The US Virgin Islands is demanding more documents from JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon in a lawsuit over the bank’s alleged decision to retain the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his associates as customers despite numerous red flags.
In a filing to a New York court on Thursday, the territory in which Epstein had a home asked a judge to compel JPMorgan “to provide discovery responses covering the full temporal scope of the [US Virgin Islands’] claims through 2019 and documents for custodian James Dimon”.
The territory, which first filed suit against JPMorgan in December, has accused the bank of “knowingly, recklessly, and unlawfully” providing the funds through which Epstein’s recruiters and victims were paid, and of enabling his sex trafficking schemes until at least August 2019.