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Enabling
Epstein JPMC
Deal Opposed
By State AGs
Who Chase
Claims Have No
Standing
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 6 –
J.P. Morgan
Chase and
Deutsche Bank
were sued for
their enabling
of Jeffrey
Epstein, in
lawsuits filed
on
Thanksgiving
2022 in the
U.S. District
Court for the
Southern
District of
New York,
where Inner
City Press
found them in
the docket.
Late on May
17, 2023,
plaintiffs' lawyer
David Boies
selectively
announced a $75
million
settlement
with Deutsche
Bank.
Nothing
was filed in
the docket until
May 18:
"Minute Entry
for
proceedings
held before
Judge Jed S.
Rakoff:
Telephone
Conference
held on
5/17/2023,without
transcription
or recording.
Plaintiffs
motion for
preliminary
approval of
proposed class
settlement is
due by
5/26/2023. A
preliminary
fairness
hearing will
be held at
4:00 PM on
6/1/2023 in
Courtroom 14B,
the Daniel
Patrick
Moynihan U.S.
Courthouse,
500 Pearl St.,
New York, NY."
In fact
the fairness
hearing was
held on
October 20,
2023. Inner
City Press
went. It was
approved.
But for
JPM Chase, on
November
2 this
opposition:
"ORDER: Sarah
Ransome, a
putative
member of the
class
preliminarily
certified in
the
above-captioned
case, has
submitted an
application
requesting
permission to
appear
virtually at
the final
class action
settlement
fairness
hearings
scheduled in
this matter
for November
9, 2023 at
4:00 PM to
orally express
her objections
to the
settlement.
See Dkt. 247,
at 3 &
n.2. That
application is
hereby
granted. full
order on
Patreon here
(Signed by
Judge Jed S.
Rakoff on
11/2/2023)."
On
November 6, as
the state
Attorneys
General's
objections,
Chase wrote in
that they have
no standing.
More
including
class analysis
on Substack here
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.
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