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Jed S. Rakoff

Jed S. Rakoff

United States District Judge, Southern District of New York

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Banks that served Epstein have now paid over half a billion dollars to trafficking survivors

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Presiding over Epstein bank lawsuits

Bank of America agreed to pay $72.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging it provided banking services to Jeffrey Epstein while ignoring obvious signs of his trafficking operation — including processing more than $170 million in payments from billionaire Leon Black without filing a single suspicious activity report until after Epstein's death. The settlement, which requires judicial approval, follows the same legal playbook that extracted $290 million from JPMorgan Chase and $75 million from Deutsche Bank in 2023.

Updated 2 hours ago