“How does industrial-scale sexual abuse happen? That’s the thread that these lawsuits are pulling. And that’s something that goes beyond the list of names that the public is demanding.
What was the nature of the relationship between Jean-Luc Brunel and Jeffrey Epstein?
Who wired what? Through what instrument with whom? And who saw what was going on at a time there was a wealth of information about it and decided to look the other way?”
Above, Adam Klasfeld and I dissect the latest class action lawsuits, filed yesterday in the Southern District of New York, on behalf an Epstein victim, “Jane Doe” against Bank of America and Bank of New York Mellon Corporation.
You can read the complaint against Bank of America here.
And the complaint against Bank of New York Mellon Corporation here.
It’s also worth reading another complaint, filed in the Southern District of New York in 2024, here, which Adam talks about, and which is connected to yesterday’s suits. This one alleges that Epstein’s long term accountant, Richard Kahn, and his in-house lawyer, Darren Indyke, enabled Epstein’s sex-trafficking scheme over the years, by, for example, helping him set up bank accounts to pay the women, and organizing “sham” marriages to help foreign women become US citizens. (Both men deny the charges.)
Doe was living in Russia in 2011, when she met Epstein, according to the complaints. Epstein subsequently set up accounts with both banks in her name (with the help and knowledge of Kahn and Indyke, according to the complaints) for multiple purposes, including sex trafficking, but also immigration fraud.
Adam and I have long banged the drum about the importance of understanding Epstein’s money trail in order to understand how he abused so many women and girls. His sex trafficking enterprise only worked if a whole bunch of professionals, including the banks, helped him. Both Bank of American and Bank of New York Mellon Corporation had Epstein as a client AFTER he went to jail in 2009 having pled guilty on state charges of soliciting a minor, among other things. So, it was well known he was sex offender.
Adam and I discuss whether Bank of America and Bank of New York Mellon Corp will fight these suits in the way that JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank each did before settling. (JP Morgan settled for $290 million; Deutsche bank for $70 million). I point out that JP Morgan’s prolonged battle turned out to be very damaging for the bank due to the discovery that emerged during litigation, which clearly showed that there were numerous red flags waved internally about Epstein, going up to the highest levels, and yet they were repeatedly ignored. Even after the bank cut him off as a client in 2014, executives continued to cultivate him, reportedly because they saw him as a conduit to Leon Black, something I find hard to get my head around. Why couldn’t JP Morgan easily get to Leon Black?
Well, perhaps, we got the answer yesterday: Black used Bank of America, not JP Morgan, to pay Epstein $170 million for “tax advice.”
Adam and I also dissect the latest developments in the indictments of James Comey and Letitia James.
And the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear the appeal of conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones, who owes the families of the Sandy Hook victims, 1.5 billion in defamation damages, because he repeatedly denied the massacre took place.
Plus, we get into how and when the Supreme Court is likely to rule on the Voter’s Registration Act.
As always, Adam takes us in to the nitty-gritty of the law, in a way that few others can.
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