Here’s a gift link to a long and important NYT article about Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with his bank, JP Morgan. It doesn’t answer all the questions about Epstein’s money but it shows once again that he was fully enmeshed with some of the most powerful people in the world.
An excerpt:
Epstein’s crimes have been exhaustively documented, and elements of JPMorgan’s relationship with Epstein have become public via legal proceedings in the United States and Britain. But the full story of how America’s leading lender enabled the century’s most notorious sexual predator has not been told. This account has been pieced together from thousands of pages of internal bank records, sealed deposition transcripts and other court documents and financial data, as well as interviews with people with direct knowledge of the Epstein relationship. Among the findings: Bank officials for more than a decade were anxious about Epstein’s prolific wire transfers and cash withdrawals — JPMorgan ultimately processed more than $1 billion in such transactions for him — and warned senior management about his suspicious activities. But on at least four occasions over five years, the bank’s leaders overrode those objections and continued to serve Epstein.
They knew he was up to something nefarious. And if you read further you will see they knew about his proclivity for very young women and girls and many suspected there was criminality involved. But he had protectors and others who looked away. They wanted his business and some of them knew him intimately as friends.
Read it. You don’t have to be QAnon to be disturbed by this group of wealthy men and the women who serve them.