Red flags were raised about the sex offender’s activity since the early 2000s — but the bank continued with him for years after his arrest
Ramsay Hodgson in London and Joshua Franklin in New York
As an Arctic storm blasted New York City with snow drifts and sent temperatures as low as 15 degrees below freezing, two unknown 18-year-old “models” walked into a Chase branch on Manhattan’s 2nd Avenue.
It was January 2004, barely three years after JPMorgan had merged with Chase. The women, one a US citizen and the other from Slovakia, asked for checking accounts and credit cards with a limit of $2,500. An initial deposit of $3,000 for each was expected.
Their guarantor? Jeffrey Epstein.
