Former JPMorgan Chase & Co. executive Jes Staley had multiple conversations for years with JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon over the bank's business with Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing legal documents.
Staley's statements, recorded in these legal documents, mark the first emergence of the ex-executive mentioning conversations with Dimon over the Epstein case. Staley shared that he and the current JPMorgan CEO discussed the matter first in 2006 when Epstein was arrested and in 2008 when he pleaded guilty. He went on to say that Dimon communicated with him about the question of whether Epstein should remain a client multiple times in 2012.
JPMorgan spokeswoman continued to insist that "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," further accusing Staley of being dishonest.
