On July 7, the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI released a joint, unsigned memorandum that began with these words: “As part of our commitment to transparency….” The two-page memorandum reveals that these federal agencies had searched everything from databases to hard drives to locked cabinets and closets for documents pertaining to the international sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein, the college dropout who had amassed a $577.7 million fortune at the time of his death, according to probate documents in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The statement from the DOJ/FBI said its extensive searches had turned up 300 gigabytes of Epstein-related data. (For an idea of how much that might translate into if converted into Microsoft Word documents, it comes out to approximately 19.5 million pages or 65,000 pages per gigabyte according to tech experts.)

But despite that opening promise of “transparency,” the memorandum meanders its way to a very Trumpian finish. Not one word of the 300 gigabytes of Epstein data in the hands of the government would be released to the public. That’s because the President’s Praetorian Guard, populated by his own former defense attorneys, have determined that there was no “incriminating ‘client list’ ”; “no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals” and not a scintilla of “evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.”

The intellectually insulting memo landed like a hot fireball among Trump’s MAGA base. Trump had promised for years to expose all the elite pedophiles controlling the Deep State if he was returned to the Oval Office. The outrage was immediate on rightwing podcasts and social media.

The fallout has spiraled nonstop for the past month on evening news programs. Unfortunately, corporate media can’t seem to even whisper the name of the most obvious third-party target for a DOJ criminal charge: the largest bank in the United States, JPMorgan Chase, with a storied history of money laundering; five previous DOJ felony counts; and client relationships with Epstein’s two major money men – billionaires Leslie Wexner and Leon Black – both of whom have ties to Israel, as did Epstein.

According to court records, JPMorgan Chase sat at the very center of the financial side of this sex trafficking network and has an existing spreadsheet showing it processed 9,000 transactions payable to Epstein-related persons that occurred between 2005 and 2019 with a combined value of over $2.4 billion.

The hard evidence against JPMorgan Chase for both “facilitating” and “participating in” Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation consumes one million pages and 82,000 documents in court files in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in lower Manhattan. The documents were filed in connection with two separate federal lawsuits against JPMorgan Chase that were brought in late 2022 by the Attorney General of the U.S. Virgin Islands (where Epstein trafficked underage girls to his rich pals on his own secluded island compound); and a class action lawsuit brought by Epstein’s sexual assault victims.

After extensive discovery and the filing of tens of thousands of pages of redacted or sealed documents and deposition transcripts throughout much of 2023, JPMorgan Chase settled with the victims for $290 million and with the U.S. Virgin Islands for $75 million, rather than face a jury trial.

These federal lawsuits were civil cases, leaving the door wide open for the U.S. Department of Justice to bring criminal charges against JPMorgan Chase – something that, to date, the DOJ has failed to do despite a well-developed roadmap provided by these cases.

Although JPMorgan Chase was legally obligated to file Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) with the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) on a timely basis regarding these highly suspicious money flows to Epstein from some of the wealthiest men in America, the bank did not file SARs until after Epstein died in his jail cell on August 10, 2019, according to the U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General’s office. (The New York City Medical Examiner ruled Epstein’s death a suicide.)

While many of these court documents have been sealed since the moment they were filed with the court in 2023, the public and congressional investigators can download hundreds of lightly-redacted documents, as we did throughout 2023. These documents provide a critical investigative trail that any honest and competent prosecutor can follow to mount a strong case against JPMorgan Chase. In fact, that $365 million in settlement payments by JPMorgan Chase to Epstein’s victims and the U.S. Virgin Islands is a strong indicator that there are far bigger revelations to come.

At a March 13, 2023 court hearing, the Epstein victims’ attorney, David Boies, argued in open court that JPMorgan Chase had used a private jet owned by the bank’s hedge fund, Highbridge Capital, to transport girls for Epstein’s sex trafficking operation. (Epstein had brokered the deal for Highbridge Capital to be sold to JPMorgan in 2004 and received a $15 million fee for his work.)

A January 13, 2023 amended complaint filed by Boies’ law firm, elaborated on the allegation as follows: “Moreover, Highbridge, a wholly-owned subsidiary of JP Morgan, trafficked young women and girls on its own private jet from Florida to Epstein in New York as late as 2012.”

During a burst of document filings with the court in July 2023, we located an expert report written by a former FBI agent of 23 years, Shaun O’Neill, who indicated in writing that JPMorgan Chase had “impeded” the federal criminal investigation of Epstein.

The document had a heading at the top of each page that read: “Highly Confidential – Subject to Protective Order.” However, the notation on the docket was that the document was now being presented as a “redacted” document. We called the court deputy to be certain that the media was allowed to quote from the unredacted parts of the document. We were assured that we could.

A major revelation in the document is that former FBI agent O’Neill had been allowed to read the full deposition given in the case by William Langford, an anti-money-laundering (AML) executive at JPMorgan Chase, who had previously worked for the U.S. Treasury’s FinCEN.

According to O’Neill, Langford indicated in his deposition that Epstein became a JPMorgan client in 1985, not in 1998, the date that most major news media has heretofore reported that the relationship began. JPMorgan has not publicly corrected that information. If Langford is correct, that would mean that JPMorgan Chase has financial transaction files on Epstein dating back 40 years – which would certainly open a window into who provided Epstein’s early seed money and who his largest financial funders........

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