November 28, 2025 • 18 mins
In recent months, a growing chorus of legislators has publicly demanded that major banks — including JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, Bank of America, and Bank of New York Mellon — be held accountable for allegedly facilitating Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation through negligent or deliberately under-reported financial activity. A high-profile memorandum released by Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, lays out evidence that JPMorgan severely under-reported “suspicious activity” on Epstein’s accounts for years — then suddenly flagged over a billion dollars in transfers only after his 2019 arrest and death. Many lawmakers argue this discrepancy goes beyond careless bookkeeping and points to systemic compliance failures or even criminal complicity, especially given that senior banking executives remained personally involved in Epstein’s account oversight.
Against this backdrop, Congressional oversight committees have issued subpoenas to banks for financial records tied to Epstein. James Comer, chair of the House Oversight Committee, has demanded full transparency and urged federal prosecutors to open criminal investigations, not only into bank institutions but into individuals who may have knowingly enabled or covered up Epstein’s criminal activity. Some lawmakers say that unless those responsible face real consequences — indictments, prosecutions, or heavy penalties — justice for survivors will remain incomplete. There is also growing pressure for regulators to tighten financial-institution oversight and to re-examine how wealthy, high-risk clients are managed by private banking arms.
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Against this backdrop, Congressional oversight committees have issued subpoenas to banks for financial records tied to Epstein. James Comer, chair of the House Oversight Committee, has demanded full transparency and urged federal prosecutors to open criminal investigations, not only into bank institutions but into individuals who may have knowingly enabled or covered up Epstein’s criminal activity. Some lawmakers say that unless those responsible face real consequences — indictments, prosecutions, or heavy penalties — justice for survivors will remain incomplete. There is also growing pressure for regulators to tighten financial-institution oversight and to re-examine how wealthy, high-risk clients are managed by private banking arms.
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bobbycapucci@protonmail.com
source:
US regulators ‘taking seriously’ allegations of bankers’ support for Epstein | Banking | The Guardian
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. For years, I've been screaming into the goddamn
void like a lunatic that Jeffrey Epstein's real magic trick
wasn't the private jets or the intelligence mystique or the
billionaire cosplay. The real trick was how deeply he was
rooted inside the financial bloodstream of the planet. And every
(00:22):
single time I brought that up, people acted like I
was a drunk guy at the end of the bar
talking to a ketchup bottle. Meanwhile, the same institutions that
crashed the global economy in two thousand and eight were
whining and dining a convicted sex trafficker like he was
some kind of guru of hedge funds, and we're supposed
to just pretend that this wasn't happening. Imagine trying to
(00:42):
sell the idea that JP Morgan, one of the biggest,
most powerful financial entities in world history, just accidentally maintained
a decades long relationship with a serial predator who was
moving money like an international arms dealer. Oh, they didn't know.
They had no idea whoopsye Daisy, just a little administrative
oversight while Epstein was wiring money to buy young girls
(01:04):
and spreading cash around like holy water. And through all
the apologies and denials, these clowns still sholled doubt half
a billion dollars. They didn't settle because of their sterling
moral compass. They settled because they got caught with their
hands elbow deep in radioactive sludge. I mean, seriously, try
saying out loud that JP Morgan cut a check nearing
five hundred million dollars because they had zero liability. Try
(01:28):
saying that without sounding like somebody took a weed whacker
to your frontal lobe. You sound like a crash test
dummy that didn't make it through the windshield. There is
no universe where a corporation hands over half a billion
dollars out of the goodness of their hearts, especially a bank.
These are people who charge you a thirty five dollars
fee for having the audacity to be poor. You think
(01:50):
they just casually dropped five hundred million for kicks? Get real?
And of course now Congress is making noise, pounding desks,
pretending they're outraged. Oh yes, they're very upset. They assure
us they're going to get to the bottom of it.
Accountability is coming, they say justice is around the corner. Sure,
and I'm the Queen of England. I want to believe it,
(02:11):
I swear I do. I want to believe someone in
that meat grinder factory of political corruption actually gives a
damn about real accountability. But I'm not naive anymore. I've
seen how the sausage is made, and my appetite is gone.
The same people in Congress who are allegedly going to
get tough with Wall Street, these same politicians spend their
entire careers on their knees for corporate sugar daddies. When
(02:33):
they leave office, where do you think they go. They
don't go back home to run lemonade stands. They walk
right into cushy, seven figure consulting gigs with the very
companies that were supposedly regulating. And we're expected to believe
they're going to burn down the house they plan to
retire in. Yeah, okay, pal. People forget that the financial
sector isn't just writing checks. They're writing the rules. They're
(02:56):
writing the future. They are the architects of suffering, the
engines of misery, the Kuia puppeteers behind everything that's broken
in this country and the world. But instead of the
monocle and the top hat from Monopoly board, they've got
Patagonia fleeces and Ted Talk microphones. The same sociopathy, but
better pr yo. These banks, they're the ones playing Monopoly
(03:19):
for real. The only difference is that they're the banker
and we're the pieces. And we're not talking silver top
hat pieces. We're talking gum on the sidewalk pieces in
real life monopoly. We're not stealing from the bank. The
bank is stealing from you, your future, your time, your
ability to breathe without financial anxiety strangling you like a vice.
(03:40):
The politician signs the bill, but the financial sector signs
the check, and checks always override bills. That's the real
power structure. Every time you hear somebody say nobody's above
the law, try to keep a straight face. Nobody is
above the law except every single person rich enough to
buy a new one. They literally pick judges like they
(04:00):
picked yachts, whichever one looks the most reliable in a storm. Meanwhile,
you miss a car payment and they're at your door
with a tow truck faster than an emt responding to
a heart attack. And one of the things that's missed
when it comes to Epstein and the salaciousness of what
he was up to, is that he wasn't just exploiting
young girls. He was exploiting the banking system like it
(04:22):
was his personal piggy bank. He was wiring huge sums
of money through some of the most heavily regulated financial
institutions in the world, and somehow not one compliance officer thought, hey, boss,
something seems a little off here. Meanwhile, every damn wire
transfer you make gets flagged if you blink wrong. But
this freak is funneling millions billions through shell companies like
(04:44):
he's moving monopoly money, and nobody saw a thing. These
banks and hedge funds didn't just tolerate Epstein, they used them.
He was a currency exchange for depravity, a human router
for power and leverage. The guy wasn't a financier. He
was a constant the aerage of blackmail and other untowards bullshit.
And you don't get to operate on that level unless
(05:06):
the big boys bless the operation. You don't get to
fly around the world handing out cash like breath mints
unless someone very powerful is greasing the machine. We live
in a world where a high school teacher buys a
house and gets examined like they're applying to join the
MI six. But billionaires move money through offshore accounts like
they're playing whack a mole in the Camans, and nobody
(05:26):
asks questions. And yet we still get this theater, this
performance art of accountability, these crocodile tear hearings, these solemn
faced senators pretending to care for five camera soaked minutes
before they head off to meet their donors, and laugh
about the peasants believing any of it. I mean, the
people from two thousand and eight who got destroyed never
even got an apology. Families lost their homes, their retirement,
(05:50):
their life savings, and the people who caused it champagne
bonuses and golden parachutes. Not one motherfucker in handcuffs. Not one. Meanwhile,
a guy selling weed goes to prison for longer than
the average Wall Street criminals, sticks around in court, And
now we're watching the same exact play unfold, different casts,
same script. Epstein was a financial event masquerading as a
(06:12):
sex scandal. The real story was never just on the island.
It was in the banks. But when are we going
to stop pretending like we don't know this? When are
we going to stop giving participation trophies to institutions that
built the factory of suffering we live in. When are
we going to stop pretending that justice is coming when
we know damn well justice has been outsourced to the
(06:33):
highest bidder. Look, the truth is simple. Nothing changes until
the people who sign the checks feel the pain. Until then,
they'll keep cashing in on our misery, laughing all the
way to the bank they already own, and the rest
of us are supposed to sit here, not politely, and
pretend that accountability is coming any minute now. Today's article
is from The Guardian, and the headline US regulators taking
(06:57):
seriously allegations of banker's support for Epstein. Well, it's about time,
considering people have been yelling about this for years, and
this is the golden goose. This is how you get people.
If you really want to go after people and you
want to say they were part of a criminal enterprise,
that they were part of an organization, you hit them
with rico charges and you follow the money and on
(07:21):
the street. If you follow the money, eventually you're going
to get to the plug and then from the plug,
you're going to get to the supplier. Well, in politics,
if you follow the money long enough, eventually it goes
back to a politician. This article was authored by Kalina mccortoff.
US regulators say they're taking allegations at top banks may
have facilitated Jeffrey Epstein's criminal activity very seriously, as they
(07:46):
face calls to investigate executives, including former Barclay's bosses. Day.
In correspondence seen by The Guardian, bosses from the Office
of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation say they had reviewed a letter from the
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren which raised concerns over banker's alleged
support for the convicted child sex offender Epstein. And look,
(08:09):
there is no doubt that there is going to be
a whole healthstorm if they really follow through with this,
because there's a lot of people that had their money
intertwined with Epstein that are going to get caught up.
And I wouldn't be shocked to hear that Trump and
Epstein were involved in some deals together at some point.
Is that what Trump's scared of, is that what he's
trying to hide because he knows that the money is
(08:32):
tied up together and he doesn't want that to come
out because obviously there was a bunch of money laundering
going on. So that's something i'd keep an eye on
if I were you folks, something to follow along with,
because I think that's something that is very tangible and
that's something that's very hard to dispute. That includes Staley,
(08:52):
who Warren said had allegedly protected Epstein's access to the
banking system while working at JP Morgan in the late
two thousands. Stale has already been banned from the UK
banking sector for playing down his relationship with Epstein. This
man shouldn't even be allowed in a bank ever again,
never mind working in one. While the regulators will not
(09:12):
publicly confirm whether they were opening formal inquiries, their directors
assured Warrant that they would take action over any potential misconduct. Well,
we can all pack it in now. They said they're
going to do something about it. So I guess our
work is done here, right, because you know, they're so
reliable to follow through what the shit they say they're
gonna do. Said nobody. Ever, While it would be inappropriate
(09:36):
to comment on any specific ongoing supervisory matter. I take
very seriously any allegation of wrongdoing or abuse by banks
and bank executives. The Controller of the Currency, Jonathan Gould
said in a letter to Warren, who is a lead
Democrat on the US SENNI Committee on Banking, Housing, and
Urban Affairs. What makes her qualified to have that position?
(09:57):
By the way, She's just another one of these big
talk no was politicians that has gotten rich on the
dime of American taxpayers. Warren's original letter raised questions over
JP Morgan's wider banking relationship with the sex defender, noting
that Epstein was one of the bank's most profitable clients
before being dropped in twenty thirteen, five years after he
(10:18):
was jailed for soliciting prostitution from a minor. The well
connected financier Pedophile died in prison in July of twenty
nineteen while a wedding trial over child sex trafficking charges.
The fact that they're all acting shocked here is crazy.
I'm old enough to remember the USVII lawsuit against JP Morgan,
and I remember Discovery, and I remember all of the
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documents we went through. Is there any doubt, how deeply intertwined.
Jeffrey Epstein was at JP Morgan, and we're not just
talking about Jess Staley. We're talking about Mary Erdos, We're
talking about Jamie Diamond, We're talking about anyone who was
in the leadership structure at the time. They all hold
some responsibility and that is what we need to be
(11:02):
looking at. We need to be going after all these
bankers one hundred percent. The question is does the American
government have the wherewithal to do so? And in my opinion,
they don't. They've never done it before, so what makes
anyone think they're going to do it now. The FDIC's
acting chair of Travis Hill, said that regulator took unlawful
(11:24):
activity involving the banking sector, including possible insider involvement and
illicit activity very seriously. His letter, dated November seventeenth said
if this type of activity is identified, the watchdog would
follow standard protocol collecting and reviewing potential evidence before escalating
the matter to the FDIC's Inspector General's Office, which has
(11:46):
law enforcement power. Oh yeah, the OIG's great, they do
fantastic work. Have you seen the OIG report in the
Jeffrey Epstein's death or into the non prosecution agreement. Hell
of a job the OIG is doing. We can really
count on that wrongdoing could result in a fine and
a potential ban from working in the US banking sector.
(12:07):
Oh just a fine? Is it enough? Is enough? We
need prosecutions of these people. Why are people in the
financial sector immune? The FDIC and OCC declined to comment.
The Guardian contacted Staley's legal representative for comment. Warren said
in a statement, regulators need to investigate and hold accountable
(12:29):
Epstein's enablers, and I'll believe they're taking action when I
see it. Americans deserve to know that their banking system
isn't facilitating the disturbing crimes of the rich and powerful.
Oh it is, and not just this. We're talking about
cartel money, money from oligarchs, money from every kind of
criminal that you could possibly imagine. So yeah, the whole
(12:50):
ass system is broken. A spokesperson for JP Morgan did
not directly comment on Warren's correspondence with regulators, but in
relation to Epstein, said, we regret any association we had
with the man, but we did not help him commit
his heinous acts. We ended our relationship with him six
years before his arrest on sex trafficking charges. The federal
(13:13):
government had damning information about his crimes that they failed
to share with US or other banks. So it's a
he said. She said, right, you're not gonna win with
the federal government though. They're gonna come after you if
they want to, and they're gonna give you that Colonoscopye
we've talked about. Now, are they gonna do it to
JP Morgan. I don't think so. I think there's gonna
(13:34):
be a deal or something cut like usual that avoids
any kind of real penalties for JP Morgan. Last week,
Warren used an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen
Colbert to urge the JP Morgan chief executive, Jamie Diamond,
to testify in front of the US Senate Banking Committee.
(13:55):
People actually watch that show. Who is she talking to?
Ten people? They opened about a hundred and thirty four
different accounts from Jeffrey Epstein over these years, and they
did more than a billion dollars in transactions for Jeffrey Epstein.
He literally could walk into the bank and get fifty
million from JP Morgan Chase. So what I'd like to
do over on the Banking Committee is I'd like to
(14:17):
have mister Diamond and some of those other bankers come
in and under oath testify about exactly what the financial
trail is that kept Jeffrey Epstein afloat for so long.
And look, I'm not a big fan of Elizabeth Warren
because I don't feel like she gets anything done. But
I'm on board with that one hundred percent. And like
I've told you from the jump, I don't have to
(14:37):
like you to think you have a good idea. I
don't have to like you to stand shoulder to shoulder
with you when it comes to fighting monsters. So yeah,
not a big fan of Elizabeth Warren, but totally on
her side when it comes to this because there needs
to be a reckoning and it needs to happen soon.
JP Morgan said in a statement, Jamie never met with Epstein,
(14:58):
spoke with him, he emailed with him, and he was not
involved in any discussions about his account to which he
testified under oath. There are over a million pages of
emails and other documents produced in the case, and not
one comes even close to suggesting otherwise. Be that as
it may, who is the boss, who is the guy
sitting at the top who is the one making the decisions. Well,
(15:19):
that's the guy that's left holding the hot potato. In
my opinion, when you're the boss, the bucks should stop
with you. The bank spokesperson added, we will follow the law,
including responding to a subpoena. Our involvement with Epstein is
largely a matter of public record, with millions of pages
of discovery from litigation already publicly available. The correspondence between
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Warren and US financial regulators comes days after Donald Trump
was pressed and designing a bill that will lead to
the US Justice Department releasing all of its unclassified records,
documents and communications related to Epstein and his co conspirator
fellow child bus general all around scumbag bipedal serpent Kallayne Maxwell.
(16:05):
It follows initial backtracking by the US President, who had
come under fire for his own ties to the sex offender,
having been friends with Epstein before the pair fell out
in two thousand and four before Epstein's conviction. The documents
are expected to be released within thirty days on or
about December nineteenth. So look, with all that said, maybe
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I'm the crazy one. Maybe I'm the lunatic screaming into
the wind while the rest of the world is sipping
lattes and pretending everything's fine. Maybe I'm the asshole for
expecting even a microscopic sliver of accountability from a system
that protects predators with private jets and destroys regular people
for missing a credit card payment. But I'll tell you what,
(16:45):
I'd rather be the guy yelling than the guy pretending
not to see what's right in front of his own face,
because the silence, like I've told you, that's how they win.
And as long as we keep our mouth shut and
pretend we don't see the strings, they get to keep
pulling them. These sons of bitches want us muttering and
staring down at our shoes. What can you do like
(17:06):
broken wind up toys? Because the second we stop doing that,
when we stop treating corruption like the weather and start
treating it like the arson that it is, that's when
things will change. Until then, the banks will keep writing
checks with our futures and wiping their asses with the law.
They'll keep building empires out of suffering and calling it
free enterprise. They'll keep running the world like a casino
(17:28):
where the house always wins and we're lucky to even
walk out with our shirts, and you know what, they're
going to keep doing it with a smile and a
charity gala and a ribbon cutting ceremony about empowerment, like
they're these benevolent philanthropists instead of economic parasites with better lighting.
And that's the scam, folks, that's always been the scam.
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So go ahead and tell me again that justice is coming.
Tell me again that this time it's gonna be different.
Tell me again that the people who built the machine
are going to suddenly grow a conscious and dismantle it
with their bare hands. I'll wait, but I damn sure
won't be holding my breath. All of the information that
goes with this episode can be found in the description
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box
What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. For years, I've been screaming into the goddamn
void like a lunatic that Jeffrey Epstein's real magic trick
wasn't the private jets or the intelligence mystique or the
billionaire cosplay. The real trick was how deeply he was
rooted inside the financial bloodstream of the planet. And every
(00:22):
single time I brought that up, people acted like I
was a drunk guy at the end of the bar
talking to a ketchup bottle. Meanwhile, the same institutions that
crashed the global economy in two thousand and eight were
whining and dining a convicted sex trafficker like he was
some kind of guru of hedge funds, and we're supposed
to just pretend that this wasn't happening. Imagine trying to
(00:42):
sell the idea that JP Morgan, one of the biggest,
most powerful financial entities in world history, just accidentally maintained
a decades long relationship with a serial predator who was
moving money like an international arms dealer. Oh, they didn't know.
They had no idea whoopsye Daisy, just a little administrative
oversight while Epstein was wiring money to buy young girls
(01:04):
and spreading cash around like holy water. And through all
the apologies and denials, these clowns still sholled doubt half
a billion dollars. They didn't settle because of their sterling
moral compass. They settled because they got caught with their
hands elbow deep in radioactive sludge. I mean, seriously, try
saying out loud that JP Morgan cut a check nearing
five hundred million dollars because they had zero liability. Try
(01:28):
saying that without sounding like somebody took a weed whacker
to your frontal lobe. You sound like a crash test
dummy that didn't make it through the windshield. There is
no universe where a corporation hands over half a billion
dollars out of the goodness of their hearts, especially a bank.
These are people who charge you a thirty five dollars
fee for having the audacity to be poor. You think
(01:50):
they just casually dropped five hundred million for kicks? Get real?
And of course now Congress is making noise, pounding desks,
pretending they're outraged. Oh yes, they're very upset. They assure
us they're going to get to the bottom of it.
Accountability is coming, they say justice is around the corner. Sure,
and I'm the Queen of England. I want to believe it,
(02:11):
I swear I do. I want to believe someone in
that meat grinder factory of political corruption actually gives a
damn about real accountability. But I'm not naive anymore. I've
seen how the sausage is made, and my appetite is gone.
The same people in Congress who are allegedly going to
get tough with Wall Street, these same politicians spend their
entire careers on their knees for corporate sugar daddies. When
(02:33):
they leave office, where do you think they go. They
don't go back home to run lemonade stands. They walk
right into cushy, seven figure consulting gigs with the very
companies that were supposedly regulating. And we're expected to believe
they're going to burn down the house they plan to
retire in. Yeah, okay, pal. People forget that the financial
sector isn't just writing checks. They're writing the rules. They're
(02:56):
writing the future. They are the architects of suffering, the
engines of misery, the Kuia puppeteers behind everything that's broken
in this country and the world. But instead of the
monocle and the top hat from Monopoly board, they've got
Patagonia fleeces and Ted Talk microphones. The same sociopathy, but
better pr yo. These banks, they're the ones playing Monopoly
(03:19):
for real. The only difference is that they're the banker
and we're the pieces. And we're not talking silver top
hat pieces. We're talking gum on the sidewalk pieces in
real life monopoly. We're not stealing from the bank. The
bank is stealing from you, your future, your time, your
ability to breathe without financial anxiety strangling you like a vice.
(03:40):
The politician signs the bill, but the financial sector signs
the check, and checks always override bills. That's the real
power structure. Every time you hear somebody say nobody's above
the law, try to keep a straight face. Nobody is
above the law except every single person rich enough to
buy a new one. They literally pick judges like they
(04:00):
picked yachts, whichever one looks the most reliable in a storm. Meanwhile,
you miss a car payment and they're at your door
with a tow truck faster than an emt responding to
a heart attack. And one of the things that's missed
when it comes to Epstein and the salaciousness of what
he was up to, is that he wasn't just exploiting
young girls. He was exploiting the banking system like it
(04:22):
was his personal piggy bank. He was wiring huge sums
of money through some of the most heavily regulated financial
institutions in the world, and somehow not one compliance officer thought, hey, boss,
something seems a little off here. Meanwhile, every damn wire
transfer you make gets flagged if you blink wrong. But
this freak is funneling millions billions through shell companies like
(04:44):
he's moving monopoly money, and nobody saw a thing. These
banks and hedge funds didn't just tolerate Epstein, they used them.
He was a currency exchange for depravity, a human router
for power and leverage. The guy wasn't a financier. He
was a constant the aerage of blackmail and other untowards bullshit.
And you don't get to operate on that level unless
(05:06):
the big boys bless the operation. You don't get to
fly around the world handing out cash like breath mints
unless someone very powerful is greasing the machine. We live
in a world where a high school teacher buys a
house and gets examined like they're applying to join the
MI six. But billionaires move money through offshore accounts like
they're playing whack a mole in the Camans, and nobody
(05:26):
asks questions. And yet we still get this theater, this
performance art of accountability, these crocodile tear hearings, these solemn
faced senators pretending to care for five camera soaked minutes
before they head off to meet their donors, and laugh
about the peasants believing any of it. I mean, the
people from two thousand and eight who got destroyed never
even got an apology. Families lost their homes, their retirement,
(05:50):
their life savings, and the people who caused it champagne
bonuses and golden parachutes. Not one motherfucker in handcuffs. Not one. Meanwhile,
a guy selling weed goes to prison for longer than
the average Wall Street criminals, sticks around in court, And
now we're watching the same exact play unfold, different casts,
same script. Epstein was a financial event masquerading as a
(06:12):
sex scandal. The real story was never just on the island.
It was in the banks. But when are we going
to stop pretending like we don't know this? When are
we going to stop giving participation trophies to institutions that
built the factory of suffering we live in. When are
we going to stop pretending that justice is coming when
we know damn well justice has been outsourced to the
(06:33):
highest bidder. Look, the truth is simple. Nothing changes until
the people who sign the checks feel the pain. Until then,
they'll keep cashing in on our misery, laughing all the
way to the bank they already own, and the rest
of us are supposed to sit here, not politely, and
pretend that accountability is coming any minute now. Today's article
is from The Guardian, and the headline US regulators taking
(06:57):
seriously allegations of banker's support for Epstein. Well, it's about time,
considering people have been yelling about this for years, and
this is the golden goose. This is how you get people.
If you really want to go after people and you
want to say they were part of a criminal enterprise,
that they were part of an organization, you hit them
with rico charges and you follow the money and on
(07:21):
the street. If you follow the money, eventually you're going
to get to the plug and then from the plug,
you're going to get to the supplier. Well, in politics,
if you follow the money long enough, eventually it goes
back to a politician. This article was authored by Kalina mccortoff.
US regulators say they're taking allegations at top banks may
have facilitated Jeffrey Epstein's criminal activity very seriously, as they
(07:46):
face calls to investigate executives, including former Barclay's bosses. Day.
In correspondence seen by The Guardian, bosses from the Office
of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation say they had reviewed a letter from the
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren which raised concerns over banker's alleged
support for the convicted child sex offender Epstein. And look,
(08:09):
there is no doubt that there is going to be
a whole healthstorm if they really follow through with this,
because there's a lot of people that had their money
intertwined with Epstein that are going to get caught up.
And I wouldn't be shocked to hear that Trump and
Epstein were involved in some deals together at some point.
Is that what Trump's scared of, is that what he's
trying to hide because he knows that the money is
(08:32):
tied up together and he doesn't want that to come
out because obviously there was a bunch of money laundering
going on. So that's something i'd keep an eye on
if I were you folks, something to follow along with,
because I think that's something that is very tangible and
that's something that's very hard to dispute. That includes Staley,
(08:52):
who Warren said had allegedly protected Epstein's access to the
banking system while working at JP Morgan in the late
two thousands. Stale has already been banned from the UK
banking sector for playing down his relationship with Epstein. This
man shouldn't even be allowed in a bank ever again,
never mind working in one. While the regulators will not
(09:12):
publicly confirm whether they were opening formal inquiries, their directors
assured Warrant that they would take action over any potential misconduct. Well,
we can all pack it in now. They said they're
going to do something about it. So I guess our
work is done here, right, because you know, they're so
reliable to follow through what the shit they say they're
gonna do. Said nobody. Ever, While it would be inappropriate
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to comment on any specific ongoing supervisory matter. I take
very seriously any allegation of wrongdoing or abuse by banks
and bank executives. The Controller of the Currency, Jonathan Gould
said in a letter to Warren, who is a lead
Democrat on the US SENNI Committee on Banking, Housing, and
Urban Affairs. What makes her qualified to have that position?
(09:57):
By the way, She's just another one of these big
talk no was politicians that has gotten rich on the
dime of American taxpayers. Warren's original letter raised questions over
JP Morgan's wider banking relationship with the sex defender, noting
that Epstein was one of the bank's most profitable clients
before being dropped in twenty thirteen, five years after he
(10:18):
was jailed for soliciting prostitution from a minor. The well
connected financier Pedophile died in prison in July of twenty
nineteen while a wedding trial over child sex trafficking charges.
The fact that they're all acting shocked here is crazy.
I'm old enough to remember the USVII lawsuit against JP Morgan,
and I remember Discovery, and I remember all of the
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documents we went through. Is there any doubt, how deeply intertwined.
Jeffrey Epstein was at JP Morgan, and we're not just
talking about Jess Staley. We're talking about Mary Erdos, We're
talking about Jamie Diamond, We're talking about anyone who was
in the leadership structure at the time. They all hold
some responsibility and that is what we need to be
(11:02):
looking at. We need to be going after all these
bankers one hundred percent. The question is does the American
government have the wherewithal to do so? And in my opinion,
they don't. They've never done it before, so what makes
anyone think they're going to do it now. The FDIC's
acting chair of Travis Hill, said that regulator took unlawful
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activity involving the banking sector, including possible insider involvement and
illicit activity very seriously. His letter, dated November seventeenth said
if this type of activity is identified, the watchdog would
follow standard protocol collecting and reviewing potential evidence before escalating
the matter to the FDIC's Inspector General's Office, which has
(11:46):
law enforcement power. Oh yeah, the OIG's great, they do
fantastic work. Have you seen the OIG report in the
Jeffrey Epstein's death or into the non prosecution agreement. Hell
of a job the OIG is doing. We can really
count on that wrongdoing could result in a fine and
a potential ban from working in the US banking sector.
(12:07):
Oh just a fine? Is it enough? Is enough? We
need prosecutions of these people. Why are people in the
financial sector immune? The FDIC and OCC declined to comment.
The Guardian contacted Staley's legal representative for comment. Warren said
in a statement, regulators need to investigate and hold accountable
(12:29):
Epstein's enablers, and I'll believe they're taking action when I
see it. Americans deserve to know that their banking system
isn't facilitating the disturbing crimes of the rich and powerful.
Oh it is, and not just this. We're talking about
cartel money, money from oligarchs, money from every kind of
criminal that you could possibly imagine. So yeah, the whole
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ass system is broken. A spokesperson for JP Morgan did
not directly comment on Warren's correspondence with regulators, but in
relation to Epstein, said, we regret any association we had
with the man, but we did not help him commit
his heinous acts. We ended our relationship with him six
years before his arrest on sex trafficking charges. The federal
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government had damning information about his crimes that they failed
to share with US or other banks. So it's a
he said. She said, right, you're not gonna win with
the federal government though. They're gonna come after you if
they want to, and they're gonna give you that Colonoscopye
we've talked about. Now, are they gonna do it to
JP Morgan. I don't think so. I think there's gonna
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be a deal or something cut like usual that avoids
any kind of real penalties for JP Morgan. Last week,
Warren used an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen
Colbert to urge the JP Morgan chief executive, Jamie Diamond,
to testify in front of the US Senate Banking Committee.
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People actually watch that show. Who is she talking to?
Ten people? They opened about a hundred and thirty four
different accounts from Jeffrey Epstein over these years, and they
did more than a billion dollars in transactions for Jeffrey Epstein.
He literally could walk into the bank and get fifty
million from JP Morgan Chase. So what I'd like to
do over on the Banking Committee is I'd like to
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have mister Diamond and some of those other bankers come
in and under oath testify about exactly what the financial
trail is that kept Jeffrey Epstein afloat for so long.
And look, I'm not a big fan of Elizabeth Warren
because I don't feel like she gets anything done. But
I'm on board with that one hundred percent. And like
I've told you from the jump, I don't have to
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like you to think you have a good idea. I
don't have to like you to stand shoulder to shoulder
with you when it comes to fighting monsters. So yeah,
not a big fan of Elizabeth Warren, but totally on
her side when it comes to this because there needs
to be a reckoning and it needs to happen soon.
JP Morgan said in a statement, Jamie never met with Epstein,
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spoke with him, he emailed with him, and he was not
involved in any discussions about his account to which he
testified under oath. There are over a million pages of
emails and other documents produced in the case, and not
one comes even close to suggesting otherwise. Be that as
it may, who is the boss, who is the guy
sitting at the top who is the one making the decisions. Well,
(15:19):
that's the guy that's left holding the hot potato. In
my opinion, when you're the boss, the bucks should stop
with you. The bank spokesperson added, we will follow the law,
including responding to a subpoena. Our involvement with Epstein is
largely a matter of public record, with millions of pages
of discovery from litigation already publicly available. The correspondence between
(15:43):
Warren and US financial regulators comes days after Donald Trump
was pressed and designing a bill that will lead to
the US Justice Department releasing all of its unclassified records,
documents and communications related to Epstein and his co conspirator
fellow child bus general all around scumbag bipedal serpent Kallayne Maxwell.
(16:05):
It follows initial backtracking by the US President, who had
come under fire for his own ties to the sex offender,
having been friends with Epstein before the pair fell out
in two thousand and four before Epstein's conviction. The documents
are expected to be released within thirty days on or
about December nineteenth. So look, with all that said, maybe
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I'm the crazy one. Maybe I'm the lunatic screaming into
the wind while the rest of the world is sipping
lattes and pretending everything's fine. Maybe I'm the asshole for
expecting even a microscopic sliver of accountability from a system
that protects predators with private jets and destroys regular people
for missing a credit card payment. But I'll tell you what,
(16:45):
I'd rather be the guy yelling than the guy pretending
not to see what's right in front of his own face,
because the silence, like I've told you, that's how they win.
And as long as we keep our mouth shut and
pretend we don't see the strings, they get to keep
pulling them. These sons of bitches want us muttering and
staring down at our shoes. What can you do like
(17:06):
broken wind up toys? Because the second we stop doing that,
when we stop treating corruption like the weather and start
treating it like the arson that it is, that's when
things will change. Until then, the banks will keep writing
checks with our futures and wiping their asses with the law.
They'll keep building empires out of suffering and calling it
free enterprise. They'll keep running the world like a casino
(17:28):
where the house always wins and we're lucky to even
walk out with our shirts, and you know what, they're
going to keep doing it with a smile and a
charity gala and a ribbon cutting ceremony about empowerment, like
they're these benevolent philanthropists instead of economic parasites with better lighting.
And that's the scam, folks, that's always been the scam.
(17:50):
So go ahead and tell me again that justice is coming.
Tell me again that this time it's gonna be different.
Tell me again that the people who built the machine
are going to suddenly grow a conscious and dismantle it
with their bare hands. I'll wait, but I damn sure
won't be holding my breath. All of the information that
goes with this episode can be found in the description
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