Jamie Dimon, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., right, in the US Capitol after a meeting with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in Washington, DC, U.S., on Wednesday, May 17, 2023.
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Lawyers for a Jeffrey Epstein victim on Friday asked a federal judge to allow them to hear new testimony from JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and other executives as part of their lawsuit against the bank over its dealings with the sex offender.
The attorneys who removed Dimon from the lawsuit last month allege in a complaint in Manhattan District Court that JPMorgan failed to promptly provide them with documents related to the case, as requested by the judge.
That prevented prosecutor’s attorneys from asking questions about those documents at the time Dimon and other key witnesses were deposed, the filing says.
One such document, which Dimon said was handed over on May 26, “appears to relate to a 2019 internal review [redacted] electronic communications with Jeffrey Epstein conducted after Epstein’s arrest and death in 2019,” the filing said.
The accuser, who is suing under the pseudonym Jane Doe, alleges in her lawsuit that for years when JPMorgan was a client of the bank, JPMorgan facilitated and benefited financially from Epstein’s sex trafficking of her and other young women. The US Virgin Islands government is making the same claim in a separate lawsuit pending in the same court.
In the filing filed Friday, prosecutor’s attorney Sigrid McCawley wrote to Judge Jed Rakoff, noting that the judge in May admonished JPMorgan for turning documents over to the plaintiff’s legal department “at an inexplicably slow pace.”
“Despite the court’s clear warning, for strategic reasons, JPMC still failed to expeditiously produce documents from the arrest files of key witnesses, some of whom had already been deposed,” McCawley wrote.
“For example, over the weekend prior to the conclusion of the fact-finding process and immediately after its CEO Jamie Dimon testified on May 26, JPMC produced 1,500 documents, some of which were from the custody files of witnesses whose testimony was long past,” McCawley wrote.
“This pattern of documenting witnesses’ detention files based on their testimony continued throughout the discovery period.”
Joseph Evangelisti, a spokesman for JPMorgan, said in an email to CNBC: “Plaintiffs like the headlines, but even the record time will not change the fact that Jamie never met the man, never worked with the man and wishes to be there.” In hindsight, the man had never been a client of the law firm.
– Additional coverage from CNBC Eamon Javers
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