NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Virgin Islands said it wants JPMorgan Chase to pay $150 million in civil penalties plus additional damages to resolve a lawsuit accusing the largest U.S. bank of ignoring the disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking.
The dollar amount was provided in a filing on Friday in federal court in Manhattan. The U.S. Virgin Islands had not previously disclosed publicly any particular sum it wanted JPMorgan to pay.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; editing by Jonathan Oatis)
