JPMorgan Chase &Co. is an American multinational finance company headquartered in New York City and incorporated in Delaware. It is the largest bank in the United States and the world's largest bank by market capitalization as of 2023. As the largest of Big Four banks,the firm is considered systemically important by the Financial Stability Board. Its size and scale have often led to enhanced regulatory oversight as well as the maintenance of an internal "Fortress Balance Sheet". The firm is temporarily headquartered at 383 Madison Avenue in Midtown Manhattan and is set to move back across the street into the under-construction JPMorgan Chase Building at 270 Park Avenue in 2025.
JPMorgan Chase Bank,N.A.,doing business as Chase,is an American national bank headquartered in New York City that constitutes the consumer and commercial banking subsidiary of the U.S. multinational banking and financial services holding company,JPMorgan Chase. The bank was known as Chase Manhattan Bank until it merged with J.P. Morgan &Co. in 2000. Chase Manhattan Bank was formed by the merger of the Chase National Bank and the Manhattan Company in 1955. The bank merged with Chemical Bank New York in 1996 and later merged with Bank One Corporation in 2004 and in 2008 acquired the deposits and most assets of Washington Mutual. In May 2023,it acquired the assets of First Republic Bank.
James Dimon is an American banker and businessman who has been the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of JPMorgan Chase since 2006.
Jeffrey Edward Epstein was an American financier and sex offender. Born and raised in New York City,Epstein began his professional life as a teacher at the Dalton School despite lacking a college degree. After his dismissal from the school in 1976,he entered the banking and finance sector,working at Bear Stearns in various roles before starting his own firm. Epstein cultivated an elite social circle and procured many women and children whom he and his associates sexually abused.
Little Saint James is a small private island in the United States Virgin Islands,southeast of Saint Thomas. It was owned by American financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from 1998 until his death in 2019. During Epstein's ownership the island acquired the nickname Epstein Island.
Leon David Black is an American private equity investor. He is the former CEO of Apollo Global Management,which he co-founded in 1990 with Marc Rowan and Josh Harris. Black was the chairman of the Museum of Modern Art from 2018 to 2021.
Rene Alexander Acosta is an American attorney and politician,who served as the 27th United States Secretary of Labor from 2017 to 2019. President Donald Trump nominated Acosta to be Labor Secretary on February 16,2017,and he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 27,2017.
The recovery of funds from the Madoff investment scandal has been underway since the scandal broke in December 2008. That month,recovery trustee Irving Picard received funds from the Bank of New York account where Bernard Madoff held new investments into his Ponzi scheme. As it has been concluded that no legitimate investments were made on the investors' behalf for at least the last 12 years of operation,recovery has proceeded on a "money in/money out" basis. Investors are entitled to receive no more than the nominal cash amounts that they paid in and did not subsequently withdraw,without regard to inflation,interest,opportunity cost or the false statements that Madoff provided them. Those statements combined to a total balance of approximately $64 billion,while the admitted claims amount to $19.5 billion. As of March 2024,the trustee had recovered $14.7 billion toward these claims through legal action against Madoff associates,feeder funds and beneficiaries of the scheme,and had made fifteen distributions to investors. Action by the Department of Justice has recovered an additional $4 billion.
James Edward "Jes" Staley is an American banker,and the former group chief executive of Barclays. He stepped down as CEO on November 1,2021,and was succeeded by C. S. Venkatakrishnan. Staley has nearly four decades of experience in banking and financial services. He spent 34 years at J.P. Morgan's investment bank,ultimately becoming CEO. In 2013,he moved to BlueMountain Capital,and in December 2015,became CEO of Barclays. In November 2021,Staley resigned amid a regulatory probe into whether he mischaracterized his relationship with the financier,human trafficker,and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Kenneth Ezra Mapp is an American politician who served as the eighth elected Governor of the United States Virgin Islands,from 2015 to 2019. He is registered Republican,but ran as an independent.
Jeffrey Martin Landry is an American politician and attorney who has served since 2024 as the 57th governor of Louisiana. A member of the Republican Party,he served as the 45th attorney general of Louisiana from 2016 to 2024 and as the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 3rd congressional district from 2011 to 2013.
Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell is a British former socialite and convicted sex offender. In 2021,she was found guilty of child sex trafficking and other offences in connection with the deceased financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In June 2022,she was sentenced in a New York court to twenty years' imprisonment.
Bill Clinton,the 42nd president of the United States (1993–2001),has been publicly accused of sexual misconduct,including rape,harassment,and sexual assault. Additionally,some commentators have characterized Clinton's sexual relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky as predatory or non-consensual,despite the fact that Lewinsky called the relationship consensual at the time. These allegations have been revisited and lent more credence in 2018,in light of the #MeToo movement,with many commentators and Democratic leaders now saying Clinton should have been compelled to resign after the Lewinsky scandal.
Jeffrey Marc "Jeff" Herman is an American trial lawyer who specializes in representing victims of sexual abuse,and has been described as a "[t]op church sex abuse attorney". He is the founding and managing partner of the South Florida-based firm Herman Law,and has been described in the media as "the nation's leading attorney when it comes to handling high-profile sexual abuse lawsuits".
The following is a list of notable lawsuits involving former United States president Donald Trump. The list excludes cases that only name Trump as a legal formality in his capacity as president,such as habeas corpus requests.
The attorney general of the United States Virgin Islands supervises and directs the Department of Justice. In 1962,the Virgin Islands Department of Law was established as an executive department in the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands pursuant to the Virgin Islands Code. With the passage of Act No. 5265 in 1987,the department was now referred to as the Virgin Islands Department of Justice. Additionally,the passage of Act No. 5265 placed the Bureau of Corrections under the jurisdiction and administration of the Department of Justice—remaining there until October 1,2009. The department has the following divisions:
Albert Bryan Jr. is an American politician serving since 2019 as the ninth governor of the United States Virgin Islands.
Virginia Louise Giuffre is an American-Australian campaigner who offers support to victims of sex trafficking. She is an alleged victim of the sex trafficking ring of Jeffrey Epstein. Giuffre created Victims Refuse Silence,a non-profit based in the United States,in 2015,which was relaunched under the name Speak Out,Act,Reclaim (SOAR) in November 2021. She has given a detailed account to many American and British reporters about her experiences of being trafficked by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Carol Thomas-Jacobs (1968/1969) is a judge on the United States Virgin Islands Superior Court. She was the acting Attorney General of the United States Virgin Islands in from January to April 2023.
Ariel K. Smith is a U.S. Virgin Islands lawyer who served as the 19th attorney general of the United States Virgin Islands from 2023 to 2024.
