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JPMorgan compliance staff drafted anti-trafficking policies as bank kept Epstein

By Samuel Rubenfeld ( October 31, 2025, 16:14 GMT | Comment) -- In 2010, as JP Morgan Chase retained convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as a client, its anti-money laundering compliance team worked on a project to protect the bank from misuse by human traffickers. The document was unsealed Friday in a lawsuit filed against the bank in 2022 by the US Virgin Islands, which is conducting a criminal probe of Epstein’s estate and those that facilitated his human trafficking enterprise..In 2010, as JP Morgan Chase kept convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as a client, its anti-money laundering compliance team worked on a project to protect the bank from misuse by human traffickers....

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