emailed him,
- 41:34Speaker 1: does not recall ever discussing his accounts internally, and was
- 41:38Speaker 1: not involved in any decisions about his account. So what
- 41:42Speaker 1: exactly does Jamie Diamond do all day? Does he go
- 41:45Speaker 1: down to the helps all and sit around and eat sushi?
- 41:48Speaker 1: Is he doing a workout? Some Pilates maybe? Because he
- 41:52Speaker 1: doesn't seem like he has his finger on the pulse
- 41:55Speaker 1: of his company. When one of your biggest accounts, Jeffrey Epstein,
- 41:59Speaker 1: is rolling around in the mud and you act like
- 42:01Speaker 1: you have nothing to do with it, like you have
- 42:04Speaker 1: no idea about any of it. Well, what are we
- 42:07Speaker 1: supposed to think? There are over a million pages of
- 42:10Speaker 1: emails and other documents that have been produced in this case,
- 42:14Speaker 1: and not one comes close to even suggesting that he
- 42:18Speaker 1: had any role in decisions about Epstein's accounts, Wexler said.
- 42:22Speaker 1: As we have said, we now know that Epstein's behavior
- 42:26Speaker 1: was monstrous and his victims deserve justice. In hindsight, any
- 42:31Speaker 1: association with him was a mistake, and we regret it.
- 42:35Speaker 1: But these suits are misdirected as we did not help
- 42:38Speaker 1: him commit his heinous crimes.
- 42:40Speaker 2: No, you facilitated it, though. Same thing.
- 42:42Speaker 1: You enabled it. You are the banker. You are the
- 42:45Speaker 1: people pumping his gross ass money through the heart of
- 42:48Speaker 1: the financial sector for your own benefit. It doesn't get
- 42:52Speaker 1: much clearer than that. Epstein, 66, killed himself in a
- 42:57Speaker 1: Manhattan jail in August 2019, allegedly, a month after federal
- 43:02Speaker 1: authorities arrested and charged him with child sex trafficking. Diamond
- 43:08Speaker 1: has expressed regret that J.P. Morgan did business with Jeffrey Epstein.
- 43:14Speaker 1: I am so sad that we had any relationship to
- 43:17Speaker 1: that man whatsoever, the CEO told Bloomberg in an interview
- 43:22Speaker 1: on May 11th. You know, we had top lawyers evaluating
- 43:26Speaker 1: from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Enforcement, the Department
- 43:30Speaker 1: of Justice, you know, and obviously, had we known then
- 43:34Speaker 1: what we know now, we would have done things differently,
- 43:37Speaker 1: Diamond said. And you know what's so funny about that statement?
- 43:40Speaker 1: Just before he says that, he says he had the
- 43:42Speaker 1: top lawyers, this one, that one, everybody. but the Apostle
- 43:47Speaker 1: Paul looking into who Jeffrey Epstein was or into accounts.
- 43:51Speaker 1: But somehow, someway, this one slipped the dragnet and he
- 43:55Speaker 1: just happened to have connections to all these powerful people.
- 43:58Speaker 2: Just another coincidence, huh?
- 44:00Speaker 1: Like the guards falling asleep, like the cameras not working,
- 44:04Speaker 1: like Nicholas Tartaglione being in a jail cell with Jeffrey Epstein.
- 44:09Speaker 1: It's all coincidence, folks. Nothing to see here, says the
- 44:13Speaker 1: circus master as he enters the tent. All right, folks,
- 44:17Speaker 1: that's going to do it for this one. All of
- 44:19Speaker 1: the information that goes with the episode can be found
- 44:22Speaker 1: in the description box.