JPMorgan says it did not facilitate Epstein's illegal activity
JPMorgan Chase & Co.Kathleen Mellody, head of federal government relations, in a letter to Sen. Elizabeth Warren
JPMorgan tells Warren it ended its relationship with Epstein in 2013 and did not facilitate or knowingly enable illegal activity.
“JPMC ended its banking relationship with Jeffrey Epstein in 2013. The Firm did not facilitate or knowingly enable illegal activity.”
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Warren and Garcia bill would force regulators to investigate banks tied to Epstein; the Fed and OCC say they cannot comment on investigations
Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Robert Garcia introduced the Epstein Wall Street Records Act on October 15, 2026. It would require the Federal Reserve, FDIC, OCC and SEC to disclose Epstein-related supervisory records, investigate banks and executives connected to Epstein, and impose industry bans and penalties on executives found to have enabled his access to the financial system. Warren says Trump's financial regulators failed to act on her requests for investigations. In letters she released, Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman and Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould said they could not comment on specific investigations, and JPMorgan Chase said it did not facilitate or knowingly enable illegal activity.
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JPMorgan Chase's reply to Warren's July 10, 2026, letter about Jamie Dimon and Epstein, released by Warren's Senate Banking Committee office on October 15, 2026. The letter disputes Warren's account of Dimon's involvement and says the firm ended its relationship with Epstein in 2013.
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American Banker report on the Epstein Wall Street Records Act, introduced October 15, 2026. It quotes the press release statements of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Rep. Thomas Massie and Rep. Robert Garcia, Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman's June 12 letter to Warren and JPMorgan's letter to Warren.
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Warren had written to JPMorgan on July 10, 2026, about Jamie Dimon and Epstein. The bank's reply says Dimon never met or emailed Epstein and was not involved in any decision to have him as a client, and that with the benefit of hindsight any association with Epstein was a mistake.
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The letter adds that the relationship ended before Epstein was charged by federal authorities and that information about his criminal behavior was available to law enforcement years earlier but was not shared with financial institutions or the public.
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Relative to whether banks and their executives enabled Epstein's crimes, JPMorgan denies that it facilitated or knowingly enabled illegal activity, while saying that in hindsight any association with Epstein was a mistake.
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