The former JPMorgan Chase & Co executive accused of shepherding the bank’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein formally denied involvement in the disgraced financier’s sex trafficking and blamed JPMorgan for keeping him as a client.In Wednesday night filings in a Manhattan federal court, Jes Staley said his dealings with Epstein were not the “proximate cause” of any damages JPMorgan might incur in two lawsuits it faces over its work with Epstein, a client from 1998 to 2013.Staley, who has denied wrongdoing and expressed regret for befriending Epstein, said he did not know Epstein would coerce young women and girls into having sex, or that anyone under 18 would be pressured into sex.
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