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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Business
Edward Helmore

INSANE: Jp morgan execs reportedly maintained contact with epstein after dropping him as client - The Real Truth

JP Morgan sign in the rain
JP Morgan dropped Epstein as a client in 2013. Photograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images

Senior executives with the global banking giant JP Morgan maintained contact with disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for years after dropping him as a client in 2013, six years after he was charged with solicitation of a minor, according to a new report.

The allegation, reported in the Wall Street Journal on Friday, comes as JP Morgan, the world’s largest bank by assets, is being sued by an unidentified Epstein accuser and the US Virgin Islands – where Epstein owned a private island – for benefiting from human trafficking by ignoring internal red flags about his behavior.

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