Warren asks JP Morgan CEO Dimon about Epstein contact
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Senator Elizabeth Warren has written to JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon requesting clarification on the bank’s contact with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, asked whether Dimon took advice from Epstein while lobbying against a UK tax on banker bonuses. The letter, published by the committee on Monday, cites a 2009 email from the Epstein files showing Epstein asking former Labour minister Peter Mandelson if Dimon should lobby the UK chancellor. Mandelson replied that Dimon should “mildly threaten” the chancellor, and Dimon is reported to have subsequently spoken to the chancellor. A JP Morgan spokesperson stated that Dimon never met Epstein and was not involved in decisions about his account, and that any suggestion Dimon spoke with Epstein or took counsel from him is false. The bank also stated it exited Epstein as a client in 2013, years before his federal sex trafficking arrest.
What’s reported
Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote to JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon requesting clarification on the bank’s contact with Jeffrey Epstein.
Warren asked if Dimon took advice from Epstein while lobbying against a UK tax on banker bonuses.
A 2009 email from the Epstein files showed Epstein asking Peter Mandelson if Dimon should lobby UK chancellor Alistair Darling.
Mandelson replied that Dimon should “mildly threaten” the chancellor, and Dimon is reported to have subsequently spoken to Darling.
A JP Morgan spokesperson said Dimon never met Epstein and was not involved in decisions about his account.
The bank stated it exited Epstein as a client in 2013, years before his federal sex trafficking arrest.
Key figures
Elizabeth Warren, top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee
Jamie Dimon, chair and chief executive of JP Morgan
Jeffrey Epstein, late sex offender
Peter Mandelson, former Labour minister
Alistair Darling, former UK chancellor
Jes Staley, former JP Morgan executive and ex-Barclays boss
Sources: The Guardian
