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Enabling
Epstein JPM
Chase Is Sued
Now USVI Moves
to Strike Its
Equitable
Defenses
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 8 –
J.P. Morgan
Chase and
Deutsche Bank
were sued for
their enabling
of Jeffrey
Epstein, in
lawsuits filed
on
Thanksgiving
in the U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York,
where Inner
City Press
found them in
the docket.
The separate
lawsuits
allege that
"without
exorbitantly
large amounts
of cash,
Epstein's
operations
could not run,
as newly
recruited
victims were
each paid
hundreds of
dollars in
cash
immediately
after Epstein
sexually
abused them,
as hush
money."
The
JPM Chase
complaint is
on Patreon, here.
On March
20, 2023 Judge
Jed S.
Rakoff in a
bottom line
order
dismissed some
but not
all claims,
in the Epstein-related
cases against
JPMC and Deutsche
Bank.
Inner
City Press put
the order on
its
DocumentCloud
here.
On
April 28, a
motion seeking
class certification
of
Epstein-related
claims against
JPMC was
filed; filing
on Patreon here.
On May 8, the
US Virgin
Islands filed
with Judge
Rakoff to
strike JPM
Chase's equitable
defenses,
including tis
"fault-shifting"
defense, arguing
that "it is well
established within
the Second
Circuit and
elsewhere that
government
plaintiffs suing to
vindicate
public rights
are not subject to equitable
defenses that
may be invoked
against
private plaintiffs."
Full filing on
Patreon here.
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