Follow The Money
The New York Department of Financial Services filed a bombshell complaint against Deutsche Bank for its years-long association with Jeffrey Epstein. The complaint zeroes in on a new manager at the bank’s wealth-management division in 2013, who was friends with Epstein and recommended that it pursue him as a client. The manager not only noted that Epstein was super-wealthy, but also had a powerful network of friends, or “potential clients.” The bank ran a background check on Epstein and a memo was prepared for managers, revealing that Epstein was a convicted sex offender and included contemporaneous reports that he continued to victimize young girls. Despite the report, Deutsche Bank acknowledged receipt of the memo and approved his account anyway. That began a long relationship in which Epstein would use the bank as a sex-trafficking financing hub. The Hill’s Saagar Enjeti, who broke the story, says, “I think at its core, Epstein was a pedophile and he was a monster. But he was able to use that to enrich himself dramatically and then use that wealth to protect his pedophilia ring.” Here’s more on the story from Enjeti.
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