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Went to the Virgin Islands last week and it was magical. My first tropical vacation. So beautiful and calm. I had a great time🏝️

March 11th, 2024

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JPMorgan Settles Jeffrey Epstein Case For $75 Million, Avoiding Trial by Tyler Durden - Tuesday, Sep 26, 2023 - 11:25 AM

JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay the US Virgin Islands (USVI) a scant $75 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that the bank knowingly aided Jeffrey Epstein's underage sex-trafficking operation, ending a legal battle that exposed all sorts of embarrassing ties between the bank and the dead pedophile.

The settlement was reached one month before the sides were scheduled to go to trial in Manhattan, where the USVI sought $190 million from the bank.

JPMorgan admitted no wrongdoing in the settlement.

Earlier this month we learned that JPMorgan flagged over $1 billion in suspicious transactions linked to Epstein, which they claimed to have reported to the US government, according to a filing by the USVI.

"JPMorgan was a full-service bank for Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking," said Mimi Liu, an attorney for the USVI, which said that the enormous sum bolsters key allegations in their legal action against the bank. According to the lawsuit, JPMorgan knowingly benefited from Epstein's wrongdoing, Bloomberg reports, noting that this is the first time in the case that the 'sheer volume of Epstein's financial activity at JPMorgan over a 16-year period has been disclosed.'

The suspicious activity was detailed in a 2019 filing to the US Department of Treasury, according to the lawsuit. The report was made after Epstein died in a Manhattan jail cell a month after his arrest on sex trafficking charges. Epstein had been with the bank from the late 1990s through 2013, when they finally cut ties with him.

Epstein notoriously trafficked some of his victims to a private island in the USVI.

JPMorgan denies that it let Epstein's activities slide, and says it reported around 150 cash transactions to a federal regulator between 2002 and 2013.

Last month, the USVI told the judge in the case that the bank facilitated over $1.1 million in payments from Jeffrey Epstein to "girls or women," many of whom had Eastern European surnames.

Over $320,000 of the payments were made to "numerous individuals for whom JPMorgan had no previously identified payments," according to USVI attorney, Linda Singer, who accused the bank of failing to disclose the payments until after the end of discovery - the period in which parties in a lawsuit exchange evidence.

The bank claimed that's irrelevant, because the USVI doesn't have legal standing to claim JPMorgan obstructed a trafficking investigation because it wasn't a victim.

"The only reason that JPMorgan after 16 years reported the $1 billion in suspicious transactions was because he was arrested and then he was dead," singer added.

In June, former PMorgan Chase executive Jes Staley threw CEO Jamie Dimon under the bus over the bank's relationship with Epstein - claiming in legal documents that he and Dimon communicated about the convicted sex offender.

Epstein died in jail following his 2019 arrest on federal sex-trafficking charges. The pedophile, who became a JPMorgan client around 1998 - bringing the bank hundreds of millions of dollars, formed a close bond with Staley, who eventually oversaw JPMorgan's investment bank.

According to the filing, Staley says that he and Dimon communicated when Epstein was arrested in 2006 and 2008 when Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution, and served 13 months in a work-release program. Staley also claims that Dimon communicated with him several times through 2012 about whether to maintain Epstein as a client.

In one July 2010 email exchange between Staley and Epstein, Staley discussed 'Disney princesses' with Epstein.

"That was fun," Staley allegedly wrote to Epstein. "Say hi to Snow White."

To which Epstein replied: "[W]hat character would you like next?"

"Beauty and the Beast."

Epstein also emailed Staley photos of young women in seductive poses, the filing continued, with the USVI alleging that the exchange referred to young women and girls procured by Epstein.

Staley, according to the filing, "visited Epstein’s properties in the Virgin Islands and elsewhere," and "exchanged hundreds of messages with Epstein from his JPMorgan email account in full view of JPMorgan, including some with photos of young women, discussed Epstein’s provision of services to him during his travel on dates that closely corresponded with Epstein’s payments to the same young woman from his JPMorgan accounts, and discussed young women or girls procured by Epstein using the names of Disney princesses."

Epstein and Staley exchanged more than 1,200 emails over several years. Staley - who left JPMorgan to become CEO of Barclays two years later, stepped down from the latter in 2021 following a UK Financial Conduct Authority probe into his relationship with the pedophile financier.

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Miss Grand US Virgin Islands 2023 National Costume

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Charlotte Amalie - US Virgin Islands (by Sean Davis) 

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Mysterious blue goo

A close-up of one of a mysterious “blue goo” creature.

Scientists were left scratching their heads after they found mysterious gooey creatures on the seafloor surrounding St. Croix, one of the U.S. Virgin Islands.

(Image credit: NOAA Ocean Exploration, Voyage to the Ridge 2022)

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Map of Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands.

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U.S. Virgin Islands Tourism, 1983

Theme Week: Travel 🌎

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St. Thomas, USVI.

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Feast your eyes on this stunning expanse of the bluest waters and vibrant skies at St. John in the US Virgin Islands National Park. It's a slice of paradise where the hues of blue seem to dance together in perfect harmony.

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Views from the Caribbean

A sunset over the ocean

San Felipe Fort, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic

Taino Bay, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic

Long Bay, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands

Cane Garden Bay, Tortola, British Virgin Islands

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Watch This Amazing Landing At Cyril E. King - US Virgin Islands - Spirit...

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Andrew Tate Story WAS HOAX, Trans Activist LIED About Greta Thunberg Story

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Postcards from Snagglepuss

Now THIS is snorkelling, and then some!

LIMEHOUSE BAY, VIRGIN ISLANDS NATIONAL PARK, ST. JOHN, US VIRGIN ISLANDS: Is it any wonder that the United States Virgin Islands can get to be rather interesting diving country, even in parts of Virgin Islands National Park, occupying as it does a substantial part of St. John island (including some 40% of St. John's offshore waters, nearshore even)?

Yet what's especially fascinating is that, save for mooring fees at designated locations, Virgin Islands National Park is one of only a few National Park Service lands as doesn't charge entrance fee. Which made it especially worthwhile, allowing for a shore excursion seeking out the ruins of sugar plantations which once fuelled the local economy--howbeit for the Danish West Indies Company, which relied on slave labour all the more just to stay viable. Brings a tear to your eyes, does it not? Let alone the scent of bay leaves, and their eventually being distilled into bay rum, quite a potent aftershave, if I may say so!

But to the diving experience: You can't help but sense some sort of ecstatic feeling when you're in the water ... when you're snorkelling, even. in such interesting waters like those of Limehouse Bay. A Park Service ranger who has some snorkelling expertise himself helped explain some of the more worthwhile dive spots, and some of the reefs more fascinating--even if he was rather stunned at first by our appearance, as well as learning just how interested Peter Potamus was in diving, to begin with!

Enough even for Squiddly Diddly, the Magic Divers' photographic expert (particularly so in the underwater arena), to come up with several photographs, candid and otherwise, of all of us in the Limehouse Bay reef. Yet trying to find a patch of sand so that a kneeling group shot of us took some effort; after all, from experience, coral can be rather potent, and can scratch if you're not careful enough.

How else, then, could diving not be irresistable?

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