Jamie Dimon, the longtime chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, will be interviewed under oath over his bank’s decision to retain the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as a client, according to people familiar with the matter.
The sworn deposition, due to take place behind closed doors in May, is the latest development in two high-profile cases brought against the largest US bank by an alleged Epstein victim and the US Virgin Islands, where the disgraced financier had a home.
The lawsuits claim that JPMorgan, which banked Epstein for 15 years from 1998 to 2013, benefited from human trafficking and ignored several internal warnings about their client’s illegal behaviour. The lender has described the claims as meritless.