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In reply to the discussion: DOJ tells Republicans that Epstein files even worse for Trump than they thought: report [View all]AZJonnie
(2,299 posts)Depending on severity of the claim, awards between mid-6 to low-7 digits. The estate also paid the USVI on the order of $135M, with $10M allocated towards mental health services for survivors. The USVI also sued (and settled with) JPMC for $75M, and Leon Black (Epstein associate) for about $20M. A victims group also sued (and settled without going to trial) JPMC for $290M because they failed to follow regulations and report Epstein's suspicious cash withdrawals that the victims allege was used to pay them. Also one of their employees Jes Staley was handling Epstein's account and emails uncovered showed they had some weirdly coded, seemingly sexually related discussion, and that people higher in the organization seemed to know Epstein was into teen girls and ignoring it so they could keep managing his millions.
These victims have been well-paid, many are multi-millionaires, and there's been a lot of court cases already. Now they want to also go after some other banks (like the one that had been run by a Mellon family scion) for similar reasons, but I think again it will likely be settled rather than litigated, as all the others were. Well, they all were aside from Giuffre's 2015 case against Maxwell, which is literally the only solid evidence that a girl was 'shared' by Epstein with others, and is in fact the genesis of the whole "pedo cabal" conspiracy theory
I don't hold out much hope that any civil suit is likely to bring out new incriminating evidence, esp. not against Trump. These banks are just rolling over because they don't want the bad press brought by fighting Epstein victims, and because they don't want it exposed that they looked the other way because they were greedy, and even broke reporting requirements.
Maybe I'm proven wrong in these suppositions though. Here's to hoping we get the full truth someday!