U.S. Virgin Islands
place
Also written as: USVI · the USVI
Involved in
- Epstein suggested that the USVI might revise the law to more narrowly apply to “predators,” a category from which he apparently excluded himself.
- A spokeswoman for the USVI attorney general’s office said last month that JPMorgan, “which had a legal responsibility to report the evidence in its possession of Epstein’s human trafficking,” was trying to shift blame to the territory.
- According to JPMorgan, Epstein wasn’t happy with the law that passed in June 2012, and de Jongh promised she would find ways for him to get around the restrictions.
- JPMorgan is fighting a lawsuit by the USVI, accusing it of facilitating Epstein’s sex trafficking.
- In an October 2019 email, a few months after Epstein was arrested for sex trafficking and was subsequently found dead in his Manhattan jail cell, a group of USVI officials communicated about an inquiry from the New York Times about tax incentives Epstein was given by the territory.
- The USVI is asking the judge to stop JPMorgan from asserting an “unclean hands” defense.
- Neither de Jongh nor a lawyer for the USVI responded to requests for comment Thursday.
- Jeffrey Epstein paid tuition for the children of the U.S. Virgin Islands’ governor and first lady, including at Skidmore College.
- JPMorgan is continuing to vigorously fight the USVI suit even after announcing Monday that it had agreed to settle a similar lawsuit by victims of Epstein’s abuse for $290 million.
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