Jamie Dimon, chairman and chief government officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., right, at the US Capitol adhering to a meeting with Senate Vast majority Leader Chuck Schumer in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Could 17, 2023.
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Legal professionals for a Jeffrey Epstein victim requested a federal judge on Friday to enable them to take new testimony from JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and other executives as part of their lawsuit in opposition to the lender above its dealings with the sexual intercourse predator.
The legal professionals, who deposed Dimon for the fit previous month, alleged in a Manhattan District Court docket filing that JPMorgan unsuccessful to instantly transform above paperwork to them as part of the circumstance, as essential by the decide.
That prevented the accuser’s lawyers from asking issues about these documents at the time Dimon and other essential witnesses have been deposed, in accordance to the submitting.
A single such doc, turned over right after Dimon’s deposition was taken on Might 26, “appears to refer to a 2019 inner evaluate of [redacted] electronic communications with Jeffrey Epstein, executed right after Epstein’s 2019 arrest and loss of life,” in accordance to the filing.
The accuser, who is suing below the pseudonym Jane Doe, in her accommodate promises that JPMorgan facilitated and economically benefited from Epstein’s sex trafficking of her and other youthful women for years when he was a purchaser of the financial institution. The govt of the U.S. Virgin Islands alleges the similar claim in a individual lawsuit pending in the identical courthouse.
In the submitting Friday, the accuser’s lawyer Sigrid McCawley wrote Choose Jed Rakoff and observed that the decide in Might had admonished JPMorgan for turning around documents to the plaintiff’s authorized staff “at an inexplicably slow amount.”
“Regardless of the Court’s apparent warning, JPMC however unsuccessful to expeditiously deliver documents from the custodial files of important witnesses, some of whom had presently been deposed, for strategic reasons,” wrote McCawley.
“For illustration, the weekend prior to the shut of fact discovery, and quickly just after the May possibly 26 deposition of its CEO Jamie Dimon, JPMC manufactured 1,500 documents, some of which came from the custodial files of witnesses whose depositions had lengthy passed,” McCawley wrote.
“This pattern of producing files from the custodial documents of witnesses following their depositions has persisted in the course of the discovery interval.”
CNBC has requested comment on the filing from JPMorgan.
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