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AZJonnie

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2. A group of victims were awarded $290,000,000 from JPMC in an almost identical case just a couple of years ago
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 05:20 PM
Oct 27

It exposed the bank, in particular their employee Jes Staley (who knew Epstein way too well to have not had knowledge of what he was really up to) as clearly more concerned with maintaining Epstein as a client then they were with following applicable anti-money-laundering and trafficking bank reporting laws. Apparently there was evidence that high level executives were aware that Epstein was using his regular, large cash withdrawals to pay young women cash for sex (and perhaps even that they were minors), to the point that it may have been a 'running gag around the office' circa 2006

It did not, however, bring to light evidence of any powerful, organized cabal of rich ephebophiles that were regularly availing themselves of Epstein's victims. I would wager this latest suit will have a similar (somewhat banal) outcome, assuming these banks committed the same sorts of violations of bank reporting laws and/or had their own versions of Jes Staley.

If there ever was such a group, they must be Bourne/Bond-level super villains

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