JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon won’t face a second round of hearings into the bank’s ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after a judge on Friday blocked an try and reopen the testimony.
The U.S. Virgin Islands is searching for damages from JPMorgan for allegedly aiding Epstein’s human trafficking ring by keeping him as a client and no red flags for his misconduct on Little St. James, a personal island he owned that was Epstein’s reported headquarters for abuse.
In its latest effort to seek out the perpetrator of the Wall Street investment giant, the Virgin Islands asked a federal court for permission to query Dimon, one other current bank worker and one former worker, in line with Bloomberg.
Nevertheless, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff rejected the request on Friday, the outlet said.
Dimon testified under oath about his ties to Epstein in a two-day deposition centered around two lawsuits against the bank – one by the Virgin Islands and the opposite by one in all Epstein’s victims.
Earlier this week, the bank agreed to pay $290 million to settle the case brought by the victim.
During Dimon’s May 26-27 testimony, the bank boss reportedly maintained that he had never handled Epstein and didn’t even know the sex offender was a client of JPMorgan until his arrest in 2019.
![On Friday, a judge denied a U.S. Virgin Islands request to question JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon for a second time under oath. Dimon underwent a two-day hearing on May 26-27 and reportedly maintained his innocence.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/NYPICHPDPICT000012788804.jpg?w=1024)
Nevertheless, his predecessor, former JPMorgan CEO Jes Staley, denied the claim and was reportedly overthrown again over the weekend.
Earlier in March, Judge Rakoff ordered JPMorgan at hand over documents related to Dimon between 2015 and 2019 – a period after the bank ditched Epstein as a client.
Virgin Islands lawyers told Bloomberg that the bank provided a summary of emails between Staley and Epstein that were compiled right into a single document after Epstein died by suicide behind bars in 2019 while awaiting trial.
Staley, who was removed as CEO of Barclays in November 2021, reportedly exchanged around 1,200 emails with Epstein while at JPMorgan.
Nevertheless, this document was presented on May 28 – the day after the primary round of testimony, prompting the U.S. territory to request one other round of questioning.
Despite the denial, lawyers from the Virgin Islands told Bloomberg they believed they’d enough evidence to date to prove that the bank had “turned a blind eye to evidence of human trafficking” on Epstein’s estate, as stated in a December 2022 grievance.
Dimon, nonetheless, maintains his innocence, including during his testimony when he pointed the finger at former JPMorgan boss Staley – who left the large bank in 2013 after 30 years on the job.
In accordance with the documents reviewed by The Wall Street JournalStaley admitted that he and Dimon actually communicated about Epstein each in 2006, when Epstein was first arrested, and again in 2008, when he pleaded guilty to soliciting and soliciting minors for prostitution.
Virgin Islands attorneys, nonetheless, don’t imagine that Dimon is totally freed from the hook, but say they imagine he’s “a possible source of relevant and unique information” about why the bank continued to service Epstein.
![JPMorgan broke off ties with Epstein only in 2013 - more than a decade after he first opened accounts with a well-known bank. In 2005, when he was prosecuted for molesting a 14-year-old girl, and in 2006 for soliciting prostitution, Epstein remained a client of JPMorgan.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/NYPICHPDPICT000012590794.jpg?w=1024)
In addition they claim that Dimon can have information on alleged endorsements by Epstein’s wealthy clients and is issuing subpoenas to Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, in addition to Elon Musk and Hyatt hotel heir Thomas Pritzker to learn more.
Court documents, originally filed in 2009, alleged that JPMorgan “knowingly” ignored red flags about Epstein until 2013 since it profited from his human trafficking enterprise by bringing other wealthy clients to the bank.
JPMorgan cut ties with Epstein in 2013 for being a “high-risk client” over his federal sex trafficking charges.
![US Virgin Islands trusts JPMorgan](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/NYPICHPDPICT000010582783.jpg?w=1024)
Nevertheless, the bank detained him after he was investigated for molesting a 14-year-old girl in 2005, and he was first arrested in 2006 for soliciting prostitution.
Internal bank records later revealed that the convicted pedophile “routinely” made money withdrawals from his JPMorgan accounts of between $40,000 and $80,000, totaling greater than $750,000 a 12 months.