Epstein Judge tells ex-Barclays boss Jes Staley to stop whining
Judge tells ex-Barclays boss Jes Staley to stop whining about legal action in his relationship with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein
Ex-Barclays boss Jes Staley has been charged with nagging by a judge overseeing legal action related to his relationship with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Judge Jed Rakoff rejected a request from Staley for a lawsuit against him by separating his former employer JP Morgan from two other cases involving the Wall Street bank.
Staley also asked for the trial date to be pushed back to March 2024.
Denied: Judge Jed Rakoff rejected a request from Staley (pictured) to separate a lawsuit against him by his former employer JP Morgan from two other cases involving the Wall Street bank
“None of Staley’s whining even remotely warrants a severance payment or a change to the date of the joint trial,” the judge said in a New York court ruling.
The ruling rejected “the perceived need of his law firm of 400 lawyers for more time to prepare.”
It is the latest installment in a legal battle centered on Epstein’s conduct involving JP Morgan. Staley was a senior executive at the investment bank – before joining Barclays – and financier Epstein was his client.
JP Morgan faces two civil suits alleging that it facilitated Epstein’s activities — one from the U.S. Virgin Islands, where Epstein had a home, and the other brought by an alleged victim.
U.S. Virgin Islands lawyers claimed the disgraced financier’s behavior was “so well known to JP Morgan that senior executives joked about his interest in young girls.”
The bank is seeking to recover tens of millions of dollars it paid to Staley from 2006 to 2013 to cover the costs it may have incurred as a result.
Court documents show it has identified Staley – who stepped down as Barclays boss in November 2021 following an investigation by City regulators into his relationship with Epstein – as the “powerful finance director” who the alleged anonymous victim “Jane Doe” claims has helped her sexually abused. .
She claimed Staley (pictured) had Epstein’s permission to do whatever he wanted with her — but she’d been too scared to name him.
Staley’s legal team, in an effort to separate matters, has described allegations about his connection to Epstein as “defamatory” and “baseless” and claimed the legal timeline gave him “grossly insufficient time” to defend himself.
But the judge said, “Barred of his heated rhetoric, Staley’s motion does not identify an issue that has not been previously considered by the court.”
His lawyer declined to comment when asked by the Mail about the “whining”.