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Jes Staley used his daughter as a 'vehicle of communication' to maintain contact with Jeffrey Epstein after taking the top job at Barclays, a court has heard. The 68-year-old claims he had a 'professional' relationship with the disgraced financier, and he cut all ties with him before he became the bank's chief executive in December 2015. But the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) told London's Upper Tribunal today that the former boss had 'ongoing, indirect contact' with the convicted sex offender up until 2017. It also claimed a bombshell cache of emails showed that he told the serial paedophile via his...

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...

A former boss of Barclays, who was ousted from the bank over his links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, will seek to clear his name in court this week. Jes Staley was forced out in November 2021 after UK regulators ruled he had failed to accurately disclose the nature and length of his relationship with Epstein to the Barclays board. The episode cost Mr Staley, a man with a glittering and rewarding career in investment banking, £18m in pay and bonuses and, more importantly, his reputation. -snip- A cache of emails released by his former employer JP Morgan suggested...

The controversial ex-CEO of Barclays will pay a major fine after texts and emails showed the extent of his relationship with the financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Jes Staley, who ran the major U.K. bank between 2015 and 2021, was hit with a £1.8 million ($2.2 million) fine by the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and banned from holding senior positions in the financial services industry. The FCA released a 79-page dossier outlining its extensive three-year investigation into the U.S. banker’s ties with Epstein. Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to charges including soliciting sex from girls as young as...

NEW YORK, June 9 (Reuters) - Jes Staley, the onetime asset management chief at JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N), is set to be questioned under oath over the weekend about his ties to the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a person familiar with the matter. The deposition, which is not public, is part of evidence-gathering for two civil lawsuits against the largest U.S. bank. One is by a proposed class of women who say they were abused by Epstein, and the other is by the U.S. Virgin Islands, where Epstein allegedly abused women on a private island he...

According to federal court documents filed by the U.S. Virgin Islands and shared by Inner City Press, Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has discovered a cache of photos and videos. The images could be used in an ongoing lawsuit against JP Morgan Chase and Deutsche Bank for allegedly enabling Jeffrey Epstein by providing him with the funds to support his illegal lifestyle. New York Federal Judge Jed S. Rakoff wrote in a recent ruling regarding the photos and videos, “If during the course of that review, the Estate sees a particular recording that appears to contain possible CSAM [Child Sexual Abuse Material],...

As if the banking industry doesn’t have enough problems, there’s also Jes Staley. The former chief executive of Barclays, and before that a JPMorgan bigwig, reminds us that the legacy of the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is still with us, thanks to Epstein’s extensive connections with the powerful and irresistible suspicions about the many who attended his parties, flew on his private jet or visited his private Caribbean island. Mr. Staley, who once ran JPMorgan’s private bank, has now seen his ex-employer turn on him after he was named in a lawsuit as an eyewitness to an Epstein victim’s abuse....

JPMorgan's lawsuit, filed Wednesday, comes after the bank was sued by the U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as by a woman identified as Jane Doe, who was allegedly abused by Epstein. Those lawsuits claim JPMorgan should have seen evidence of Epstein's sex trafficking and knowingly benefited from it.

I guess there is nothing to see here, an Executive at JP Morgan and Jeffrey Epstein's personal banker exchanged emails with Epstein where he said, "That was fun, Say Hi to Snow White", to which Epstein replied, "What character would you like next". In addition, Epstein sent pictures of young women in suggestive poses to this Executive using a JP Morgan email account. Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison for trafficking underage women, yet no one has been arrested for abusing these women...The Virgin Islands is suing JP Morgan over their dealings with Epstein and this just one exchange of emails,...