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The U.S. Virgin Islands has reportedly fired the attorney general of the U.S. territory who pursued several cases against disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, Denise George.
According to the Associated Press, the cases include an extensive legal battle that resulted in a $105 million settlement. In the suit filed against JP Morgan Chase on Dec. 27, the U.S. Virgin Island’s government alleged that the company “knowingly facilitated, sustained, and concealed the human trafficking network operated by Jeffrey Epstein from his home and base in the Virgin Islands, and financially benefited from this participation, directly or indirectly, by failing to comply with federal banking regulations.”
It additionally alleged that the company hid wire and cash transactions.
George’s removal came just days after she filed the lawsuit in New York which accused JPMorgan Chase of assisting Epstein fund the illegal exploitation of women and children in the U.S. Virgin Islands and other places. It reportedly reached the $105 settlement with the territory in late November.
Gov. Albert Bryan Jr. had not provided a reason for relieving the financier of her duties, he announced via a statement on Jan. 1. All Bryan Jr. revealed was that she would be replaces by Assistant Attorney General Carol Thomas-Jacobs.
“Human trafficking was the principal business of the accounts Epstein maintained at JP Morgan,” the lawsuit reads. “JP Morgan turned a blind eye to evidence of human trafficking over more than a decade because of Epstein’s own financial footprint, and because of the deals and clients that Epstein brought and promised to bring to the bank.”
Epstein reportedly committed suicide at a federal jail in New York in August 2019 while waiting for trial. He had pleaded not guilty to charges of sexually abusing dozens of girls, including some as young as 14 years old.