Less ‘sexy’ but more vital was and is money laundering.
JP Morgan Chase has flagged $1 billion in “suspicious” transactions involving Jeffrey Epstein and prominent Wall Street figures, and notified the Trump admin back in 2019.
Face it, Acosta and Bondi gave Epstein a sweetheart deal to silence him, and then Trump rewarded them with cabinet positions. It's obvious why Republicans have closed the House to protect pedophiles who raped children with Epstein.
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Weeks after Jeffrey Epstein died in federal custody in 2019 awaiting prosecution on sex-trafficking charges, JPMorgan Chase filed a report alerting the U.S. government over $1 billion of potentially suspicious transactions involving him and prominent Wall Street and business figures.
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The report was included in a release of previously sealed court records that were made public on Thursday after requests from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. The documents included other SARs that JPMorgan filed in the years before Epstein’s 2019 arrest about large cash withdrawals, the New York Times reported.
The 2019 report did not detail the nature of the transactions or why they were suspicious. But it identified transactions with Leon Black, the co-founder of the private equity firm Apollo Global Management who left the company in 2021; the hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin; the lawyer Alan Dershowitz; and trusts controlled by the retail tycoon Leslie Wexner.
The report identified $65m of wire transfers from the mid-2000s that appeared to move between multiple banks linked to Wexner’s trusts but it did not provide details about the transactions involving Black, Dubin or Dershowitz.
None of the individuals named in the report have been charged with crimes in relation to Epstein.
JP Morgan’s 15-year relationship with Epstein, a convicted sex offender, has become a source of major legal and political scrutiny.
The unsealed documents were part of a 2023 litigation filed by the US Virgin Islands, where Epstein owned a private island and conducted most of his financial affairs, and on behalf of his victims. JP Morgan settled the cases without admitting liability.
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