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Levin Committee report makes fraud case for JPMorgan shareholders

Levin Committee report makes fraud case for JPMorgan shareholders

On Tuesday, shareholder lawyers leading the 10-month-old securities fraud class action accusing JPMorgan Chase of deceiving investors about billions of dollars in losses by the bank's chief investment office received permission to delay filing their latest complaint until April 12, in order to allow them time to digest the findings of a Senate investigation of the bank's so-called "whale trades." That was good thinking. The 307-page report of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, released Thursday evening, is a trove for plaintiffs' lawyers, filled with well-documented allegations of overly risky, undersupervised trading by JPMorgan's chief investment office; deliberate attempts by the CIO to minimize the appearance of burgeoning losses; and subsequent efforts by the bank to mislead regulators and investors about the CIO's activities and losses. The report references "previously undisclosed" emails, memos and other documents purportedly showing that "senior managers were told the (CIO portfolio) was massive, losing money, and had stopped providing credit loss protection to the bank, yet downplayed those problems and kept describing the portfolio as a risk-reducing hedge, until forced by billions of dollars in losses to admit disaster."

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