Posted on 03/24/2023 5:39:09 AM PDT by Libloather
Banks used by Jeffrey Epstein can be sued for sex trafficking, says court. A federal court says that sex-trafficking lawsuits against JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank can go forward. In three separate but similar suits, the two banks are being accused of knowingly benefiting from sex trafficking by allowing Jeffrey Epstein—who killed himself in prison while awaiting a federal trial on charges of sex trafficking minors—to bank with them.
The plaintiffs—which include Epstein accusers and the government of the Virgin Islands, where Epstein had a private island—say the banks should have dropped or rejected Epstein when he was accused of or plead guilty to sex crimes. Epstein was a client of JPMorgan from 1998 through 2013 and became a client of Deutsche Bank in 2013. In 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida to soliciting a minor for prostitution. He was later accused of sex crimes involving 40 girls, but died before the resolution of that case.
The implications in these suits are chilling, no matter how unsympathetic Epstein may personally have been. They suggest that mere allegations against someone should warrant financial institutions canceling their accounts—something that seems not only unfair on its face but also likely to hamper a person's ability to defend themselves in court. A society where private businesses must reject anyone accused of crimes or face criminal liability themselves is perverse, frightening, and antithetical to civil liberties. Even the expectation that someone who had pleaded guilty to any crime should be excluded from banks doesn't seem desirable.
Banks are, of course, private institutions and allowed to reject business from whomever they choose. They have no duty to presume innocence until proven guilty. But if federal court rulings play a role in encouraging such antics, it's difficult to say how freely or coerced these private decisions really...
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Of course "deep pockets" are always targets of slimy lawyers.
Our “justice system” is set up by lawyers, run by lawyers, and primarily benefits lawyers. Also, any unethical or illegal behavior is also overseen by lawyers. Quite the sweet deal if you’re an attorney with low standards.
So,
You can go after the madam recruiting the girls.
You can go after some of the financial institutions.
***But you CANNOT go after the actual folks paying to put their penis inside a girl, at times under age girls at that. There are the flight crews, flight manifests, girls (victims) available... and no one is even asking! Not even the MSM!
Must be nice to be “to big to fail” and in America.
America has class justice and a highly politicized justice system. That has been apparent for a long time.
It’s now just becoming more brazen, where those playing these games do not even hide it all that well, as with January 6 and the use of the DOJ/FBI to go after political opponents, Hunters laptop, the difference in how the DOJ handled the Biden vs. Trump classified documents issue.
Justice is no longer blind and it hasn’t been for a while.
The point of the ruling is to promote lawyerly redistribution of Bank wealth to lawyers
The United States of America are a tyranny of lawers
“In 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida to soliciting a minor for prostitution.”
JP kept doing business with him for years after he became a known sex offender and Deutsche started 5 years after this public record was created.
Since 2003, any place that handles cash has to perform something called “Customer Due Diligence”. Its to make sure you don’t become Osama’s banker. His soliciting for prostitution GUILTY PLEA should have knocked him out of the box for any decent bank or credit union.
Epstein - a terrible sex trafficker, who seemed to have no specific clients.
yep
still no word on any actual johns
anyone who has been convicted of a felony is not allowed to have a bank account?
Tale as old as time.
The number of prostitutes prosecuted and punished is orders of magnitude greater than the number of pimps and customers who ever been bothered in the slightest by the authorities. (But I repeat myself). There is a serious debate as to whether prostitution or politics (yet again, I repeat myself) is the world’s oldest profession.
There is NO debate as to which has the higher standards, morals, and ethics. Hint: It isn’t the ones who need to get votes.
On the other hand, the compensation and benefits package as well as working conditions are far superior for the politicians.
Just like Grislane whatshername, Epstein’s bitch.
Guilty of every thing but no one else had anything to do with her even tho she was the one stealing the kids from Disney to go to Epstein’s Island for the pleasures of our political betters.
That is not what the law says.
But some one pleading guilty to a crime in which the SOURCES or USES of money that might be flowing in and out of your bank are part and parcel of the crime (buying underage prostitutes) should invoke any prudent bank to tell you to take your dirty money elsewhere.
What the law says is that aiding and abetting “money laundering” (which can include buying a dime rock of crack with an ATM withdrawal) is a federal crime punishable by 5 years. JP and DB rolled the dice that his accounts would not be used for additional criminal activity. The plaintiffs are betting that they were. Jusdge seems to think they could have been. Some people just roll 7’s every time they pick up the dice...
How was the bank to know that Epstein was in the trafficking trade?
How did the government of the Virgin Islands state their interest in the case in terms of damage received by the government by the actions of the banks in maintaining financial relations with Epstein.
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