Three of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims in his sex-trafficking ring penned emotional letters begging JPMorgan Chase executives to admit they knew about the sexual abuse as the banking giant faces two lawsuits alleging it benefited financially from Epstein’s operation.
When JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon was questioned under oath last week about the nearly 15 years Epstein was a client, he was asked whether he received one particular victim’s letter — to which he replied no, but that he had “enormous sympathy” for her.
That victim was Haley Robson, according to the Daily Beast.
In 2004, Robson was a 16-year-old student at Royal Palm High School in West Palm Beach, Fla., when Epstein, then 51, lured her into his abusive orbit.
Robson, now 30, recently addressed a letter to Dimon detailing the “shame” and “criticism” she’s experienced since Epstein’s demise.
“I cannot begin to explain how Epstein has consumed my life. I cannot make you see, for you to feel or even request that you show compassion to all the survivors,” the letter began, according to the Daily Beast.
“Why did we all get picked apart publicly when the reality is you and many more knew something and didn’t speak up?! How did the unexplained cash withdrawals not get reported?” Robson wrote, referring to Epstein’s frequent withdrawals from his JPMorgan accounts, which totaled more than $750,000 per year, internal bank documents revealed.
“I may not be as smart as you, but we should at least agree that the information you withheld has hurt me and many others,” she added.
Robson concluded the letter by telling Dimon: “If you are a good human, you will just admit to making a mistake and be the first to try to do what is right to end this chapter on a positive note for all of us.”
It’s unclear what exact date the letter was sent, though it was reportedly before Dimon’s deposition.
Another letter, sent from Courtney Wild to Mary Erdoes, CEO of JPMorgan’s asset and wealth management line of business, was dated May 8, 2023.
Wild, who was 14 when Epstein exploited her, told Erdoes in her scathing letter that “all of the crimes he committed required cash and your bank should have recognized that what he was doing was criminal and illegal,” according to the Daily Beast.
“Knowing full well that your bank and your bank alone had information to corroborate what dozens of kids like me were saying about the cash that he used to lure us in, abuse us and keep us quiet, you never notified law enforcement who were investigating his crimes,” Wild wrote in her handwritten letter.
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“As a mother, as a woman, as a former little girl, I want you to tell your lawyers to stop torturing victims,” Wild urged Erdoes, who has testified that she communicated with Epstein through phone calls and emails, and visited him in his New York City townhouse twice.
A third victim, who remained unnamed, sent a letter to Erdoes last year explaining how she thought she was going to Epstein’s Manhattan apartment for an interview to be his part-time personal assistant when he sexually assaulted her.
The Jane Doe, who was 23 years old at the time of the abuse, said in the letter that her “life and career took a dark and drastic turn” after that day.
“Why did you let him stay at your bank after you knew the horrible things that he had done to so many little girls?” she asked.
JPMorgan declined to comment on the letters.
During his two-day deposition May 26-27, Dimon reportedly maintained he never had any dealings with Epstein and pointed fingers at JPMorgan executive Jes Staley — who left the big bank in 2013 following a 30-year tenure for a gig at a hedge fund before rising to run Barclays.
Also in 2013, JPMorgan cut ties with Epstein for being a “high-risk client” over his federal charges for sex-trafficking minors.
Staley, who was ousted from Barclays in November 2021, reportedly exchanged around 1,200 emails with Epstein during his time at JPMorgan.
He also visited Epstein in prison following his conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor in Florida in 2008.
Epstein was forced to register as a sex offender in the US Virgin Islands, where he owned two islands, including one known as “Pedophile Island.”
The Virgin Islands is a plaintiff in one of two lawsuits against JP Morgan. According to its December 2022 lawsuit, “JPMorgan clearly knew it was not complying with federal regulations in regard to Epstein-related accounts.”
“Human trafficking was the principal business of the accounts Epstein maintained at JPMorgan,” the lawsuit stated. “JPMorgan 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.”
In another lawsuit against JPMorgan filed in November 2022, Jane Doe sued the bank for allegedly secretly presiding over Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring while continuing to keep him on as a client.
In her complaint, Doe said a “powerful financial executive” who was also friends with Epstein had sexually assaulted her. At the time, she refused to name the exec “out of fear,” but it was later revealed to be Staley.
Epstein was arrested on federal charges for sex-trafficking minors in 2019.
It wasn’t until Epstein’s arrest that Dimon even knew the sex offender was a JPMorgan client, he claimed during his deposition, according to the Daily Best.
“I don’t recall knowing anything about Jeffrey Epstein until the stories broke sometime in 2019,” Dimon testified.
In its suit, the Virgin Islands calls Dimon “a likely source of relevant and unique information” as to why JPMorgan kept Epstein on as a client after 2005, when Florida police began investigating him for molesting a 14-year-old girl.
Internal bank documents revealed that Epstein — who died by suicide behind bars in 2019 while awaiting trial — “routinely” made cash withdrawals between $40,000 and $80,000, totaling more than $750,000 per year, according to the Daily Beast.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
