Senate Democrat questions Chase CEO Jamie Dimon about Epstein transactions

Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News on Oct 20, 2025

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A senior Senate Democrat Monday raised fresh questions with JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon about the giant bank’s handling of its longstanding ties to notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), the top Democrat on the finance committee, ripped Dimon in a new letter for blowing off his previous requests for extensive disclosure about the bank’s lucrative relationship to Epstein and why it resisted baring details of its cozy ties with the accused sex trafficker for years.

He rejected Chase’s claim this month that only a single bank exec knew that the bank should have reported more than $1 billion in Epstein’s suspicious transactions to federal regulators much earlier than it did.

“It is not credible to suggest that one employee, no matter how senior, could be responsible for a compliance disaster of this scale,” Wyden wrote to Dimon.

The letter repeated Wyden’s demands for 25 separate tranches of communications from Chase executives detailing their handling of the Epstein matter.

He chided Dimon for ignoring the same requests in a letter sent last month and reminded the banking titan that he has promised to come clean and cooperate with a congressional probe into Epstein, who committed suicide while awaiting trial in 2019.

“The victims of Epstein’s abuse and the American public deserve answers on the role major U.S. banks played in enabling Epstein’s crimes,” Wyden said. “Much remains unknown about the extent to which the JPMC leadership may have turned a blind eye to Epstein’s criminal conduct.”

Wyden also called on Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to release what he said could be a huge number of financial documents related to the Epstein case.

President Trump once called for the Epstein files to be released in full. But in recent months he has reversed course and refused to do so, calling the sex trafficking scandal a Democratic hoax.

Epstein was a longtime Chase client. The bank jettisoned him in 2013 after he was initially hit with state sex charges.

But it failed to send reports of suspicious transactions to federal prosecutors for six years, a delay Wyden and others say warrants further investigation.

Chase responded to the initial Wyden letter by insisting it did nothing wrong and knew nothing about his crimes.

It suggested that former executive Jes Staley was the only key figure at the bank who may have acted improperly.

“The firm deeply regrets having had Epstein as a client and would never have continued doing business with him if it believed he engaged in ongoing criminal conduct,” the bank said in an Oct. 10 statement addressed to Wyden.