It has been reported that Elizabeth Warren has written to Jamie Dimon, demanding clarification on the extent of the relationship between JPMorgan Chase and Jeffrey Epstein, as well as what he knew about it.
According to the letter, Warren, the chief Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, wrote to Dimon last week, questioning whether he had sought Epstein's advice while lobbying against a UK tax on bankers' bonuses.
The letter references messages between Peter Mandelson and the deceased sex offender Epstein, disclosed in the Epstein files, which discussed the possibility of Dimon calling then UK Chancellor Alistair Darling.
Warren wrote in the letter: "These resurfaced emails and related reporting raise serious questions about the extent of the bank's relationship with Epstein and what you knew about those relationships."
JPMorgan Chase stated in a declaration that Dimon never met Epstein and "was not involved in any decisions relating to Epstein's accounts." The bank also stated that Dimon regularly communicates with various finance ministers on such topics, and any suggestion that he took advice from Epstein is false.
Epstein was a client of JPMorgan Chase from 1998 to 2013. The bank agreed in 2023 to pay $290 million in compensation to victims to settle allegations that it ignored red flags and continued to maintain Epstein as a client.
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