Thursday, September 11, 2025

How J.P. Morgan Enabled Jeffrey Epstein

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with New York Times' Matt Goldstein, who reported on the money from Jeffrey Epstein to J.P. Morgan Chase " concluding that the bank enabled his crimes.

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The country's most powerful bank became a critical cog in Epstein's massive sex trafficking operation. JPM processed more than $1 billion in transactions for the sex offender. Here's our investigation. @davidenrich.bsky.social @mattgoldstein26.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m ...

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-- Jessica Silver-Greenberg (@jsgatnyt.bsky.social) Sep 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM

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"GOLDSTEIN: You know, they're valuable in the sense - obviously, he had a lot of money there. At the peak, he had about $300 million in his accounts. But you have to view him more than just the dollars.

There were lots of transactions he was doing, obviously, to run his sex trafficking operation for so many years. And he was also valuable in helping to bring business to the bank because his stock and trade was connecting people.

You know, it's always unclear exactly how much he did in terms of bringing new business into the bank, but clearly he was very important in making introductions to some people at the bank."

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"SHAPIRO: In 2019, after Epstein was arrested in New Jersey and charged with federal sex trafficking offenses, J.P. Morgan filed a report retroactively flagging some 4,700 Epstein...

GOLDSTEIN: Right.

SHAPIRO: ...Transactions as suspicious, totaling more than a billion dollars. What was going on there? And how should those transactions have been handled in real time?"

much more at the thread link

Apparently Epstein had lots of enablers besides his Wingman Donnie Doll Hands.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-09 11:17 PM

#1: Hi Corky: So, JP Morgan enabled sex fiend Jeffrey Epstein and Deutsche Bank enabled Dummkopf Trumpf: ag.ny.gov

Hmph.

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#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-09 11:52 PM

Government Of Pedophiles.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-09 11:59 PM

I don't know if they give each other a secret grip, a wink, maybe a nod, but the NYT story on JP Morgan is filthy with complicity.
Follow the money.

#4 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-09-10 05:59 AM

#4: 'Morning, Doc: This might be their shibboleth: blogger.googleusercontent.com

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-10 06:20 AM

Good thing the banks don't run themselves! /s *hint: they do. the fed is fake.

#6 | Posted by Brennnn at 2025-09-12 12:44 AM

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