JPMorgan’s Internal Epstein Concerns Detailed in USVI Suit (2)

JPMorgan Chase & Co. compliance staff urged the bank to cut ties with Jeffrey Epstein not just over sex-trafficking allegations but also over money-laundering suspicions, according to a new court filing.

In an amended complaint filed Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan, the US Virgin Islands revealed new details of how JPMorgan handled allegations about Epstein up until 2013, the year the bank broke off its relationship with him.

A protester holds up a sign of Jeffrey Epstein in front of the federal courthouse in New York on July 8, 2019.

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The bank’s asset and wealth management chief executive Mary Erdoes admitted in a recent deposition that the bank was aware by “2006 that Epstein was accused of paying cash to ...