Top Wall Street banks helped Epstein move billions – report

Democrats have accused three banks of helping the notorious pedophile “hide in plain sight” Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, and Bank of America all helped Jeffrey Epstein make more than $1 billion in suspicious transfers, including payments to trafficked eastern European women, according to a report by Democrats on the US Senate Finance Committee.According to the report, more than a dozen bankers at the three Wall Street firms were aware of suspicious transfers made by Epstein as far back as 2002, but the banks failed to report these transactions until years later, after Epstein had been arrested and charged with sex trafficking.Epstein was a client of JPMorgan between 1998 and 2013, during which time he made 5,000 suspicious transfers totaling $1.1 billion, according to the report. Although JPMorgan dropped Epstein as a client in 2013, five years after his first child sex abuse conviction, the bank waited until after his arrest and death in prison in 2019 to retroactively flag these transactions with the US Treasury Department.The Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) filed by JPMorgan included payments to women in Russia, Belarus, and Turkmenistan, to women who had “been in a relatio...