Posted on 03/08/2025 7:17:28 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Jes Staley’s condition may have led to ‘a mistake’ in describing ties to paedophile, the bank’s chairman told the FCA.
Jes Staley did not give a clear account of his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein because of his dyslexia, according to Barclays’ chairman.
In evidence to the High Court on Friday, it was revealed that Nigel Higgins claimed to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) that Mr Staley “doesn’t read a lot” and “may have made a mistake” during an investigation into his relationship with the paedophile financier.
Mr Higgins defended his former colleague by claiming he had “no motive” to mislead the FCA, which previously handed Mr Staley a lifetime ban from the City over his failure to disclose the full nature of his ties to Epstein.
Mr Staley is trying to overturn the ban in the High Court.
Robert Smith KC, Mr Staley’s barrister, told the court that Mr Higgins previously asked regulators whether they had taken into account Mr Staley’s underlying conditions during its investigation into whether they were misled.
During the meeting between Mr Higgins and Sam Woods, the head of the Prudential Regulation Authority, Mr Higgins said: “[Mr Staley] is dyslexic, he doesn’t read a lot of things, he may have made a mistake. What is his motive to mislead?”
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
A bank CEO. Doesn’t read much.
Besides this article being a hot mess of various personalities shoved in front of the reader and the absence of a clear storyline, I get the impression that these suit-wearing rats and probable paedophiles are scrambling to cover each others’ arses.
Throw the whole lot of them in prison.
He has dyslexia, he doesn’t read much, and his dog ate his homework.
It appears the Telegraph is misusing or misunderstands the term paedophile. As I recall, all of the young women involved were post-pubescent.
Paedophilia refers to a sexual attraction to pre-pubesscent people.
That is how a person who had to investigate child pornography cases explained it to me.
Dyslexics Untie!
Oh brother, now I’ve heard it all.
“Yeah, I heard we were in financial trouble, but I couldn’t read the numbers.”
This is like people who name ADHD for everything.
Exactly. Dyslexic multinational bank CEO.
Jes Staley and Jeffrey Epstein walk into a bra...
Funny, he doesn’t seem to have a problem doing his job with his dyslexia, very selective that dyslexia of his.
I have dyslexia. It does not affect my judgement of right from wrong. I majored in Chemistry and have an MBA in Finance. Dyslexia did not affect any judgement. I learned how to handle it.
If life gives you melons, you may be dyslexic.
My wife sent me to Cox’s to get a seersucker suit but I got mixed up and went to Sears.
Jeffrey Epstein used lobbyist to push for Jes Staley to be Barclays CEO, court told
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/04/jeffrey-epstein-jes-staley-barclays-ceo-project-jes
Denali ain’t just a mountain in Alaska!
Only 15...? I could have sworn her ID said 51!
are you sure it wasn’t 1951?
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