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

JPMorgan Chase & Co has been sued by the U.S. Virgin Islands for “turning a blind eye” to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking activities on his private island.

USVI Attorney General Denise 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.”

Human trafficking survivor advocate Eliza Bleu celebrated the news and declared in a tweet, “I’m here for it.”

I’m here for it.

— Eliza (@elizableu) December 29, 2022

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.

Epstein never was brought to justice as he was found dead in a Metropolitan Correctional Center jail cell in 2019 after being arrested and charged with sex trafficking by Manhattan federal prosecutors.