Jamie Dimon, chairman and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., right, at the US Capitol following a meeting with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, May 17, 2023.
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Lawyers for a Jeffrey Epstein victim asked a federal judge on Friday to allow them to take new testimony from JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and other executives as part of their lawsuit against the bank over its dealings with the sex predator.
The lawyers, who two weeks ago deposed Dimon for the suit, in a Manhattan District Court filing cited JPMorgan’s alleged failure to promptly turn over documents to them as part of the case, as required by the judge. That prevented the accuser’s lawyers from asking questions about those documents at the time Dimon and other key witnesses were deposed, according to the filing.
One such document, turned over after Dimon’s deposition was taken on May 26, “appears to refer to a 2019 internal review of [redacted] electronic communications with Jeffrey Epstein, conducted after Epstein’s 2019 arrest and death,” according to the filing.
“Despite the Court’s clear warning, JPMC still failed to expeditiously produce documents from the custodial files of key witnesses, some of whom had already been deposed, for strategic reasons,” wrote Sigrid McCawley, a lawyer for the accuser, who is suing under the pseudonym Jane Doe.
“For example, the weekend prior to the close of fact discovery, and immediately after the May 26 deposition of its CEO Jamie Dimon, JPMC produced 1,500 documents, some of which came from the custodial files of witnesses whose depositions had long passed,” McCawley wrote. “This pattern of producing documents from the custodial files of witnesses after their depositions has persisted throughout the discovery period.”
CNBC has requested comment on the filing from JPMorgan.
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