Three years after pleading guilty to soliciting prostitution of a minor, Jeffrey Epstein had the ear of the wife of the then-Virgin Islands governor in attempting to craft sex-offender legislation that wouldn’t put too much of a crimp in his lifestyle.
That’s one of the latest scorching allegations in a legal brief filed by JPMorgan Chase, which is trying to turn the tables on the Virgin Islands government.
Since late last year, the Virgin Islands has tried to hold the behemoth financial institution liable for knowingly profiting from Epstein’s sex-trafficking conspiracy. JPMorgan’s most potent defense against the allegations has been a counteroffensive, the latest of which reveals alleged communications between Epstein and former Virgin Islands first lady Cecile de Jongh from 2011.
That May, the Virgin Islands legislature considered amending sex offender monitoring laws, and the bank quoted de Jongh running the proposed language by Epstein.
“This is the suggested language; will it work for you?” de Jongh wrote, according to the brief.
“We should add out of country for more than 7 days, otherwise I could not go for a day trip to Tortola, at the last minute,” the sex offender allegedly replied, referring to the largest isle on the British Virgin Islands.
Epstein also fretted the statute’s transparency provisions could make certain information “accessible by the press,” according to the filing.
“If we are not careful. A list of who I stay with should violate my privacy,” he...
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