JPMorgan Chase says Jeffrey Epstein paid tuition for teenagers of U.S. Virgin Islands governor

Intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein paid faculty tuition for the youngsters of then-governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands, whose spouse made efforts to safe scholar visas and a piece license for younger girls linked to Epstein, based on an up to date court docket submitting Thursday by JPMorgan Chase.

These tuition funds, whose length and quantities weren’t revealed, allowed then-Gov. John de Jongh Jr. “to funnel extra cash to his political campaigns,” JPMorgan stated within the submitting in U.S. District Court docket in Manhattan.

Epstein additionally “supplied to fund Governor de Jongh’s protection within the Governor’s legal case,” the place the then-governor was charged in 2015 in reference to using public funds to make safety enhancements at his non-public residence, based on the submitting. These prices had been dropped in early 2016 by the Virgin Islands Division of Justice.

JPMorgan alleges Epstein’s generosity was a part of his broader effort to construct sway on the islands.

The submitting is a part of the financial institution’s protection of a civil lawsuit by the U.S. Virgin Islands alleging JPMorgan facilitated Epstein’s intercourse trafficking of younger girls. Epstein, who was a JPMorgan buyer between 1998 and 2013, owned two non-public islands within the territory and abused a number of younger girls at his residence on a kind of islands.

JPMorgan denies wrongdoing within the case.

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon is because of be deposed Friday for the Virgin Islands’ lawsuit, in addition to for the same one filed in opposition to the financial institution by an accuser of Epstein.

“Lest there be doubt that Epstein’s purpose was to achieve affect, First Woman [Cecile] de Jongh explicitly suggested Epstein on learn how to purchase management of the USVI political class,” the submitting says.

The doc additionally refers to at least one time when Cecile de Jongh was “asking Epstein what visas the ‘women’ have and making an attempt to rearrange English as a Second Language courses for them.”

Former Gov. de Jongh served as Virgin Islands governor between 2007 and 2015.

Cecile de Jongh labored for Epstein, managing his corporations within the territory. She made $200,000 in 2007 alone, the submitting notes.

CNBC has reached out to the de Jonghs for remark via an asset administration agency within the Virgin Islands the place the previous governor is a director.

The submitting was first docketed Tuesday with intensive redactions, however it was refiled Thursday, with some particulars about former Gov. de Jongh and Cecile now seen. Additionally seen are allegations associated to present Virgin Islands Gov. Albert Bryan Jr. and his fast predecessor in that workplace, Kenneth Mapp.

Bryan, who is because of be deposed June 6 within the case, prompt faculties to which Epstein ought to donate $50,000, the submitting stated. Bryan additionally requested $30,000 go to the Virgin Islands Little League, based on the doc.

Parts of the submitting that had been seen Tuesday stated the federal government of the Virgin Islands was “complicit within the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein.”

JPMorgan stated Epstein — who died in 2019 by a jailhouse suicide whereas awaiting trial on federal intercourse trafficking prices — gave prime officers within the territory cash, recommendation and favors as they seemed the opposite method when he trafficked younger girls there.

A spokesperson for the Workplace of the Legal professional Basic of the Virgin Islands, in an emailed assertion responding to the up to date submitting, stated, “JPMorgan Chase facilitated Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse, and must be held accountable for violating the legislation.”

“That is an apparent try to shift blame away from JPMorgan Chase, which had a obligation to report the proof in its possession of Epstein’s human trafficking, and failed to take action,” the spokesperson stated.

The doc calls Cecile de Jongh, who managed Epstein’s corporations there when she was first woman, “a prepared accomplice” in serving to Epstein transport younger girls to take advantage of within the Virgin Islands, the place he maintained a house.

The financial institution alleged Cecile de Jongh was “Epstein’s major conduit for spreading cash and affect all through the USVI authorities.” The submitting stated she emailed him in 2011 proposed language for a invoice within the Virgin Islands legislature that may replace intercourse offender monitoring legal guidelines.

“That is the prompt language; will it give you the results you want?” she requested in that electronic mail, based on the submitting.

The doc additionally stated Epstein, who was a registered intercourse offender attributable to his conviction in Florida state court docket in 2008 for soliciting intercourse from a minor, replied, “We must always add out of nation for greater than 7 days, in any other case I couldn’t go for a day journey to Tortola, on the final minute.”

JPMorgan alleged Epstein, regardless of receiving “profitable tax incentives” and “lax enforcement” of his intercourse offender standing from the Virgin Islands, “nonetheless couldn’t freely transport and exploit younger girls with out help from USVI authorities officers.”

The submitting stated Cecile de Jongh “organized for Epstein to fulfill with a neighborhood immigration lawyer to help at the very least one” younger girl who wanted a visa to go to the American territory.

Cecile de Jongh additionally “contacted the College of the Virgin Islands … to seek out out whether or not three younger girls might enroll there to acquire scholar visas,” based on the submitting.

“Maybe cognizant of the chance in having a registered intercourse offender signal the letter, First Woman de Jongh wrote to Epstein that he ought to take into consideration whether or not ‘[he] ought to signal [the letter] or one among us,'” the doc stated.

“Finally UVI structured a bespoke class to enroll victims and supply cowl for his or her presence within the territory — the identical 12 months Epstein donated $20,000 to the college via one among his corporations,” the submitting stated.

“Along with visas, a few of the younger girls Epstein dropped at the island additionally wanted
employment,” the submitting famous.

The doc stated when a kind of girls wanted a dental license, “First Woman de Jongh reached out to the Director for the Workplace of Skilled Licensure and Well being Planning on the USVI Division of Well being relating to a ‘new apply act’ that may have ‘important modifications and allowances for reciprocity.'”

“The Director wrote to Ms. de Jongh that when the act went earlier than the Senate Committee she would have a ‘clearer thought on what [the young woman’s] choices are transferring ahead,'” it stated.

The submitting alleged Cecile de Jongh additionally reached out to contacts within the legal professional normal’s workplace and solicitor normal’s workplace concerning the new guidelines.

“Finally, First Woman de Jongh was profitable,” the submitting stated. “The younger girl finally set
up a neighborhood dental apply within the USVI and shared an workplace with Epstein’s corporations.”

In detailing claims Cecile suggested Epstein on learn how to use his cash to regulate politicians within the USVI, the submitting says Epstein, at her suggestion, “explored paying month-to-month retainers to USVI politicians to make sure their ‘loyalty and entry.'”

“First Woman de Jongh prompt that Epstein ‘take into account placing Celestino [White] on some kind of month-to-month retainer. That’s what will get you his loyalty and entry,'” stated the doc.

White was a USVI senator.

The submitting additionally particulars how Epstein met typically with the management of the USVI Port Authority, which leased hangar area to him at its airport, the place girls had been introduced in for Epstein.

Cecile de Jongh at one level requested Epstein, on behalf of her husband, the governor, “if he would help” the bid by then-USVI Sen. Carlton Dowe to return to the Port Authority, the submitting stated.

Dowe, based on the message from Cecile, can be a “good particular person for us” there, the submitting stated.

“Primarily based on his authorities connections, when touring via the USVI’s airport accompanied by younger girls as a registered intercourse offender, Epstein might rely on his ‘nice relationship’ with the officers there to keep away from scrutiny or detection,” the submitting stated.

“In sum, in trade for Epstein’s money and items, USVI made life straightforward for him,” JPMorgan’s submitting stated.

The doc added, “The federal government mitigated any burdens from his intercourse offender standing. And it made positive that nobody requested too many questions on his transport and maintaining of younger ladies on his island.”