Jamie Dimon, chairman and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., during a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., US, on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022.
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JPMorgan Chase on Wednesday rejected allegations cited in a new report that CEO Jamie Dimon over years discussed the bank’s then-customer Jeffrey Epstein — a sex predator — with Jes Staley, who at the time was a top JPMorgan executive.
“We believe this is false. There is no evidence that any such communications ever occurred — nothing in the voluminous number of documents reviewed and nothing in the nearly dozen depositions taken, including that of our own CEO,” JPMorgan spokeswoman Patricia Wexler said in a statement to CNBC.
“The one person who claims this to be true is currently accused of horrific acts and dishonesty – and hasn’t been deposed,” Wexler said, referring to Staley.
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Wexler’s comments came hours after The Wall Street Journal published an article saying that Staley, in legal documents, said that for years he communicated with Dimon about JPMorgan’s business with Epstein.
Epstein was a client of the bank from 1998 to 2013, keeping hundreds of millions of dollars on deposit in multiple accounts.
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