Girls abused by Jeffrey Epstein sued Financial institution of America in Manhattan on Wednesday, alleging its executives violated banking legal guidelines and ignored purple flags out of “absolute loyalty” to the deceased financier and disrespect for victims of his baby intercourse trafficking ring.
The Manhattan federal court docket go well with, filed on behalf of a person Jane Doe who alleges Epstein abused her from 2011 by means of 2019 and a proposed class of victims, alleges Financial institution of America ignored “a plethora” of proof that Epstein, for years, trafficked teenage ladies and younger ladies, however selected to revenue over defending them.
“Bank of America cared about one thing—profit—and showed absolute loyalty to Epstein,” the go well with reads.
“Epstein only offered his business to Bank of America because it was knowingly aiding Epstein’s sex trafficking operation and the concealment thereof. Bank of America knew that if it stopped aiding the operation, it would lose the Epstein-related accounts and the financial benefits attached to handling those accounts.”
Financial institution of America declined to remark.
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This March 28, 2017 picture supplied by the New York State Intercourse Offender Registry reveals Jeffrey Epstein.
Wednesday’s lawsuit cites Treasury Division data displaying Epstein and his associates made 4,725 wire transfers totaling greater than $1 billion between 2003 and 2019, highlighted in an ongoing probe by the Home Judiciary Committee.
It alleges that not less than one account Epstein requested Jane Doe to open at Financial institution of America in 2013 was utilized by the well-connected wealth supervisor and his accountant, Richard Kahn, till Epstein died in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019, “for activities unknown and unexplained to Jane Doe.”
“[E]veryone knew or should have known at least after 2006 that Epstein was running a sex-trafficking scheme paying many victims with enormous amounts of cash as well as suspicions wire transfers, and that he was using loyal employees to do so,” the go well with reads.
“To the extent Bank of America could publicly feign plausible deniability before Epstein’s arrest in 2006, thereafter its ability to play dumb was eviscerated, as the details of his daily sexual abuse of young females came to public light and when he ultimately was required to register as a sex offender.”
The allegations mirror these introduced in related actions in opposition to JPMorgan Chase, which agreed to pay $290 million to not less than 100 victims of Epstein in a settlement reached in June 2023, and Deutsche Financial institution, which agreed to accept $75 million the identical yr.
Initially Revealed: October 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM EDT
