Attorneys for Jeffrey Epstein’s victims asked a federal judge on Friday for permission to obtain new testimony from Jeffrey Epstein. JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is part of a lawsuit against the bank over its dealings with sex offender Epstein.
The attorneys who dismissed Dimon from the case last month argued: Manhattan District Court It alleges that JP Morgan “strategically” failed to promptly turn documents over to JP Morgan as part of its litigation as required by Judge Jed Lakoff.
Attorney Sigrid McCauley’s filing said that, therefore, when Dimon and other key witnesses were dismissed, plaintiffs’ attorneys were unable to question those documents.
According to the filing, after Dimon’s deposition, JP Morgan “produced 1,500 documents, some of which were from archived files of witnesses whose deposition had long since passed. ”.
The accuser, who is filing the lawsuit under the pseudonym Jane Doe, alleges in the lawsuit that JP Morgan facilitated the sex trafficking of Epstein and other young women over the years when Epstein was a bank customer. He claims to have made financial gains.
JPMorgan Chase Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon (right) at the US Capitol after meeting with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in Washington, DC, USA, Wednesday, May 17, 2023.
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The U.S. Virgin Islands government makes similar allegations in a separate lawsuit pending in the same court.
JPMorgan has denied any wrongdoing, but said it regretted having Epstein as a client.
In addition to Dimon, the plaintiff’s lawyers want to reopen the deposition of Mary Erdoes, CEO of JPMorgan’s wealth and asset management division. Mary Casey was Epstein’s banker at JP Morgan for nearly a decade. And a fourth is identified only in the filing as a “representative” of JPMorgan.
All four will be questioned about the documents submitted only after the initial deposition, according to the filing.
One such document, handed over after Dimon’s deposition took place on May 26, “appears to refer to a 2019 internal review.” [redacted] Electronic correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein following Epstein’s arrest and death in 2019, according to filings.
One of the late-produced documents was a chronology that referenced an email from then-banking executive Jess Staley questioning Epstein.
“These documents demonstrate JPMC’s ability to fully grasp the full extent of Epstein’s personal relationship with Staley, despite the myriad red flags and public reports of Epstein’s conduct over the years. Instead, we waited until 2019 for that,” the filing said. .
“Plaintiff would have confronted JPMC CEO Dimon.
If it had been timely produced, this document would have been attached during his deposition,” the filing reads.
McAuley noted that Lakoff had warned JPMorgan in May that filings with the plaintiffs’ legal team had proceeded at an “inexplicably slow pace.”
“Despite the court’s clear warnings, JPMC was unable, for strategic reasons, to produce documents expeditiously from the archived files of key witnesses, some of whom had already been dismissed,” the attorney wrote. rice field.
“For example, during the weekend before the conclusion of the fact-finding and immediately following the May 26 deposition of chief executive Jamie Dimon, JPMC produced 1,500 documents, some of which were not deposited. It was from a witness archive file that had been around a long time ago,” McCauley said. I have written.
“This pattern of producing documents from witness files after depositions continued throughout the discovery period.”
JP Morgan spokesman Joseph Evangelisti said in an email to CNBC, “Plaintiffs love the headline, but Jamie never met the man, never worked with him, and didn’t follow up.” The fact that I’m thinking and wishing will not change no matter how much is left on the record.” The man was not a customer of the company. “
—CNBC Eamon Javers contributed to this report.
