October 16, 2025 • 18 mins
A woman, filing under the pseudonym Jane Doe, has sued Bank of America and Bank of New York Mellon in Manhattan federal court, accusing them of playing a financial role in enabling Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation. She alleges that Epstein and his associates used her Bank of America account—opened at the direction of Epstein’s accountant—as a conduit for rent payments, payroll for a “sham company,” and other transfers. The complaint claims the banks ignored obvious red flags, failed to file required Suspicious Activity Reports in a timely fashion, and thereby breached their duty to report illicit financial flows.
In the case against BNY Mellon, the lawsuit claims the bank processed as much as $378 million in transactions linked to a modeling agency (MC2) allegedly used by Epstein and his associates in trafficking operations. The complaint contends that BNY Mellon either turned a blind eye to or actively facilitated these flows, benefiting from them financially while violating anti-trafficking and anti–money laundering norms. The plaintiff seeks unspecified damages and class-action status, arguing that the banks “knowingly benefited” from Epstein’s scheme and should be held accountable.
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In the case against BNY Mellon, the lawsuit claims the bank processed as much as $378 million in transactions linked to a modeling agency (MC2) allegedly used by Epstein and his associates in trafficking operations. The complaint contends that BNY Mellon either turned a blind eye to or actively facilitated these flows, benefiting from them financially while violating anti-trafficking and anti–money laundering norms. The plaintiff seeks unspecified damages and class-action status, arguing that the banks “knowingly benefited” from Epstein’s scheme and should be held accountable.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. You ever notice how these Wall Street vampires
like Bank of America and Bank of New York Melon
always act shocked, shocked when one of their high valued
clients turns out to be a full blown monster. Oh,
they'll clutch their pearls like debutants at a scandalball, pretending
(00:22):
they had no clue the creep they were wiring millions
for was knee deep in trafficking, bribery, and god knows
what else. Like, they didn't just spend a decade rolling
out the red carpet helping them shuffle blood money around
like it was monopoly cash. What we're talking about here
aren't innocent bankers. We're talking about a concierge service for
Evil Epstein wasn't some fluke. Rather, he was a customer profile, wealthy,
(00:47):
check connected, check, morally bankrupt, perfect fit. And the way
they played dumb afterwards is almost artful. We had no
idea about mister Epstein's activities. Really, the guy's reputation was
radioactive before half your junior analysts even graduated. You expect
us to believe that your multi billion dollar compliance department
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equipped with forensic accountants, more lawyers than a courthouse, just
missed the red flags, the shell companies, the donations to
random charities, the constant wires to young women. Hell, even
a Walmart cashier would have called the manager after seeing
that kind of pattern. But you, you saw the money,
you saw the name, and you decided your moral compass
(01:30):
could take the night off. Look. Bank of America and
Bank of New York Mellon didn't just look the other way.
They held the flashlight. They processed the payments, they managed
his accounts, and they made sure the whole grow tesque
operation ran smooth as silk. You can practically hear the
pitch meetings. Now, yes, sir, we can help structure that
offshore account, and would you like to bundle that with
(01:52):
our predator's preferred wealth management package. They weren't blind. They
were busy, busy making money, busy calculated risk, busy figuring
out how to keep one of the world's most notorious
scumbags as a client without getting their own hands caught
in the cookie jar spoiler. They failed, And now when
it all blows up, they do what Corporate America always does,
(02:15):
call in the crisis PR team CUE the sad piano
music and the empty statement. We take these allegations very seriously. Yeah, sure,
you take them seriously, the same way a fentanyl attic
takes his health seriously. Next will be the promise of
an internal review, which we all know as code for
let's make sure nobody important gets burned. They'll settle for
(02:35):
a fine that costs less than a single quarter's earnings,
and they'll call it justice. The executives will keep their bonuses,
the shareholders will nod, and the cycle rolls on. Epstein's
money might be gone, but his ghost is still cash
and checks. Look these banks foreign victims. There were architects.
They were the ones pouring concrete into the foundation of corruption,
(02:56):
setting up accounts, legitimizing cash flow, laundering, reput mutation, and
money in the same breath. Epstein's empire could have existed
without a network of bankers willing to look the other
way while pocketing their cut. That's the dirty secret. The
real enablers didn't wear sweatpants on private islands. They wore
a thousand dollars suits in boardrooms. They're the ones who
(03:18):
smile politely while helping a predator keep his books clean
and his crimes funded, and now here they are trying
to reinvent themselves as bastions of integrity. Bank of America
suddenly cares about ethics. Bank of New York Melon moral
guardians of finance. Please, these same people will lecture you
on financial literacy while their own institutions were practically the
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accounting department for an international trafficking ring. So yeah, I'm
done buying the excuses. These weren't accidents, they weren't oversights.
They were choices, deliberate, profitable, soulless choices. They made millions
off Epstein's network, off the stench of corruption that's still
clinging to their vaults like mold. And no matter how
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how you chop it, Bank of America and Bank of
New York Melon were Epstein laundry mats. They didn't clean
his image. They just made sure the stains didn't show
on the balance sheets. And now they stand there acting
like its ancient history, like we're supposed to forget. The
truth is every dollar they moved for that man was
another knell in the coffin of accountability. Epstein's gone, but
(04:21):
his money's fingerprints are still on the ledger and the
saddest part, No one in those towers is ever going
to face real consequences, not the execs, not the managers,
not the compliance officers, who would approve just another scandal
to file away, another round of denials in pr spend
business as usual, dirty money, clean hands. That's the American
(04:42):
banking way. Today's article is from the New York Post
and the headline Bank of America b and Y suit
over alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein. This article was authored
by Area Zilber, a woman who says Jeffrey Epstein sexually
abused the at least one hundred times. Is soon in
Bank of America and Bank of New York Mellon over
(05:05):
their alleged ties to the convicted predator, accusing the banks
of maintaining relationships with them and failing to report suspicious
activities until after his death in twenty nineteen. Well, all
of that's true. Good luck trying to defend that. We
know that's a fact. We know that Epstein was moving
money through these banks. We know that these banks weren't
(05:25):
filling out the stars, and we know that there was
no kind of compliance when it comes to Epstein, which
is crazy as hell. Considering that when you're in a
position like that one of those banks and you have
those compliance offices, that's the whole point, right, to make
sure that you're not moving dirty money. I mean when
I was managing the sportsbook, we have the same kind
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of compliance issues. Like if I thought somebody was using
drug money to make a bet, Say you walked in
and you PLoP down a bag of money and it
smelled like pot, I would have to file a SAR
and then that would go to fincind and then whatever
happened from there happened. But I covered my ass by
filing that t SAR. And we're not talking about millions
(06:10):
of dollars here, folks. Meanwhile, you have Jeffrey Epstein moving
this money all over the place, sending it to god
knows who, and there's no compliance, there's no management of that.
The class action lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal Court on
Wednesday on behalf of A. Jane Doe and other alleged
Epstein's survivors, claimed the SIKO couldn't have run his trafficking
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operation without special treatment from banks, including the defendants. This
is the right way to go if you're really looking
for the boogeyman here you found them. The financial sector
is the blame now, of course, not the whole blame, right,
but the vast majority of it. They're the ones that
protected his money, They're the ones that moved the money.
(06:53):
They're the ones that made it possible for him to
do what he did. And I've been telling you folks
that for years. Let other people talk about nonsense and
cabals and this that the other thing. That's what these
financial sector dickheads want. They want you chasing ghosts. And
while you're busy doing that, they're going to continue to
swim in their money like Scrooge fucking McDuck. The complaint
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against Bank of America, the second biggest bank in the US,
graphically describes the sexual violence Epstein allegedly inflicted on the plaintiff.
From twenty eleven through twenty nineteen, Epstein sexually abused Jane
Doe on at least one hundred occasions, including but not
limited to, forcibly touching her, forcibly raping her, and forcing
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her to engage in sexual acts with other women for
his own depraved sexual gratification. The lawsuit stated, well, all
of that's exactly what Epstein was up to. So I
have no doubt that Jane Doe's telling the truth. And
my guess is Bank of America and Melon they're going
to end up settling. I highly doubt this turns into
a trial or even gets to a point where where
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it becomes contentious. We've all seen what happens with the
banks already, and they don't have a good track record
when it comes to dealing with these kinds of allegations.
They just pay the fine right whatever it's going to be,
and that's because it's better for them. They don't have
to go through the rigamarole of discovery. They don't have
to be outed. You know, emails aren't going to be
(08:20):
made public. So I expect a settlement at some point.
Maybe not right away, but I definitely expect there to
be a settlement. The document also cites previous reports to
illustrate the scale of the siko's alleged crimes, noting that
Epstein had been sexually abusing three to four young females
per day. It was a full time job for him.
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The suit stated the plaintiff is going by Jane Doe
because of the highly sensitive and personal nature of the
matter and concerns about possible retaliation. The suit said, always
the concern whenever you're dealing with a bank, for sure,
especially when you're dealing with a bank and it has
to do with Epstein, you never know what's coming your way.
(09:02):
So these women, they're very cautious about, you know, releasing
their names, and in most cases the court has agreed
to grant them anonymity because they understand how dangerous it
is for them. Now, if you juxtapose that with Ditty,
you see how many people were forced to reveal their identity,
and that's because the court obviously believes that Ditty doesn't
have the ability to press people the way that Epstein did.
(09:25):
And that's why you see this almost blanket immunity for
Epstein's victims. And also a lot of them were underage,
so that is a huge factor when you're weighing anonymity
inside of the courtroom, right and with a lot of
Ditty's accusers, they didn't meet the legal threshold to keep
that shield of anonymity. And it just goes to show
(09:46):
you the level here that Epstein was operating at. Spokespersons
for Bank of America and BNY Melon had no immediate comment. Now,
imagine being somebody that tries to get I don't know,
a credit card from Bank of America or a bank
of melt Ellen and they deny you. Meanwhile, they're out
here process in Epstein's money after everybody knew he was
(10:06):
a diddler. No big deal as long as he's bringing
money in. Now you, how dare you be poor? How
dare you have a credit score of six hundred? You're
not getting shited from us. It's amazing to me that
folks don't understand who the real villain is in not
just this story, but just about every story. The legal
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action centers on claims that Jane Doe, plaintiff, opened a
Bank of America account in May of twenty thirteen at
the instruction of Epstein's accountant, adding that he transferred about
fourteen thousand dollars into it. Epstein and the accountant continued
to use the account set up for the woman at
the bank for years, including one that lasted until twenty nineteen,
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the year Epstein committed suicide allegedly in a Manhattan jel cell.
The suit said. News of the Bank of America lawsuit,
which seeks unspecified financial damages, was first report art by
The Wall Street Journal. The new cases add to the
growing legal fallout over Epstein's banking relationships. Well, yeah, look,
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you can't do what he did without having the financial
support of the financial sector. And it wasn't just one
bank or one institution, it was many. They all knew
the deal, and once again they did not care. The
latest suits were brought by lawyers including Brad Edwards and
David Boyce, who have represented many of Epstein's victims and
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previously filed similar class action suits against JP Morgan and
Deutsche Bank in twenty twenty two. The other banks responsible
for allowing Epstein's trafficking should have contacted us during the
previous litigation to do the right thing for these victims,
Edwards told the journal. It's said that only through lawsuits
in Congress are we able to bring justice to the
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obvious problem. He added, and it is sad. If these
banks really cared, if they wanted to do the right thing,
they would have stepped up. Hey, look, we were bank
in Epstein. We didn't really know what was going on.
Here's our books, here's what was happening, and we're willing
to take whatever punishment's coming our way. But no, what
they'll do is a lobby lawmakers. They'll lobby this one
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and that one the Justice Department, and you'll see it'll
just be a fine. Nobody's going to be held accountable.
The plaintiffs accused B and Why of giving a line
of credit to the modeling agency MC two, Epstein and
French model scout Jean lu Burnel allegedly use the agency
to traffic victims, as B and Y process three hundred
and seventy eight million in payments to women trafficked by Epstein.
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The suit sided Federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act, the main
US law targeting sex trafficking. It enables women or victims
to sue not only their traffickers, but anyone who knowingly
benefits from a sex trafficking venture too. The complaints included
related toward claims under New York law, which the Federal
Court has jurisdiction to hear alongside the federal courts. Previous
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suits against big banks resulted in settlements. JP Morgan and
Deutsche Bank have said that they regret their relationship with
Epstein and settled the suits in twenty twenty three without
admitting wrongdoing. JP Morgan agreed to pay two hundred and
ninety million to victims, while Deutsche Bank paid seventy five million.
Epstein's estate recently provided Congress a list of more than
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twenty banks that held accounts for the perverted financier, pedophile
and entities related to him. Several banks had accounts for
Epstein in his later years, according to the Journal, I
just can't even wrap my mind around that, Like, imagine
being the guy who makes that call. Oh yeah, let's
take Jeffrey Epstein's business. Sounds like a great idea. Never
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mind the trail of fucking tears he's left in his wake.
We can make some money here. Banks are required to
monitor and report suspicious activities to avoid enabling money laundering
and other criminal activity. Senate Finance Committee ranking member Senator
Ron Wyden recently revealed that several banks filed suspicious activity
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reports or stars after Epstein's twenty nineteen arrest years after
the transactions occurred. Well that was by design. Oh, we
forgot to file these back in, you know, two thousand
and four. But here it is twenty nineteen. Let's get
to work. Bank of America filed reports in twenty twenty
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covering one hundred and fifty million dollars in transactions between
Jeffrey Epstein and billionaire investor Leon Black, the former CEO
of Apollo Global Management. Oh you know, his son works
for the Trump administration. Now, no conflict of interest here.
A review by Apollo's board found that Black paid Epstein
for his state planning and and tax services. Really, Leon
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Black paid Jeffrey Epstein for tax advice and the state
planning advice. Yeah, seems legit. One of the richest men
in the world, one of the most powerful men in
the world onboarding Jeffrey Epstein to take care of his finances. Okay,
I guess. House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin recently
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sent letters to the CEOs of BNY Mellon, Bank of America,
JP Morgan, and Deutsche Bank asking how Epstein and his
associates were able to conduct more than one point five
billion in suspicious transactions for years without detection. The House
Judiciary Committee has deliberated sending subpoenas to the banks after
internal congressional memos showed repeated delays in reporting large transfers
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tied to Epstein and his network. Well, yeah, no shit,
dude was moving money all over the place, paying co
conspirators and only the baby Jesus knows who else. Last year,
The New York Times revealed that Bank of America process
Epstein related payments through at least twenty eighteen, despite earlier
internal warnings about cash withdrawals and transfers to accounts link
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to young women. Again, no big deal, profit over people.
As long as we can make a few bucks. Hey,
we're here for it. Senate investigators have demanded the bank
explained how it handled those transactions and whether any of
its compliance staff raise concerns internally before Epstein's death. In
a letter released this month, Wyden said financial institutions must
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show the public they are not shielding the powerful and
connected from accountability. He called on the Treasury Department to
release all Epstein related financial records still under seal. Well,
that's a good idea. Release it all, follow the money.
And if you do that, well you're gonna find the
real villain. And like I've been telling you four years now,
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the real villain here isn't the boogeyman under your bed.
It's not your neighbor. No, it's these people that we're
talking about right now, the people that knew what Jeffrey
Epstein was and continue to do business with them anyway.
And you know what the saddest part is, these Bank
of America, Bank of New York Melon, They're gonna walk
away from all of this without so much as a scratch,
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few headlines, a couple of settlements, maybe some retraining sessions
on ethics led by the same people who greenlit Epstein's
wire transfers, and then it's right back to business. They'll
keep cashing in on the next scumbag who strolls through
the door wearing a Rolex and wreaking a scandal, because
as long as the money's green, nobody cares where it
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comes from. That's the golden rule of finance. Morality is negotiable,
but interest rates aren't. And the rest of us we're
supposed to just sit here and pretend that it's all normal,
Pretend that billion dollar institutions didn't know. Pretend the same
people who will flag your debit card for buying a
sandwich out of state somehow missed Epstein moving millions from
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Michelle company named after his pat iguana. Yeah, okay, these
people don't just insult your intelligence, They mug it in
broad daylight. But that's the game, isn't it. They run
the world, they write the rules, and when they get caught,
they buy the judge, rewrite the script and call it
a misunderstanding. They talk about accountability the same way an
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arsonist talks about fire safety, and we all know how
it ends. No arrests, no handcuffs, no real consequences, just
another press release about moving forward. Meanwhile, the rest of
us get lectured about financial responsibility by the same crooks
who turned a predator into a preferred client. So, yeah,
forgive me if I'm not buying the whole We had
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no idea routine. Epstein might be gone, but the machine
that made him possible still humming, still counting, still cashing in,
and the banks they're right there, polishing the gears and
smiling for the cameras. The only difference now is there
a little quieter about it, like vampires after dawn, waiting
for the next fool to invite them back in. All
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What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. You ever notice how these Wall Street vampires
like Bank of America and Bank of New York Melon
always act shocked, shocked when one of their high valued
clients turns out to be a full blown monster. Oh,
they'll clutch their pearls like debutants at a scandalball, pretending
(00:22):
they had no clue the creep they were wiring millions
for was knee deep in trafficking, bribery, and god knows
what else. Like, they didn't just spend a decade rolling
out the red carpet helping them shuffle blood money around
like it was monopoly cash. What we're talking about here
aren't innocent bankers. We're talking about a concierge service for
Evil Epstein wasn't some fluke. Rather, he was a customer profile, wealthy,
(00:47):
check connected, check, morally bankrupt, perfect fit. And the way
they played dumb afterwards is almost artful. We had no
idea about mister Epstein's activities. Really, the guy's reputation was
radioactive before half your junior analysts even graduated. You expect
us to believe that your multi billion dollar compliance department
(01:09):
equipped with forensic accountants, more lawyers than a courthouse, just
missed the red flags, the shell companies, the donations to
random charities, the constant wires to young women. Hell, even
a Walmart cashier would have called the manager after seeing
that kind of pattern. But you, you saw the money,
you saw the name, and you decided your moral compass
(01:30):
could take the night off. Look. Bank of America and
Bank of New York Mellon didn't just look the other way.
They held the flashlight. They processed the payments, they managed
his accounts, and they made sure the whole grow tesque
operation ran smooth as silk. You can practically hear the
pitch meetings. Now, yes, sir, we can help structure that
offshore account, and would you like to bundle that with
(01:52):
our predator's preferred wealth management package. They weren't blind. They
were busy, busy making money, busy calculated risk, busy figuring
out how to keep one of the world's most notorious
scumbags as a client without getting their own hands caught
in the cookie jar spoiler. They failed, And now when
it all blows up, they do what Corporate America always does,
(02:15):
call in the crisis PR team CUE the sad piano
music and the empty statement. We take these allegations very seriously. Yeah, sure,
you take them seriously, the same way a fentanyl attic
takes his health seriously. Next will be the promise of
an internal review, which we all know as code for
let's make sure nobody important gets burned. They'll settle for
(02:35):
a fine that costs less than a single quarter's earnings,
and they'll call it justice. The executives will keep their bonuses,
the shareholders will nod, and the cycle rolls on. Epstein's
money might be gone, but his ghost is still cash
and checks. Look these banks foreign victims. There were architects.
They were the ones pouring concrete into the foundation of corruption,
(02:56):
setting up accounts, legitimizing cash flow, laundering, reput mutation, and
money in the same breath. Epstein's empire could have existed
without a network of bankers willing to look the other
way while pocketing their cut. That's the dirty secret. The
real enablers didn't wear sweatpants on private islands. They wore
a thousand dollars suits in boardrooms. They're the ones who
(03:18):
smile politely while helping a predator keep his books clean
and his crimes funded, and now here they are trying
to reinvent themselves as bastions of integrity. Bank of America
suddenly cares about ethics. Bank of New York Melon moral
guardians of finance. Please, these same people will lecture you
on financial literacy while their own institutions were practically the
(03:39):
accounting department for an international trafficking ring. So yeah, I'm
done buying the excuses. These weren't accidents, they weren't oversights.
They were choices, deliberate, profitable, soulless choices. They made millions
off Epstein's network, off the stench of corruption that's still
clinging to their vaults like mold. And no matter how
(04:00):
how you chop it, Bank of America and Bank of
New York Melon were Epstein laundry mats. They didn't clean
his image. They just made sure the stains didn't show
on the balance sheets. And now they stand there acting
like its ancient history, like we're supposed to forget. The
truth is every dollar they moved for that man was
another knell in the coffin of accountability. Epstein's gone, but
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his money's fingerprints are still on the ledger and the
saddest part, No one in those towers is ever going
to face real consequences, not the execs, not the managers,
not the compliance officers, who would approve just another scandal
to file away, another round of denials in pr spend
business as usual, dirty money, clean hands. That's the American
(04:42):
banking way. Today's article is from the New York Post
and the headline Bank of America b and Y suit
over alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein. This article was authored
by Area Zilber, a woman who says Jeffrey Epstein sexually
abused the at least one hundred times. Is soon in
Bank of America and Bank of New York Mellon over
(05:05):
their alleged ties to the convicted predator, accusing the banks
of maintaining relationships with them and failing to report suspicious
activities until after his death in twenty nineteen. Well, all
of that's true. Good luck trying to defend that. We
know that's a fact. We know that Epstein was moving
money through these banks. We know that these banks weren't
(05:25):
filling out the stars, and we know that there was
no kind of compliance when it comes to Epstein, which
is crazy as hell. Considering that when you're in a
position like that one of those banks and you have
those compliance offices, that's the whole point, right, to make
sure that you're not moving dirty money. I mean when
I was managing the sportsbook, we have the same kind
(05:47):
of compliance issues. Like if I thought somebody was using
drug money to make a bet, Say you walked in
and you PLoP down a bag of money and it
smelled like pot, I would have to file a SAR
and then that would go to fincind and then whatever
happened from there happened. But I covered my ass by
filing that t SAR. And we're not talking about millions
(06:10):
of dollars here, folks. Meanwhile, you have Jeffrey Epstein moving
this money all over the place, sending it to god
knows who, and there's no compliance, there's no management of that.
The class action lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal Court on
Wednesday on behalf of A. Jane Doe and other alleged
Epstein's survivors, claimed the SIKO couldn't have run his trafficking
(06:31):
operation without special treatment from banks, including the defendants. This
is the right way to go if you're really looking
for the boogeyman here you found them. The financial sector
is the blame now, of course, not the whole blame, right,
but the vast majority of it. They're the ones that
protected his money, They're the ones that moved the money.
(06:53):
They're the ones that made it possible for him to
do what he did. And I've been telling you folks
that for years. Let other people talk about nonsense and
cabals and this that the other thing. That's what these
financial sector dickheads want. They want you chasing ghosts. And
while you're busy doing that, they're going to continue to
swim in their money like Scrooge fucking McDuck. The complaint
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against Bank of America, the second biggest bank in the US,
graphically describes the sexual violence Epstein allegedly inflicted on the plaintiff.
From twenty eleven through twenty nineteen, Epstein sexually abused Jane
Doe on at least one hundred occasions, including but not
limited to, forcibly touching her, forcibly raping her, and forcing
(07:37):
her to engage in sexual acts with other women for
his own depraved sexual gratification. The lawsuit stated, well, all
of that's exactly what Epstein was up to. So I
have no doubt that Jane Doe's telling the truth. And
my guess is Bank of America and Melon they're going
to end up settling. I highly doubt this turns into
a trial or even gets to a point where where
(08:00):
it becomes contentious. We've all seen what happens with the
banks already, and they don't have a good track record
when it comes to dealing with these kinds of allegations.
They just pay the fine right whatever it's going to be,
and that's because it's better for them. They don't have
to go through the rigamarole of discovery. They don't have
to be outed. You know, emails aren't going to be
(08:20):
made public. So I expect a settlement at some point.
Maybe not right away, but I definitely expect there to
be a settlement. The document also cites previous reports to
illustrate the scale of the siko's alleged crimes, noting that
Epstein had been sexually abusing three to four young females
per day. It was a full time job for him.
(08:41):
The suit stated the plaintiff is going by Jane Doe
because of the highly sensitive and personal nature of the
matter and concerns about possible retaliation. The suit said, always
the concern whenever you're dealing with a bank, for sure,
especially when you're dealing with a bank and it has
to do with Epstein, you never know what's coming your way.
(09:02):
So these women, they're very cautious about, you know, releasing
their names, and in most cases the court has agreed
to grant them anonymity because they understand how dangerous it
is for them. Now, if you juxtapose that with Ditty,
you see how many people were forced to reveal their identity,
and that's because the court obviously believes that Ditty doesn't
have the ability to press people the way that Epstein did.
(09:25):
And that's why you see this almost blanket immunity for
Epstein's victims. And also a lot of them were underage,
so that is a huge factor when you're weighing anonymity
inside of the courtroom, right and with a lot of
Ditty's accusers, they didn't meet the legal threshold to keep
that shield of anonymity. And it just goes to show
(09:46):
you the level here that Epstein was operating at. Spokespersons
for Bank of America and BNY Melon had no immediate comment. Now,
imagine being somebody that tries to get I don't know,
a credit card from Bank of America or a bank
of melt Ellen and they deny you. Meanwhile, they're out
here process in Epstein's money after everybody knew he was
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a diddler. No big deal as long as he's bringing
money in. Now you, how dare you be poor? How
dare you have a credit score of six hundred? You're
not getting shited from us. It's amazing to me that
folks don't understand who the real villain is in not
just this story, but just about every story. The legal
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action centers on claims that Jane Doe, plaintiff, opened a
Bank of America account in May of twenty thirteen at
the instruction of Epstein's accountant, adding that he transferred about
fourteen thousand dollars into it. Epstein and the accountant continued
to use the account set up for the woman at
the bank for years, including one that lasted until twenty nineteen,
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the year Epstein committed suicide allegedly in a Manhattan jel cell.
The suit said. News of the Bank of America lawsuit,
which seeks unspecified financial damages, was first report art by
The Wall Street Journal. The new cases add to the
growing legal fallout over Epstein's banking relationships. Well, yeah, look,
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you can't do what he did without having the financial
support of the financial sector. And it wasn't just one
bank or one institution, it was many. They all knew
the deal, and once again they did not care. The
latest suits were brought by lawyers including Brad Edwards and
David Boyce, who have represented many of Epstein's victims and
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previously filed similar class action suits against JP Morgan and
Deutsche Bank in twenty twenty two. The other banks responsible
for allowing Epstein's trafficking should have contacted us during the
previous litigation to do the right thing for these victims,
Edwards told the journal. It's said that only through lawsuits
in Congress are we able to bring justice to the
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obvious problem. He added, and it is sad. If these
banks really cared, if they wanted to do the right thing,
they would have stepped up. Hey, look, we were bank
in Epstein. We didn't really know what was going on.
Here's our books, here's what was happening, and we're willing
to take whatever punishment's coming our way. But no, what
they'll do is a lobby lawmakers. They'll lobby this one
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and that one the Justice Department, and you'll see it'll
just be a fine. Nobody's going to be held accountable.
The plaintiffs accused B and Why of giving a line
of credit to the modeling agency MC two, Epstein and
French model scout Jean lu Burnel allegedly use the agency
to traffic victims, as B and Y process three hundred
and seventy eight million in payments to women trafficked by Epstein.
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The suit sided Federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act, the main
US law targeting sex trafficking. It enables women or victims
to sue not only their traffickers, but anyone who knowingly
benefits from a sex trafficking venture too. The complaints included
related toward claims under New York law, which the Federal
Court has jurisdiction to hear alongside the federal courts. Previous
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suits against big banks resulted in settlements. JP Morgan and
Deutsche Bank have said that they regret their relationship with
Epstein and settled the suits in twenty twenty three without
admitting wrongdoing. JP Morgan agreed to pay two hundred and
ninety million to victims, while Deutsche Bank paid seventy five million.
Epstein's estate recently provided Congress a list of more than
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twenty banks that held accounts for the perverted financier, pedophile
and entities related to him. Several banks had accounts for
Epstein in his later years, according to the Journal, I
just can't even wrap my mind around that, Like, imagine
being the guy who makes that call. Oh yeah, let's
take Jeffrey Epstein's business. Sounds like a great idea. Never
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mind the trail of fucking tears he's left in his wake.
We can make some money here. Banks are required to
monitor and report suspicious activities to avoid enabling money laundering
and other criminal activity. Senate Finance Committee ranking member Senator
Ron Wyden recently revealed that several banks filed suspicious activity
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reports or stars after Epstein's twenty nineteen arrest years after
the transactions occurred. Well that was by design. Oh, we
forgot to file these back in, you know, two thousand
and four. But here it is twenty nineteen. Let's get
to work. Bank of America filed reports in twenty twenty
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covering one hundred and fifty million dollars in transactions between
Jeffrey Epstein and billionaire investor Leon Black, the former CEO
of Apollo Global Management. Oh you know, his son works
for the Trump administration. Now, no conflict of interest here.
A review by Apollo's board found that Black paid Epstein
for his state planning and and tax services. Really, Leon
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Black paid Jeffrey Epstein for tax advice and the state
planning advice. Yeah, seems legit. One of the richest men
in the world, one of the most powerful men in
the world onboarding Jeffrey Epstein to take care of his finances. Okay,
I guess. House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin recently
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sent letters to the CEOs of BNY Mellon, Bank of America,
JP Morgan, and Deutsche Bank asking how Epstein and his
associates were able to conduct more than one point five
billion in suspicious transactions for years without detection. The House
Judiciary Committee has deliberated sending subpoenas to the banks after
internal congressional memos showed repeated delays in reporting large transfers
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tied to Epstein and his network. Well, yeah, no shit,
dude was moving money all over the place, paying co
conspirators and only the baby Jesus knows who else. Last year,
The New York Times revealed that Bank of America process
Epstein related payments through at least twenty eighteen, despite earlier
internal warnings about cash withdrawals and transfers to accounts link
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to young women. Again, no big deal, profit over people.
As long as we can make a few bucks. Hey,
we're here for it. Senate investigators have demanded the bank
explained how it handled those transactions and whether any of
its compliance staff raise concerns internally before Epstein's death. In
a letter released this month, Wyden said financial institutions must
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show the public they are not shielding the powerful and
connected from accountability. He called on the Treasury Department to
release all Epstein related financial records still under seal. Well,
that's a good idea. Release it all, follow the money.
And if you do that, well you're gonna find the
real villain. And like I've been telling you four years now,
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the real villain here isn't the boogeyman under your bed.
It's not your neighbor. No, it's these people that we're
talking about right now, the people that knew what Jeffrey
Epstein was and continue to do business with them anyway.
And you know what the saddest part is, these Bank
of America, Bank of New York Melon, They're gonna walk
away from all of this without so much as a scratch,
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few headlines, a couple of settlements, maybe some retraining sessions
on ethics led by the same people who greenlit Epstein's
wire transfers, and then it's right back to business. They'll
keep cashing in on the next scumbag who strolls through
the door wearing a Rolex and wreaking a scandal, because
as long as the money's green, nobody cares where it
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comes from. That's the golden rule of finance. Morality is negotiable,
but interest rates aren't. And the rest of us we're
supposed to just sit here and pretend that it's all normal,
Pretend that billion dollar institutions didn't know. Pretend the same
people who will flag your debit card for buying a
sandwich out of state somehow missed Epstein moving millions from
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Michelle company named after his pat iguana. Yeah, okay, these
people don't just insult your intelligence, They mug it in
broad daylight. But that's the game, isn't it. They run
the world, they write the rules, and when they get caught,
they buy the judge, rewrite the script and call it
a misunderstanding. They talk about accountability the same way an
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arsonist talks about fire safety, and we all know how
it ends. No arrests, no handcuffs, no real consequences, just
another press release about moving forward. Meanwhile, the rest of
us get lectured about financial responsibility by the same crooks
who turned a predator into a preferred client. So, yeah,
forgive me if I'm not buying the whole We had
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no idea routine. Epstein might be gone, but the machine
that made him possible still humming, still counting, still cashing in,
and the banks they're right there, polishing the gears and
smiling for the cameras. The only difference now is there
a little quieter about it, like vampires after dawn, waiting
for the next fool to invite them back in. All
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