November 26, 2025 • 16 mins
Jeffrey Epstein tried to manipulate the laws governing sex-offender oversight and age-of-consent enforcement in the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) — in a way that would benefit him personally. According to court filings and public reporting, a powerful figure in the territory’s government, Cecile de Jongh (then-First Lady of the USVI), allegedly approached Epstein for his approval on draft legislation intended to govern sex-offenders. She purportedly sent him a version of a proposed bill and asked: “Will it work for you?” Epstein then made edits favorable to his freedom of movement and privacy — for example limiting how the law would track or publicize who he stayed with, and how long he was abroad. That proposed legislation never became law; but the attempt itself shows how Epstein used political influence inside the USVI to try to reshape laws in his favor.
The broader allegation is that this legal tampering was part of a quid-pro-quo relationship between Epstein and high-ranking officials in the territory, who reportedly accepted his money, tax-breaks, and other favors while looking the other way as Epstein ferried in under-age girls to his private island, Little Saint James. Through that influence over legislation and local governance, Epstein allegedly sought to water down oversight and monitoring — effectively giving him greater freedom to move girls in and out of the territory without drawing attention. This manipulation of the law helped create a permissive environment for his broader sex-trafficking and abuse network in the USVI.
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The broader allegation is that this legal tampering was part of a quid-pro-quo relationship between Epstein and high-ranking officials in the territory, who reportedly accepted his money, tax-breaks, and other favors while looking the other way as Epstein ferried in under-age girls to his private island, Little Saint James. Through that influence over legislation and local governance, Epstein allegedly sought to water down oversight and monitoring — effectively giving him greater freedom to move girls in and out of the territory without drawing attention. This manipulation of the law helped create a permissive environment for his broader sex-trafficking and abuse network in the USVI.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ye, what's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
The lawsuit between the US Virgin Islands and JP Morgan
has evolved into an absolute backyard brawl, with both sides
lobbing salvo after salvo at the other side, hoping to
damage the credibility of their opponent in this high stakes lawsuit.
(00:23):
And if the US Virgin Islands thought that JP Morgan
wasn't going to fight back, they made a critical mistake
because JP Morgan is not going to write a check
to the US Virgin Islands without at the very least
exacting their price in blood, if you will, meaning they're
going to expose everything that they say the Virgin Islands
(00:44):
was involved in in hopes to destroy their credibility inside
of that courtroom. And that's what it comes down to.
JP Morgan understands that they're already on the hook for
two hundred and ninety million dollars. You really think they
want to have another payout here? Of course not. So
they're looking at all of the facts, and their high
profile lawyers are certainly looking at all of the facts.
(01:06):
And if we can find this information, do you really
think that the JP Morgan legal teams can't come up
with it. Not only have they turned up this information,
I'm guessing that they've turned up a whole bunch more.
And it looks to me that JP Morgan plans to
release each one of these dumps in a calculated strike.
(01:27):
Today we have an article from lawn crime dot com
and the headline will it work for you? Ex? Virgin
Islands first lady allegedly ran suggested language for sex offender
law by Jeffrey Epstein. This article was authored by Adam Klasfeld.
So that's nice, Huh. You're in charge of writing the
(01:48):
sex offender's law for the US Virgin Islands, and before
you write the law, you're like self, you know what
I need to do. I need to get in contact
with Jeffrey Epstein and see what he has to say
about the lang which in this law. How could you
not sue the US Virgin Islands knowing all of this,
if I was a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein, I would
(02:09):
be out a lawyer yesterday trying to get a lawsuit
going against the US Virgin Islands using the same principles
and basics that were used against JP Morgan, especially learning
stuff like this. If you have somebody who is the
first Lady of the US Virgin Islands and she's also
working for Epstein and then at the very same time
(02:31):
manipulating language in the sex offender's law, you mean to
tell me that somebody shouldn't be held culpable for that,
because that law itself, right there is a big deal.
Right if you're writing a favorable law for sex offenders,
how can you tell me that you're a victim meaning
the island when it comes to somebody like Epstein setting
up shop in a place that's favorable to them. You
(02:54):
set the tone, you set the scenario, You set the stage,
and Epstein just swooped in. So before you start coming
with your hand out talking about your ode anything else.
The whole entire US Virgin Islands leadership structure, and anyone
thinking that they should get some money should sit down
and reevaluate their strategy, because I think the gravy train
(03:16):
is about to come off the tracks. Three years after
pleading guilty to soliciting prostitution of a minor, Jeffrey Epstein
had the ear of the wife of the then Virgin
Islands governor in attempting to craft sex offender legislation that
wouldn't put too much of a crimp in his lifestyle.
Another reason why he chose New Mexico as well. Remember
(03:37):
everything that Epstein did, he was thinking a few steps ahead,
especially when we're talking about the legal system, and he
had all of this set up in a manner where
it was beneficial to him if he ever got caught
greased the right palms now, so later on down the
road they owe me a favor. That's one of the
latest scorching allegations in a legal brief filed by JP
(03:58):
Morgan Chase, which is trying to turn the tables on
the Virgin Islands government. And I am here for it.
It is about time that the US Virgin Islands government
was called out. I feel like I'm the only person
that's been doing this for a few years now. And look,
it's not because I have a bone to pick with
the US Virgin Islands in general, but wrong is wrong,
(04:20):
and until you start holding some people accountable in your
own backyard, I don't want to hear about how you're
a victim or how restitution needs to be paid to
the US Virgin Islands. In fact, I think it's the
other way around. If anyone's getting restitution, it should be
those survivors from the US Virgin Islands. Since late last year,
the Virgin Islands has tried to hold the behemoth financial
(04:43):
institution liable for knowingly profiting from Epstein sex trafficking conspiracy.
JP Morgan's most potent defense against the allegations has been
a counter offensive, the latest of which reveals alleged communications
between Epstein and former Jean Islands First Lady Cecil DeJong
from twenty and eleven. Look, they were close. There's no doubt.
(05:06):
This is all documented stuff that we've been talking about
four years now. The only question is what is inside
of those documents. We've never had access to the emails.
We knew they existed, and we knew that the conversations
were had. This just confirms it with some receipts. And
that's because JP Morgan, like the article says here, is
(05:27):
on accounter offensive and the US Virgin Islands, for their part,
are used to steamrolling people when it comes to the
Epstein situation, especially with the way they were handling the estate. Well.
JP Morgan is in Epstein's estate and the legal team
that JP Morgan has on hand is a lot more
powerful than anything the Epstein Estate could ever imagine of deploying.
(05:51):
And that's why you see this insane amount of pushback
from JP Morgan, Whereas the estate they just took it
in the pants and said, you know what, let's settle
and keep it moving. They knew they were going to
pay that money out one way or the other, and
the estate didn't care if they paid the US Virgin
Islands or those survivors, as long as they were off
the hook. That may. The Virgin Islands legislature considered amending
(06:13):
sex offender monitoring laws, and the Bank quoted DeJong running
the proposed language by Epstein. This is the suggested language.
Will it work for you? DeJong wrote, According to the brief,
we should add out of the country for more than
seven days. Otherwise I could not go for a day
trip to Tortola. At the last minute, the sex offender
(06:34):
allegedly replied, referring to the largest isle on the British
Virgin Islands. Imagine that's what he's worried about. I can't
go to Tortola after decades of raping and ruining people's lives.
This is what is paled down in the US Virgin
Islands and him or chatting about and we're not talking
about just some lady. We're talking about somebody who was
at the very levers of power. And this person thinks
(06:56):
it's a good idea to ask a convicted sex offender
what they think about the new sex offender law or
the language within that law. Epstein also fretted the statute's
transparency provisions could make certain information accessible by the press.
According to the filing, well, no worries there. The press
wasn't interested in covering what Epstein was doing at the time.
(07:17):
Althy'll go back now and there'll be some revisionist history
and these outlets act like they've been at the forefront.
But I'm here to tell you they haven't been. De
Jong allegedly responded that she didn't want to email back
and forth before describing the hurried timetable for the legislation.
And you know why she didn't want to email, right,
she didn't want a paper trail. Of course, she didn't
(07:37):
want to email back and forth. She's smart enough to
know that the person she's talking to is not exactly
the citizen of the year. JP Morgan claims that the
then Virgin Island's first Lady wasn't just an ally of Epstein,
but a paid manager of his Virgin Island companies, receiving
a salary, bonuses and other benefits. Epstein and his then
(07:59):
personal attorney, Maria Hodge also lobbied the Virgin Islands Department
of Justice and the Attorney General's Office, with apparently disappointing
results for the wealthy sex offender. According to the filing,
So even though Epstein had a lot of people working
on his behalf down in the US Virgin Islands, not
everybody was in on it. Not every politician was willing
(08:21):
to just give this guy a blank pass to do
whatever he wanted. But unfortunately there were enough down there
who were willing to do that, and that in turn
led to Jeffrey Epstein being able to pretty much do
whatever he wanted within the territory. I know this was
a horrible week and I'm really sorry about how things
panned out, DeJong apologized to Epstein after the law's passage
(08:45):
in June of twenty eleven. Not being able to take
someone at their word is incredibly frustrating. However, all is
not lost and we will figure something out by coming
up with a game plan to get around these obstacles.
So she's basically saying, we're gonna come up with a
game plan to get around these new sex offender laws
here on the island. That way they don't apply to you.
(09:07):
And keep in mind while we're talking about this, that
this island that these people represented ended up with one
hundred and five million dollars after this woman was here
talking about we're gonna come up with a plan to
avoid the sex offender laws. You really think that the
US Virgin Islands should get one single dollar? And if
the answer is yes to that, please shoot me some
(09:27):
email and explain to me why they shouldn't be liable
and instead why they should be collecting another bag. That plan,
JP Morgan says involve getting then Virgin Island senators involved
to facilitate Epstein's easy travel too and from the territory. Huh, Senators.
I wonder Stacy Plas get involved in that. Is anyone
(09:49):
ever gonna call her out either? I doubt it, but
somebody should considering her ties to Epstein and then the
BS response we got from her, I would love to
see JP Morgan really push the envelope here and take
them to court all the way to discovery and then
call everybody in that way. Everybody has to go under oath,
and if people are lying, perhaps there'll be some consequences.
(10:12):
JP Morgan has fought tenaciously to rid itself of liabilities
and the torrent of bad press that came with it
associated with Epstein's name. The bank reached a two hundred
and ninety million dollars settlement to resolve a class action
lawsuit filed anonymously by an Epstein survivor, averting a potentially
embarrassing trial that would have put the alleged conduct of
(10:34):
JP Morgan executives under the public layer. Attorney Brad Edwards,
known for his representation of Epstein's survivors, credited assistance from
the Virgin Islands government for helping to reach that deal. Okay,
that's fine and well, but I still don't trust them
and I don't understand how Brad Edwards doesn't see the
forest through the trees here. You would think that a
(10:55):
lawyer would be all over this, right, let me get
another bag, let me secure more. Do The information and
support the US Virgin Islands and its legal team provided
to the survivors was enormously valuable, and we recognize the
importance of the government's continued litigation against JP Morgan Chase
to prevent future crimes. Edward said in a statement, Yeah,
(11:18):
that doesn't hit too well for me. In fact, I
find that statement a bit ridiculous. Honestly, there's no way
that anyone's going to stop doing what they're doing because
they have to pay a fine. How about sending some
people to jail. How about holding these politicians accountable for
the decision they made to get into bed with a
slimy ass snake like Jeffrey Epstein. Instead, it seems like
(11:39):
people are just willing to let them get off. Well,
I'm here to tell you that's never gonna happen on
this podcast. I'm never gonna sit here and tell you
that the US Virgin Islands has the right of it,
because they do not. What they're doing here is absolutely
wrong and disgusting. Now, look, I'm all for going after
the bank and holding them liable, but the fact that
(12:00):
they're trying to do it for financial benefit and financial
benefit alone is really gross, especially considering what they were
up to themselves, And for me, that seals the deal
as them being liable and as a institution, if you will,
that played a crucial role in Jeffrey Epstein's criminal enterprise,
(12:20):
keeping it moving for decades. The Virgin Islands Attorney General's Office,
for its part, has held firm and has announced no
intention to settle its case before a trial in October.
The government has described the bank's hyperbolic conspiracy theories about
the Virgin Islands as an effort to distract and deflect,
(12:41):
asking Senior US District Judge Jed Rakoff to strike the
intimations of hypocrisy as an affirmative defense. Venetia Velasquez, a
spokesperson for the Virgin Islands AG, sounded a similar note
in a statement. JP Morgan Chase has cherry picked and
miscaracter terized Epstein's interactions with US Virgin Island officials and
(13:04):
residents in an attempt to distract and shift blame away
from its role in facilitating Jeffrey Epstein's Hanus crimes. Velasquez said,
and while there's truth to that, that doesn't do away
with the fact that what they're saying is true. How
many times do we have to go back in the
time machine and pull up an article from twenty twenty
or twenty nineteen talking about the complicity of the US
(13:27):
Virgin Islands with Jeffrey Epstein. JP Morgan Chase seeks to
attack the people of the Virgin Islands for not discovering
the very information that bank executives refuse to share. Nobody's
attacking the people of the US Virgin Islands. The elected officials,
don't try and conflate the issue. JP Morgan Chase had
(13:48):
a legal responsibility to report the evidence in its possession
of Epstein's human trafficking. It failed to do so, and
it should be held accountable for violating the law. Correct
me if I'm wrong, But does in the US Virgin
Islands have subpoena power? Don't they have the power to
enter or not enter into any deal with anybody they
choose to. Well, what's the answer for their behavior? Then?
(14:12):
If JP Morgan could have stopped Jeffrey Epstein and they
could have, well what does that say about the US
Virgin Islands who had the power of the law and
the United States government on their side and they fail
to act. So save the what about ism and get
ready to feel the pain. JP Morgan insists that its
arguments are legitimate telling. The usvii's motion seeks to strike
(14:34):
only those specific defenses that threaten to expose its relationship
with Epstein. The Bank's attorney, Felicia Ellsworth noted in her brief,
the former governor's first lady is hardly the only Virgin
Islands official identified in JP Morgan's brief. The bank is
also alleged that Epstein had close ties with current Governor
(14:55):
Albert Bryan, who fired ex Virgin Island's Attorney General Denise George,
prosecutor who first filed the case against JP Morgan former
sex trafficking prosecutor Mitchell Epner suspects that if a federal
judge finds JP Morgan's claims about the Virgin Islands fair
game for trial, the Bank will use the information to
(15:16):
draw the government to the negotiation table. It's a standard
in litigation to use the process to disincentivize the opponent
to continue, said Epner, who's now a partner at Rottenberg
Littmann Rich PC. If unsuccessful in that effort, the trial
will begin on October twenty third, twenty twenty three. And
I think the wildcard here is going to be if
(15:38):
one of the survivors or several of the survivors decide
that they want to get involved and sue the US
Virgin Islands on top of it, because I think that's
certainly a possibility, especially considering we haven't heard from anywhere
near all of the survivors yet, so I won't be
shocked if moving on in the future, we hear that
the survivors or a survivor has sued the US Virgin
(16:01):
Islands as well, And if that happens, the US Virgin
Islands has nobody to blame but themselves. They should have
took their hundred and five million and kept it moving,
but no, they needed more, and now that greed threatens
to expose them for what J. P. Morgan's asserting is
their role in Jeffrey Epstein's criminal enterprise. All right, folks,
(16:22):
that's gonna do it for this one. All of the
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Ye, what's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
The lawsuit between the US Virgin Islands and JP Morgan
has evolved into an absolute backyard brawl, with both sides
lobbing salvo after salvo at the other side, hoping to
damage the credibility of their opponent in this high stakes lawsuit.
(00:23):
And if the US Virgin Islands thought that JP Morgan
wasn't going to fight back, they made a critical mistake
because JP Morgan is not going to write a check
to the US Virgin Islands without at the very least
exacting their price in blood, if you will, meaning they're
going to expose everything that they say the Virgin Islands
(00:44):
was involved in in hopes to destroy their credibility inside
of that courtroom. And that's what it comes down to.
JP Morgan understands that they're already on the hook for
two hundred and ninety million dollars. You really think they
want to have another payout here? Of course not. So
they're looking at all of the facts, and their high
profile lawyers are certainly looking at all of the facts.
(01:06):
And if we can find this information, do you really
think that the JP Morgan legal teams can't come up
with it. Not only have they turned up this information,
I'm guessing that they've turned up a whole bunch more.
And it looks to me that JP Morgan plans to
release each one of these dumps in a calculated strike.
(01:27):
Today we have an article from lawn crime dot com
and the headline will it work for you? Ex? Virgin
Islands first lady allegedly ran suggested language for sex offender
law by Jeffrey Epstein. This article was authored by Adam Klasfeld.
So that's nice, Huh. You're in charge of writing the
(01:48):
sex offender's law for the US Virgin Islands, and before
you write the law, you're like self, you know what
I need to do. I need to get in contact
with Jeffrey Epstein and see what he has to say
about the lang which in this law. How could you
not sue the US Virgin Islands knowing all of this,
if I was a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein, I would
(02:09):
be out a lawyer yesterday trying to get a lawsuit
going against the US Virgin Islands using the same principles
and basics that were used against JP Morgan, especially learning
stuff like this. If you have somebody who is the
first Lady of the US Virgin Islands and she's also
working for Epstein and then at the very same time
(02:31):
manipulating language in the sex offender's law, you mean to
tell me that somebody shouldn't be held culpable for that,
because that law itself, right there is a big deal.
Right if you're writing a favorable law for sex offenders,
how can you tell me that you're a victim meaning
the island when it comes to somebody like Epstein setting
up shop in a place that's favorable to them. You
(02:54):
set the tone, you set the scenario, You set the stage,
and Epstein just swooped in. So before you start coming
with your hand out talking about your ode anything else.
The whole entire US Virgin Islands leadership structure, and anyone
thinking that they should get some money should sit down
and reevaluate their strategy, because I think the gravy train
(03:16):
is about to come off the tracks. Three years after
pleading guilty to soliciting prostitution of a minor, Jeffrey Epstein
had the ear of the wife of the then Virgin
Islands governor in attempting to craft sex offender legislation that
wouldn't put too much of a crimp in his lifestyle.
Another reason why he chose New Mexico as well. Remember
(03:37):
everything that Epstein did, he was thinking a few steps ahead,
especially when we're talking about the legal system, and he
had all of this set up in a manner where
it was beneficial to him if he ever got caught
greased the right palms now, so later on down the
road they owe me a favor. That's one of the
latest scorching allegations in a legal brief filed by JP
(03:58):
Morgan Chase, which is trying to turn the tables on
the Virgin Islands government. And I am here for it.
It is about time that the US Virgin Islands government
was called out. I feel like I'm the only person
that's been doing this for a few years now. And look,
it's not because I have a bone to pick with
the US Virgin Islands in general, but wrong is wrong,
(04:20):
and until you start holding some people accountable in your
own backyard, I don't want to hear about how you're
a victim or how restitution needs to be paid to
the US Virgin Islands. In fact, I think it's the
other way around. If anyone's getting restitution, it should be
those survivors from the US Virgin Islands. Since late last year,
the Virgin Islands has tried to hold the behemoth financial
(04:43):
institution liable for knowingly profiting from Epstein sex trafficking conspiracy.
JP Morgan's most potent defense against the allegations has been
a counter offensive, the latest of which reveals alleged communications
between Epstein and former Jean Islands First Lady Cecil DeJong
from twenty and eleven. Look, they were close. There's no doubt.
(05:06):
This is all documented stuff that we've been talking about
four years now. The only question is what is inside
of those documents. We've never had access to the emails.
We knew they existed, and we knew that the conversations
were had. This just confirms it with some receipts. And
that's because JP Morgan, like the article says here, is
(05:27):
on accounter offensive and the US Virgin Islands, for their part,
are used to steamrolling people when it comes to the
Epstein situation, especially with the way they were handling the estate. Well.
JP Morgan is in Epstein's estate and the legal team
that JP Morgan has on hand is a lot more
powerful than anything the Epstein Estate could ever imagine of deploying.
(05:51):
And that's why you see this insane amount of pushback
from JP Morgan, Whereas the estate they just took it
in the pants and said, you know what, let's settle
and keep it moving. They knew they were going to
pay that money out one way or the other, and
the estate didn't care if they paid the US Virgin
Islands or those survivors, as long as they were off
the hook. That may. The Virgin Islands legislature considered amending
(06:13):
sex offender monitoring laws, and the Bank quoted DeJong running
the proposed language by Epstein. This is the suggested language.
Will it work for you? DeJong wrote, According to the brief,
we should add out of the country for more than
seven days. Otherwise I could not go for a day
trip to Tortola. At the last minute, the sex offender
(06:34):
allegedly replied, referring to the largest isle on the British
Virgin Islands. Imagine that's what he's worried about. I can't
go to Tortola after decades of raping and ruining people's lives.
This is what is paled down in the US Virgin
Islands and him or chatting about and we're not talking
about just some lady. We're talking about somebody who was
at the very levers of power. And this person thinks
(06:56):
it's a good idea to ask a convicted sex offender
what they think about the new sex offender law or
the language within that law. Epstein also fretted the statute's
transparency provisions could make certain information accessible by the press.
According to the filing, well, no worries there. The press
wasn't interested in covering what Epstein was doing at the time.
(07:17):
Althy'll go back now and there'll be some revisionist history
and these outlets act like they've been at the forefront.
But I'm here to tell you they haven't been. De
Jong allegedly responded that she didn't want to email back
and forth before describing the hurried timetable for the legislation.
And you know why she didn't want to email, right,
she didn't want a paper trail. Of course, she didn't
(07:37):
want to email back and forth. She's smart enough to
know that the person she's talking to is not exactly
the citizen of the year. JP Morgan claims that the
then Virgin Island's first Lady wasn't just an ally of Epstein,
but a paid manager of his Virgin Island companies, receiving
a salary, bonuses and other benefits. Epstein and his then
(07:59):
personal attorney, Maria Hodge also lobbied the Virgin Islands Department
of Justice and the Attorney General's Office, with apparently disappointing
results for the wealthy sex offender. According to the filing,
So even though Epstein had a lot of people working
on his behalf down in the US Virgin Islands, not
everybody was in on it. Not every politician was willing
(08:21):
to just give this guy a blank pass to do
whatever he wanted. But unfortunately there were enough down there
who were willing to do that, and that in turn
led to Jeffrey Epstein being able to pretty much do
whatever he wanted within the territory. I know this was
a horrible week and I'm really sorry about how things
panned out, DeJong apologized to Epstein after the law's passage
(08:45):
in June of twenty eleven. Not being able to take
someone at their word is incredibly frustrating. However, all is
not lost and we will figure something out by coming
up with a game plan to get around these obstacles.
So she's basically saying, we're gonna come up with a
game plan to get around these new sex offender laws
here on the island. That way they don't apply to you.
(09:07):
And keep in mind while we're talking about this, that
this island that these people represented ended up with one
hundred and five million dollars after this woman was here
talking about we're gonna come up with a plan to
avoid the sex offender laws. You really think that the
US Virgin Islands should get one single dollar? And if
the answer is yes to that, please shoot me some
(09:27):
email and explain to me why they shouldn't be liable
and instead why they should be collecting another bag. That plan,
JP Morgan says involve getting then Virgin Island senators involved
to facilitate Epstein's easy travel too and from the territory. Huh, Senators.
I wonder Stacy Plas get involved in that. Is anyone
(09:49):
ever gonna call her out either? I doubt it, but
somebody should considering her ties to Epstein and then the
BS response we got from her, I would love to
see JP Morgan really push the envelope here and take
them to court all the way to discovery and then
call everybody in that way. Everybody has to go under oath,
and if people are lying, perhaps there'll be some consequences.
(10:12):
JP Morgan has fought tenaciously to rid itself of liabilities
and the torrent of bad press that came with it
associated with Epstein's name. The bank reached a two hundred
and ninety million dollars settlement to resolve a class action
lawsuit filed anonymously by an Epstein survivor, averting a potentially
embarrassing trial that would have put the alleged conduct of
(10:34):
JP Morgan executives under the public layer. Attorney Brad Edwards,
known for his representation of Epstein's survivors, credited assistance from
the Virgin Islands government for helping to reach that deal. Okay,
that's fine and well, but I still don't trust them
and I don't understand how Brad Edwards doesn't see the
forest through the trees here. You would think that a
(10:55):
lawyer would be all over this, right, let me get
another bag, let me secure more. Do The information and
support the US Virgin Islands and its legal team provided
to the survivors was enormously valuable, and we recognize the
importance of the government's continued litigation against JP Morgan Chase
to prevent future crimes. Edward said in a statement, Yeah,
(11:18):
that doesn't hit too well for me. In fact, I
find that statement a bit ridiculous. Honestly, there's no way
that anyone's going to stop doing what they're doing because
they have to pay a fine. How about sending some
people to jail. How about holding these politicians accountable for
the decision they made to get into bed with a
slimy ass snake like Jeffrey Epstein. Instead, it seems like
(11:39):
people are just willing to let them get off. Well,
I'm here to tell you that's never gonna happen on
this podcast. I'm never gonna sit here and tell you
that the US Virgin Islands has the right of it,
because they do not. What they're doing here is absolutely
wrong and disgusting. Now, look, I'm all for going after
the bank and holding them liable, but the fact that
(12:00):
they're trying to do it for financial benefit and financial
benefit alone is really gross, especially considering what they were
up to themselves, And for me, that seals the deal
as them being liable and as a institution, if you will,
that played a crucial role in Jeffrey Epstein's criminal enterprise,
(12:20):
keeping it moving for decades. The Virgin Islands Attorney General's Office,
for its part, has held firm and has announced no
intention to settle its case before a trial in October.
The government has described the bank's hyperbolic conspiracy theories about
the Virgin Islands as an effort to distract and deflect,
(12:41):
asking Senior US District Judge Jed Rakoff to strike the
intimations of hypocrisy as an affirmative defense. Venetia Velasquez, a
spokesperson for the Virgin Islands AG, sounded a similar note
in a statement. JP Morgan Chase has cherry picked and
miscaracter terized Epstein's interactions with US Virgin Island officials and
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residents in an attempt to distract and shift blame away
from its role in facilitating Jeffrey Epstein's Hanus crimes. Velasquez said,
and while there's truth to that, that doesn't do away
with the fact that what they're saying is true. How
many times do we have to go back in the
time machine and pull up an article from twenty twenty
or twenty nineteen talking about the complicity of the US
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Virgin Islands with Jeffrey Epstein. JP Morgan Chase seeks to
attack the people of the Virgin Islands for not discovering
the very information that bank executives refuse to share. Nobody's
attacking the people of the US Virgin Islands. The elected officials,
don't try and conflate the issue. JP Morgan Chase had
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a legal responsibility to report the evidence in its possession
of Epstein's human trafficking. It failed to do so, and
it should be held accountable for violating the law. Correct
me if I'm wrong, But does in the US Virgin
Islands have subpoena power? Don't they have the power to
enter or not enter into any deal with anybody they
choose to. Well, what's the answer for their behavior? Then?
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If JP Morgan could have stopped Jeffrey Epstein and they
could have, well what does that say about the US
Virgin Islands who had the power of the law and
the United States government on their side and they fail
to act. So save the what about ism and get
ready to feel the pain. JP Morgan insists that its
arguments are legitimate telling. The usvii's motion seeks to strike
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only those specific defenses that threaten to expose its relationship
with Epstein. The Bank's attorney, Felicia Ellsworth noted in her brief,
the former governor's first lady is hardly the only Virgin
Islands official identified in JP Morgan's brief. The bank is
also alleged that Epstein had close ties with current Governor
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Albert Bryan, who fired ex Virgin Island's Attorney General Denise George,
prosecutor who first filed the case against JP Morgan former
sex trafficking prosecutor Mitchell Epner suspects that if a federal
judge finds JP Morgan's claims about the Virgin Islands fair
game for trial, the Bank will use the information to
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draw the government to the negotiation table. It's a standard
in litigation to use the process to disincentivize the opponent
to continue, said Epner, who's now a partner at Rottenberg
Littmann Rich PC. If unsuccessful in that effort, the trial
will begin on October twenty third, twenty twenty three. And
I think the wildcard here is going to be if
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one of the survivors or several of the survivors decide
that they want to get involved and sue the US
Virgin Islands on top of it, because I think that's
certainly a possibility, especially considering we haven't heard from anywhere
near all of the survivors yet, so I won't be
shocked if moving on in the future, we hear that
the survivors or a survivor has sued the US Virgin
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Islands as well, And if that happens, the US Virgin
Islands has nobody to blame but themselves. They should have
took their hundred and five million and kept it moving,
but no, they needed more, and now that greed threatens
to expose them for what J. P. Morgan's asserting is
their role in Jeffrey Epstein's criminal enterprise. All right, folks,
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that's gonna do it for this one. All of the
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