NEW YORK (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co is seeking documents from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg as part of a lawsuit against the bank by women who say they were abused by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, court records showed on Thursday.
Bragg took part in a May 16 telephone conference in the case alongside lawyers for the victims, the bank, former JPMorgan private banking chief Jes Staley and the U.S. Virgin Islands, where Epstein had a home, the Manhattan federal court records showed.
U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff instructed Bragg to provide JPMorgan with a privilege log – or a description of documents the bank was seeking that he is withholding – by Friday. Further details on the reasons for Bragg’s participation were not immediately clear.
A spokesperson for Bragg did not immediately respond to a request for comment. JPMorgan was not immediately available for comment.
JPMorgan’s request came to light after Deutsche Bank AG agreed to pay $75 million to settle a lawsuit by women who accused the German bank of facilitating Epstein’s sex trafficking.
(Reporting by Luc Cohen in New York; Additional reporting by Nupur Anand; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Daniel Wallis)
