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• A new lawsuit alleges JP Morgan facilitated Jeffrey Epstein's sex-trafficking scheme.
  
  
• The US Virgin Islands Attorney General also claims the bank covered up its involvement.
  
  
• "Red flag" laws were ignored until after Epstein's death, the lawsuit says.
  

A new lawsuit from the US Virgin Islands Attorney General Denise George accuses JP Morgan Chase of facilitating Jeffrey Epstein's sex-trafficking scheme and covering it up.

"Human trafficking," the lawsuit alleges, was the "principal business" of Epstein's accounts at the bank, but the bank "turned a blind eye" for more than a decade "because of the deals and clients that Epstein brought and promised to bring to the bank."
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"JP Morgan knowingly, negligently, and unlawfully provided and pulled the levers through which recruiters and victims were paid and was indispensable to the operation and concealment of the Epstein trafficking enterprise," the lawsuit says.

One of Epstein's accounts with JP Morgan, named Southern Trust, didn't perform the "cutting edge consulting services" Epstein claimed. In reality, the lawsuit alleges, it was "a conduit for payment to foreign women, credit cards, airplanes, and other instrumentalities."

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Quote:Attorney General Denise George Removed from Post | St. Thomas Source

Government House has confirmed that Attorney General Denise George has been “relieved of her duties” but in a short statement Sunday night declined to say why.

“I relieved Denise George of her duties as attorney general this weekend,” Gov. Albert Bryan Jr. said. “I thank her for her service to the people of the territory during the past four years as attorney general and wish her the best in her future endeavors. Assistant Attorney General Carol Thomas-Jacobs will serve as acting attorney general.”

The termination comes less than a week after George filed suit against JPMorgan Chase Bank in Manhattan federal court, alleging the company facilitated Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking scheme in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

A month prior, the V.I. government settled a civil suit also filed by George against the Epstein estate for $105 million — believed to be the largest monetary settlement in the history of the territory.

Epstein companies and non-profit organizations that had accounts with JPMorgan included the 2013 Butterfly Trust; Coatue Enterprises LLC; the C.O.U.Q. Foundation; Enhanced Education; Financial Trust Company, Inc.; HBRK Associates, Inc.; Hyperion Air, Inc; JEGE, Inc.; JEGE, LLC; NES, LLC; Plan D, LLC; Southern Financial, LLC; and Southern Trust Company, according to the suit.

The Southern Trust Company was central to the V.I. government’s suit against the Epstein estate, which settled the matter while not admitting any wrongdoing.
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For several years, she practiced general civil litigation and family law in her private law firm, “Law Offices of Denise George-Counts.”

George served as an assistant attorney general and trial attorney in the criminal, civil, family, juvenile, white collar and public corruption divisions of the Justice Department for more than 18 years. In 2016, she accepted a position as senior staff attorney at the V.I. Port Authority, a position she held until her nomination as Attorney General in 2019.

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"Ultima Genomics' architecture will revolutionize sequencing and take what we can do to a whole new level," said Michael Snyder, Director of the Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine at Stanford University. "The ability to sequence many thousands of genomes and epigenomes will transform diagnostics and disease risk prediction."

Quote:MR. EPSTEIN: Places, frankly, like St. Thomas are the perfect place to sequence people because it's so isolated. You are able to get much better data than ever before. And it also ends up--and that's one of the advantages of being here as opposed to New York.

THE CHAIR: But when I think of genetic sequencing-and I know we are getting way out on a limb.

MR. EPSTEIN: No, ask

THE CHAIR: I mean I would think that you would have to have some DNA sampling of these people going back for 50 years and 50 years ago we didn't have that type of technology. So how do you--I mean people have died. How do you trace that? How do you do sequencing of somebody who is no longer here?

MR. EPSTEIN: In Iceland they've kept the sequencing. They started taking blood. So they have kept blood samples from everyone. That was very forward thinking. So they were simply able to get the sequence out of the blood.

THE CHAIR: Got you. That was confusing.

MR. EPSTEIN: Yes, it's 50 years of data. It's the only country. It doesn't make them any healthier at the moment but they have tremendous amounts of data but almost no information.

THE CHAIR: Wow!

MR. EPSTEIN: Because now they have 300,000 people and all their ancestors. Now what do we do with it?

Quote:THE CHAIR: what you are suggesting is in 10 years we may be able to have a-- your same product that would be able to take a genetic code of how somebody is, figure out what is the best way for them to learn and put it on the Internet for them?

MR. EPSTEIN: I don't want to say--that's pushing it but yes. It's the Frankenstein version but it's true, yes.