Jamie Dimon, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., at a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing in Washington, DC, USA, Thursday, September 22, 2022.
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JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is set to be fired for two days in late May in a civil lawsuit accusing a giant bank of sex trafficking by the late Jeffrey Epstein, sources told CNBC’s Eamon on Wednesday. Told Javers.
Dimon’s questioning under oath will take place on Friday and Saturday, May 26 and 27, in New York, sources said.
“The schedule is fluid and subject to change,” said a person with knowledge of Dimon’s deposition.
One of the U.S. Virgin Islands government and Epstein whistleblowers is suing JP Morgan in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. The bank denies wrongdoing.
Epstein has been a client of JP Morgan for years. It wasn’t until 2013 that Banks cut ties with him, five years after he pleaded guilty to coercing sex from an underage girl in a Florida state court.
“Jamie Dimon said in 2008 that his billionaire client sex traffickers,A Virgin Islands attorney said at a court hearing in March.
Banks said Dimon had no knowledge of Epstein in connection with the lawsuit.
In addition to attorneys for the Virgin Islands and Epstein whistleblowers, attorneys for former JPMorgan investment banker Jes Staley will question Dimon.
JP Morgan argues that Staley, not the bank, is legally responsible for civil liability related to its dealings with Epstein.
On Wednesday, lawyers in the lawsuit were due to fire William Langford, the top JP Morgan executive responsible for anti-money laundering efforts, financial crimes compliance and regulatory controls.
The Virgin Islands lawsuit allegedly raised JP Morgan “allegations of a criminal enterprise using currency for the sexual enslavement of dozens of women and girls in and outside the Virgin Islands,” Telegraph said. and facilitated and concealed cash transactions.”
“Human trafficking is [principal] The business of the accounts Epstein maintained with JP Morgan,” the lawsuit states.
Epstein committed suicide in a Manhattan prison cell in 2019, a month after being arrested on federal child sex trafficking charges.
He was previously friends with two former presidents, Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew of the United Kingdom, and many other rich and powerful people.
Correction: A previous headline cited multiple sources for Jamie Dimon’s expected deposition timing when there was only one source. CNBC has since confirmed the timing with multiple sources.
