Former JPMorgan Chase executive Jes Staley has asked a U.S. court to dismiss a lawsuit filed against him by the bank that sought to hold him responsible for liabilities arising from Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operations.
JPMorgan wants Staley to forfeit eight years of his compensation as well as cover the bank’s losses in two lawsuits it’s facing due to working with Epstein. In a filing made Monday night at a federal court in Manhattan, Staley, who befriended Epstein, said he wasn’t facing allegations that his services at JPMorgan acted as a “lifeblood” of Epstein’s sex-trafficking operations or that he knew about any related suspicious activity in Epstein’s accounts.
