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Jes Staley’s Ties to Jeffrey Epstein at JPMorgan Chase Just Cost Him His CEO Job at Barclays

Courtesy of Pam Martens

Jes Staley

Jes Staley, Outgoing CEO at Barclays

Jes Staley, the CEO at the British global bank, Barclays, is stepping down immediately following a probe by British regulators into his ties with child sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein. Staley’s ties to Epstein occurred while he was an executive at JPMorgan Chase, the U.S. bank that has racked up five felony counts from the U.S. Department of Justice in the past seven years.

Staley will be replaced as CEO by Barclays’ head of global markets, C.S. Venkatakrishnan, who himself came from JPMorgan Chase.

Reuters reported early this morning that Staley’s abrupt departure came after Barclays was informed this past Friday of the, as yet unreleased, findings of a report by U.K. financial regulators’ into Staley’s characterization of his relationship with Epstein, who killed himself in jail in August 2019 while awaiting trial on charges involving child sex trafficking.

On February 13 of last year, the Financial Times reported that the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority and the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority had opened an investigation into Staley’s relationship with Epstein after JPMorgan Chase had provided a cache of emails between the two men to U.S. regulators, who passed them on to their counterparts in the U.K. (JPMorgan Chase was under a deferred prosecution agreement and on probation for rigging foreign exchange trading, which required it to cooperate fully with the Justice Department and turn over any evidence of wrongdoing).

A 2019 investigation conducted by Wall Street On Parade indicated that Epstein’s ties to JPMorgan Chase date back to at least 2001 when Epstein presided as Chairman over an offshore company incorporated in Bermuda called Liquid Funding Ltd. That company grew to at least $6.7 billion in outstanding liabilities. JPMorgan Chase was one of three banks providing a $250 million liquidity facility to Liquid Funding Ltd. JPMorgan Chase was also listed as its “Security Trustee.” Liquid Funding appeared to be propping up dodgy subprime mortgage dealers by giving them loans. Bear Stearns, where Epstein had worked from 1976 to 1981, owned 40 percent of the equity in the company.


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