Kathy Ruemmler, feeble White Condominium Counsel, appears to be like on “Meet the Press” in Washington, D.C., June 29, 2014.
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Sex predator Jeffrey Epstein used to be taking into account organising a shopper relationship between Obama White Condominium counsel Kathryn Ruemmler and JPMorgan High-tail in February 2019, four months sooner than he used to be arrested on federal little one intercourse trafficking charges, a bombshell courtroom filing published Tuesday.
Ruemmler, who is now total counsel for Goldman Sachs, used to be touted by Epstein’s deepest assistant to JPMorgan as an supreme buyer, the filing presentations.
The suggestion that JPMorgan clutch Ruemmler on as a shopper — which the bank warmly embraced — came nearly six years after JPMorgan talked about it had successfully fired Epstein as a shopper after inner controls incessantly raised red flags about him.
And it came five months sooner than Epstein killed himself in August 2019 in a New york federal jail, where he used to be being held with out bail pending trial.
Ruemmler declined to observation thru a Goldman Sachs spokesman.
CNBC individually emailed her to inquire of how she knew Epstein, and what information she had of his history of being convicted in 2008 of a intercourse crime in Florida.
The New york federal courtroom filing detailing her connection to Epstein used to be filed by the authorities of the U.S. Virgin Islands, which is suing JPMorgan.
The American territory alleges that JPMorgan enabled and benefited from Epstein’s intercourse trafficking of younger ladies to the Virgin Islands, where he had a home, all over time he maintained accounts on the bank, from 1998 thru 2013.
JPMorgan denies any wrongdoing within the case, where the territory is seeking no no longer as much as $190 million in damages.
The bank final month agreed to resolve a equivalent lawsuit within the equivalent courtroom by an Epstein accuser, paying $290 million to her and other Epstein victims.
The case is scheduled to head to trial in gradual October.
“Even after his exit appropriate up till his arrest in 2019, JPMorgan continued to work with Epstein,” the Virgin Islands talked about in its filing.
The filing says that JPMorgan admits “Epstein used to be taking into account the establishment of a buyer relationship with Kathryn Ruemmler,” who used to be the longest-serving White Condominium total counsel below feeble President Barack Obama
The filing says that in February 2019 Epstein’s assistant, Leslie Groff, equipped to introduce Mary Erdoes, a high JPMorgan executive, to Ruemmler, because she desired to birth an legend with JPMorgan and Epstein belief the two of them “would bond.”
“Erdoes escalated the referral to Stacey Friedman, JPMorgan’s Extra special Counsel, who responded ‘she is a rock superstar litigator at Latham. . . . I’d convey she would be a huge client,'” the Virgin Islands talked about in its filing.
Ruemmler on the time worked on the law firm Latham & Watkins.
In 2020 she joined Goldman Sachs as a partner, and now’s Goldman’s chief apt officer and total counsel.
The filing also talked about that Epstein at one time referred as a doable JPMorgan client Nicholas Ribis, a gaming consultant who for a few years ran casinos for feeble President Donald Trump.
Ribis did no longer straight acknowledge to requests for observation.
JPMorgan claims in courtroom filings that the Virgin Islands used to be itself “complicit within the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein,” arguing that he gave excessive-rating authorities officers money, advice and favors in alternate for having a detect the opposite route when he trafficked younger ladies.
JPMorgan also argues that its feeble executive Jes Staley, who used to be chums with Epstein when he used to be a shopper of the bank, is to blame for any civil liability of the bank consequently of its industry relationship with the intercourse perpetrator.
On Tuesday, newly unsealed courtroom filings by the bank demonstrate that Epstein used to be requested by feeble U.S. Virgin Islands Gov. John de Jongh Jr. for a loan of $215,000 after de Jongh used to be arrested on embezzlement charges that had been later pushed aside.
Epstein’s firm also paid de Jongh’s wife, Cecile, a $300,000 lump sum severance price after Epstein killed himself in a federal jail whereas observing for trial on little one intercourse trafficking charges in August 2019, JPMorgan’s paperwork yell. She had worked for Epstein at his Southern Have confidence Firm.
The paperwork also yell that one other Epstein employee who worked for him within the Virgin Islands used to be granted a U.S. Customs and Border Security security seal, which allowed that employee to “escort passengers thru” customs screening areas.
The bank in other courtroom filings has talked about that Epstein paid for the college tuitions of the childhood of the de Jonghs, and that Cecile had made efforts to produce student visas and a piece license for younger ladies connected to Epstein.
A spokesman for the Virgin Islands’ Attorney Extra special’s Office told CNBC that Epstein’s loan to feeble Gov. de Jongh occurred after he left assert of work in 2015. The charges against de Jongh had been dropped in early 2016 by the Virgin Islands Department of Justice after he agreed to a separate monetary settlement.
CNBC has reached out to observation from John de Jongh via an asset management firm where he’s a director.
The Virgin Islands spokesman also talked about that “it used to be the federal authorities and no longer the Virgin Islands authorities that granted the ‘U.S. Customs and Border Security security seal.’ “
The Virgin Islands has talked about that JPMorgan’s management kept Epstein as a shopper for years despite a few warnings about him being raised internally on the bank, which incorporated funds to younger ladies, and a 2008 intercourse crime conviction in Florida which resulted in a jail interval of time.
In its quiet courtroom filing on Tuesday, the Virgin Islands cited a July 2011 email between Epstein and Erdoes, after JPMorgan’s hasty response team determined that Epstein must always be off-boarded as a shopper, and after JPMorgan’s total counsel told Erdoes that Epstein used to be “no longer an individual we must always still raise out industry with — interval.”
Erdoes and Epstein emailed after he and the bank agreed to resolve his lawsuit against JPMorgan associated to money he talked about he used to be owed by Undergo Stearns, the funding bank taken over by JPMorgan.
“On July 26, 2011, Epstein wrote to Erdoes, ‘lets [sic] transfer on , [sic] and rep some valid money,’ ” the filing talked about.
“Erdoes responded, ‘Onwards and upwards, on so many fronts,’ ” the filing talked about.
Epstein used to be no longer severed as a JPMorgan client for one other two years.
The quiet Virgin Islands filing talked about that Staley, in his deposition for the lawsuit, disclosed the names of folk and companies that Epstein had referred to the bank as doable possibilities. An unsealed half of Staley’s deposition used to be made public Tuesday.
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Among the excessive-powered names listed within the courtroom filing are Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem of Dubai, feeble Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, feeble Treasury Department Secretary Larry Summers and tv journalist Katie Couric.
Staley, who had been head of the bank’s asset and wealth management division, testified that he met all these folk at Epstein’s townhouse on the Greater East Side of New york.
The deposition also presentations that Staley talked about he had spoken to JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon in 2006 when Epstein used to be arrested on Florida assert charges of procuring a minor for prostitution, and solicitation of a prostitute.
JPMorgan has denied that whisper. “Staley admits that in 2006 Jamie Dimon communicated with him referring to Epstein’s arrest,” the Virgin Islands talked about within the courtroom filing.
“Staley also testified that on or about July 26, 2006, he spoke to Dimon about Epstein’s indictment because Dimon used to be his boss and the indictment of Epstein, a shopper of the bank, ‘used to be an extraordinarily public match.'”
In other places within the deposition, Staley answered questions about going to detect Epstein after an editorial used to be printed in 2006 that talked about, “Jeffrey Epstein craved sizable homes, elite chums — and, investigators yell, underage ladies.”
The article also talked about that two of “Epstein’s feeble staff told investigators that younger having a detect ladies confirmed as much as rep massages two or three times a day when Epstein used to be in city.”
The Virgin Islands filing talked about, “On July 25, 2006, Staley met with Epstein in particular person at Epstein’s home. In that talk over with, Epstein admitted to the alleged “behavior of partaking in intercourse for money with younger ladies” — simplest denying the ‘ages.'”
Staley in a while wrote Erdoes: “I went and seen him final night. I’ve by no reach considered him so shaken. He also adamantly denies the ages,” Staley wrote Erdoes, the filing notes.
In his deposition, Staley used to be requested: “The behavior that he used to be being accused of, he used to be admitting that he did it. He used to be accurate denying that he knew the ages of the victims, appropriate?”
Staley responded, “Upright.”
“And also you had been reporting that relieve to the bank, that what used to be being denied is the ages, appropriate?” a authorized skilled for the Virgin Islands talked about.
Staley talked about, “Correct.”
He then conceded that the bank knew that Epstein had admitted to partaking in intercourse for money with younger ladies, whereas denying they had been underage.
The authorized skilled then requested, “And so when the bank is receiving that information, they now know what , which is, right here’s the form of behavior that our client is partaking in, and the finest dispute that he has in regards to the allegations are the ages of the victims, appropriate?”
Staley responded, “That is pretty.”
