| On 2d Bid to Unseal Epstein
Case in SDNY Estate No Objection
As JPM Chase Challenged
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY,
Dec 3 – After passage of the
Epstein Files Transparency Act
in Congress, DOJ made a second
request to unseal his criminal
case in the U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York, which
Inner City Press closely
covers.
On November 25,
Judge Richard M. Berman set a
schedule: "response to the
Government's second motion are
due by noon on December 3,
2025.
On the morning of
December 3 the Epstein Estate
wrote in that "In view of the
Government’s commitment to
“make appropriate redactions
of victimrelated and other
personal identifying
information . . . [t]o the
extent permitted by [H.R.
4405],” (id. at 8), the
Epstein Estate takes no
position regarding the
Government’s motion to
unseal." Letter on Patreon here.
The case is USA
v. Epstein, 1:19-cr-490
(Berman)
Meanwhile,
JPMorgan Chase's apparent
enabling of sex trafficking by
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine
Maxwell, as well as its
"debanking," have been
formally raised by Fair
Finance Watch on November 24
to the US Office of the
Comptroller of the Currency,
opposing JPMC's applications
including to open eight
branches while closing in low
and moderate income
communities.
As
the US bank regulators
including the OCC under
Comptroller Jonathan V. Gould
move to limit public notice
and participation in review of
banks' applications for
approvals, and purport to take
seriously debanking and even
banks' enabling of sex
trafficking, this was a test -
failed on December 2 when the
OCC denied any hearing, saying
the request wasn't specific
enough
To Comptroller
Gould and To Whom it May
Concern at the OCC:
On behalf of Fair Finance
Watch and in my personal
capacity there are timely
comments opposing JPMorgan
Chase NA's branch applications
list below, all of which have
comment periods running
through today November 24 or
later. These comments are
timely.
...for the record on these and
all other JPM Chase
applications before the OCC,
now and until at least the end
of the year: JPM Chase has
been exposed as having enabled
sex traffickers Jeffrey
Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell,
including a current
Congressional inquiry into
Suspicious Activity Reports it
should have filed by
didn't.
A hearing
is requested, timely
opposition made.
Thank you for
your attention, /s/ Matthew
Lee, Esq. Executive Director
Fair Finance Watch
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