The wife of a Democrat governor is accused of helping pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in his alleged sex trafficking scheme, according to reports.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that JPMorgan Chase released emails between Epstein and former First Lady Cecile de Jongh, wife of then-U.S. Virgin Islands Gov. John de Jongh Jr., who was “an office manager for the convicted sex offender’s businesses in the U.S. territory.”
The U.S. Virgin Islands sued JPMorgan Chase last year on the grounds that by allowing the deceased pedophile to use their bank, which gave him access to the financial system, they had assisted in his crimes’ facilitation.
The U.S. Virgin Islands allegedly “protected Epstein, fostering the perfect conditions for Epstein’s criminal conduct to continue undetected. Rather than stop him, they helped him.”
The bank claimed that while her husband served as governor, de Jongh oversaw Epstein’s operations on the island and assisted him in dealing with local officials and law enforcement.
She also allegedly requested that Epstein donate money to Democrat Stacey Plaskett’s congressional campaign, which Plaskett later won as a delegate to Congress.
In response to the report, a spokesperson for the island’s attorney general claimed that JPMorgan Chase “cherry-picked” facts to distract from its own legal problems.
“JPMorgan Chase has cherry-picked and mischaracterized Epstein’s interactions with U.S. Virgin Islands officials and residents in an attempt to distract and shift blame away from its role in facilitating Jeffrey Epstein’s heinous crimes,” the spokesperson said.
This comes after new documents revealed that Epstein met with top officers from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) before his death.
Epstein had planned meetings with a number of prominent individuals, including CIA Director William Burns, Bard College president Leon Botstein, former White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler, and professor Noam Chomsky.
All of the meetings were planned to take place after Epstein was imprisoned in 2008 on solicitation-related charges, including soliciting a minor. The purpose of the meetings was not made clear in the documents, and the news outlet was unable to prove that each scheduled meeting actually took place.
The documents further showed that the majority of people they spoke to said they met with Epstein for donations or to make powerful connections.
