Column: Jeffrey Epstein reaches from the grave to expose how JPMorgan profited from his sex trafficking

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Simply put, children's safety depends on Wall Street executives following the law.
46% : The territory is seeking a penalty of at least $150 million to give JPMorgan, not to mention other banks, the economic incentive in the future "to place compliance with the law and prevention of trafficking ahead of its own profits.
45% : The territory has brought the suit, says Ariel Smith, its attorney general, to "put Wall Street's executives on notice that they can no longer profit from or participate in human trafficking, and they must report its signs as federal law requires.
42% : That these were "suspicious" as defined by the federal disclosure law is hardly subject to question, since so many of the bank's own executives knew it.
40% : Prior to the settlement, Rakoff found that trial could proceed on allegations that the banks "knowingly benefited from participating" in Epstein's sex-trafficking," obstructed enforcement of the antitrafficking law, and "negligently failed to exercise reasonable care" in their banking operations to prevent injury to the victims.
39% : The Virgin Islands asserts that JPMorgan -- and Deutsche Bank, which took on Epstein as a client after Morgan dumped him in 2013 -- obstructed the law, in part by failing to promptly file "suspicious activity reports" with banking authorities; had the banks followed the rules, the territory says, government authorities might have been alerted to Epstein's crimes much sooner than they were.

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