Dem U.S. Virgin Islands Gov. Fires AG Days After She Sued JPMorgan For ‘Turning a Blind Eye’ to Jeffrey Epstein’s Sex-Trafficking Activities on His Private Island

The Democrat U.S. Virgin Islands Governor, Albert Bryan, has fired Attorney General Denise George days after she sued JPMorgan Chase & Co for “turning a blind eye” to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking activities on his private island.

According to a person with knowledge of the matter, George had made the decision to go over the bank without first informing Bryan of such a major action.

Bryan had been frustrated with George for some time, according to people familiar with the situation, and her action against the bank was the final straw.

According to the Guardian, a source said that Epstein’s relationship with the bank ended “long before his ongoing misconduct became known.”

As we previously reported, George filed the suit on Tuesday as part of an “ongoing effort” to hold accountable those who facilitated Epstein’s activities.

The suit was filed in Manhattan federal court, over 1600 miles away from where Epstein brought many of his victims – to his villa on Little St James, the private island he owned.

The complaint states that “Human trafficking was the principal business of the accounts Epstein maintained at JPMorgan.”

The suit seeks unspecified damages for violating sex trafficking, bank secrecy, and consumer laws, as according to the suit, JPMorgan concealed “wire and cash transactions that raised suspicion of a criminal enterprise whose currency was the sexual servitude” of women and girls in the Virgin Islands.

JPMorgan’s willingness to do business with Epstein unfairly enriched it at the expense of other banks, George alleged in the suit.

A USVI probe found that JPMorgan “pulled the levers through which recruiters and victims were paid” and was indispensable to the operation of Epstein’s trafficking enterprise, according to the suit.

JPMorgan Sued by the U.S. Virgin Islands For ‘Turning a Blind Eye’ to Jeffrey Epstein’s Sex-Trafficking Activities on his Private Island