Jes Staley, the former Barclays and JP Morgan executive, has been accused of being an operative in late pedophile Jeffrey Esptein’s sex trafficking ring.
Thousands of emails between the two revealed a ‘profound friendship,’ according to lawsuit.
The fresh claims are included in the US Virgin Island’s lawsuit which accuse JP Morgan of “turning a blind eye” to Epstein’s sex crimes.
The Mail Online reports: The filing was made in an an amended complaint Tuesday by the US Virgin Islands, which had previously sued JPMorgan over the bank’s ties to Epstein. Staley worked at JPMorgan until 2013.
‘Between 2008 and 2012, Staley exchanged approximately 1,200 emails with Epstein from his JP Morgan email account,’ the amendment alleges. During that time, the bank ‘serviced approximately 55 Epstein-related accounts collectively worth hundreds of millions of dollars.’
Staley, 66, had quit Barclays in November 2021 after the bank’s board said it was ‘disappointed’ with the outcome of a report into his links to convicted sex offender Epstein.
These communications show a close personal relationship and ‘profound’ friendship between the two men and even suggest that Staley may have been involved in Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation,’ the amendment continues. ‘