NEW YORK, June 15 (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N) urged a federal decide to reject the U.S. Virgin Islands’ demand that Chief Government Jamie Dimon sit for a second deposition for its lawsuit in regards to the financial institution’s lengthy relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
In a letter made public on Thursday, the biggest U.S. financial institution stated Dimon made “crystal clear” in his Could 26 deposition that he knew nothing about Epstein’s sexual abuse of younger girls and teenage ladies when the disgraced financier was a shopper.
JPMorgan additionally stated messages between Epstein and former financial institution govt Jes Staley, the place Epstein name-dropped individuals like billionaires Invoice Gates and Leon Black and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, didn’t justify extra questioning of Dimon about alleged “Epstein referrals” of potential prospects.
A spokesman for the U.S. Virgin Islands had no touch upon the letter to U.S. District Choose Jed Rakoff in Manhattan.
The U.S. Virgin Islands, the place Epstein owned two neighboring islands, is suing JPMorgan for allegedly enabling Epstein to arrange a intercourse trafficking operation there.
JPMorgan has fought again, saying the territory was complicit in Epstein’s crimes.
Late on Wednesday, the financial institution launched emails between Epstein and a former first woman of the U.S. Virgin Islands, to help its earlier declare that the territory appeared the opposite method in change for money and perks.
Epstein was a JPMorgan shopper from 1998 to 2013. He died of an obvious suicide in a Manhattan jail cell in August 2019, one month after his arrest on intercourse trafficking prices.
On Monday, JPMorgan agreed in precept to pay $290 million to settle a class-action lawsuit by dozens of ladies who stated Epstein sexually abused them, and accused the financial institution of ignoring his actions.
JPMorgan is individually suing Staley for concealing what he knew about Epstein, and desires him chargeable for damages it’d face in each lawsuits.
Staley was deposed on Saturday. He has in courtroom papers denied wrongdoing or figuring out about his former good friend’s crimes.
A trial is scheduled for Oct. 23.
The case is U.S. Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase Financial institution NA, U.S. District Court docket, Southern District of New York, No. 22-10904.
Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York, modifying by Deepa Babington
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