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As JPMorgan compliance officials tried to boot Jeffrey Epstein as a client over the years because of his sex crimes against children, bank executives apparently resisted because he brought in new business—including wealthy clients like Google founder Sergey Brin.
According to bombshell legal filings, Epstein introduced JPMorgan honcho Jes Staley to Google co-creators Brin and Larry Page by 2003. By 2011, the sex-trafficker was considered the “biggest revenue producer” for JPMorgan’s Private Bank and known as “the advisor to the Google founders,” according to the document filed by the U.S. Virgin Islands government. Brin’s relationship with the Private Bank brought in more than $4 billion, one memorandum states.
Epstein also referred ultra-wealthy clients to JPMorgan including billionaires Glenn Dubin, Bill Gates, Leon Black, Mort Zuckerman and Thomas Pritzker, the USVI says. The legal filing says other Epstein referrals included Gates confidant Boris Nikolic, ex-Harvard president Larry Summers, the Sultan of Dubai, Britain’s Prince Andrew, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, UK politician Lord Peter Mandelson, and former White House advisor David Gergen. (A spokesperson for Gates previously told The Daily Beast, however, that the Microsoft tycoon was “never” a JPMorgan client.)