Horrifically, many people and businesses continued associating with and doing business with pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein even after the nature of his crimes was widely known, assisting him in maintaining a veneer of public acceptability or in conducting his stomach-churning activities.
Chief among those, according to a recent lawsuit, was America’s largest bank: JP Morgan, which the US Virgin Islands is attempting to hold accountable by dragging it to federal court in New York and demanding a jury trial. Fox Business News Digital, reporting on that, reports that:
U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Denise George filed the suit on behalf of the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands, demanding a trial by jury.
In the suit, George alleges that JPMorgan Chase violated the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, The Virgin Islands Criminally Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, and the Virgin Islands Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act.
In the complaint, the Attorney General for the US Virgin Islands alleges that JP Morgan was instrumental in the Epstein operation, saying:
“The Attorney General brings this action, after presenting her findings in September 2022, in her ongoing effort to protect public safety and to hold accountable those who facilitated or participated in, directly or indirectly, the trafficking enterprise Epstein helmed. The investigation revealed that JP Morgan knowingly, negligently, and unlawfully provided and pulled the levers through which recruiters and victims were paid and was indispensable to the operation and concealment of the Epstein trafficking enterprise.”
Continuing, George alleges in the complaint that financial institutions like JP Morgan can choke human trafficking networks if they step up and do so, but that JP Morgan instead “knowingly” helped Epstein with his trafficking network by facilitating and concealing his activities and network.
Further, George alleges that JP Morgan facilitated very suspicious payments, particularly wire and cash transactions, and that those were for Epstein’s “criminal enterprise whose currency was the sexual servitude of dozens of women and girls in and beyond the Virgin Islands.”
Making those shocking claims, George said, also in the complaint “The investigation revealed that JP Morgan knowingly, negligently, and unlawfully provided and pulled the levers through which recruiters and victims were paid and was indispensable to the operation and concealment of the Epstein trafficking enterprise. Financial institutions can connect—or choke—human trafficking networks, and enforcement actions filed and injunctive relief obtained by attorneys general are essential to ensure that enterprises like Epstein’s cannot flourish in the future.”
The complaint also claims that “As described below, based on documents reviewed and interviews conducted by the Government, JP Morgan knowingly facilitated, sustained, and concealed the human trafficking network operated by Jeffrey Epstein from his home and base in the Virgin Islands, and financially benefitted from this participation, directly or indirectly, by failing to comply with federal banking regulations. JP Morgan facilitated and concealed wire and cash transactions that raised suspicion of—and were in fact part of—a criminal enterprise whose currency was the sexual servitude of dozens of women and girls in and beyond the Virgin Islands. Human trafficking was the principal business of the accounts Epstein maintained at JP Morgan.”
JP Morgan is also being sued by an Epstein victim for its alleged role in facilitating her abuse. That lawsuit accuses JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank of “assisting, supporting, facilitating, and otherwise providing the most critical service for the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking organization to successfully rape, sexually assault, and coercively sex traffic.”
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