Jes Staley told the House Oversight Committee he fed Jeffrey Epstein JPMorgan's confidential information through the autumn of 2008 — the bank's communications with the Federal Reserve, the $44 billion that landed in his private bank in a fortnight, his own salary, the deals he was running. Asked whether he had ever shared confidential bank information with Epstein, Staley answered: "Yes." Asked whether he regretted it, he said no. Lawmakers released all 201 pages Wednesday. His defense: "as a senior officer of the bank, I've got the right to use confidential information where I think it's appropriate." His own emails, filed in federal court by JPMorgan, say the rest. On October 10, 2008, dealing with the Fed on a rescue idea, Staley asked Epstein — then in the Palm Beach County Stockade — to come and help him think. "Can I get you out for a weekend to help me? (Are they listening?)"
Louis Capozzi filed for twelve Republican-led states in Boston Thursday, fighting the League of Women Voters' emergency bid to stop the Postal Service running Donald Trump's mail-ballot rules through the midterms. Stephen Pezzi filed the administration's opposition that morning. Both made Judge Indira Talwani's noon deadline. Talwani entered an injunction August 11, found the administration violated it Tuesday while imposing no penalty, then vacated it Wednesday at the government's request. Sophia Lin Lakin refiled the same day. Talwani hears argument September 3. The Postal Service enforces the rule until she rules.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked Samoa's prime minister in January 2019 to study the MMR vaccine, writing "vaccine" eight times. Six years later he told Sen. Ron Wyden the trip had "nothing to do with vaccines." The Guardian and the AP published that letter this morning. Kennedy sat unsworn. Months after his visit, measles killed 83 Samoans. This week two unvaccinated Lancaster County residents died, one an infant. Kennedy calls the reporting defamatory.
Preston Parra posted a swastika and an image of himself in Klan robes he made with Grok's AI. Mike Collins's leadership PAC paid him $7,700 — the fifth man around Collins tied to Nazi or white-supremacist material. The watchdog's report puts the intern's pay at $10,288.44 — twice what the Post reported.
Trump's accounts bought Boeing stock on June 18. The Navy handed Boeing $880 million the same day, uncompeted. Both dates sit in documents the president signed and the Pentagon published. Boeing's stock then fell.
Kennedy told two senators his Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines. He had already written Samoa's prime minister asking to study the MMR shot, and used the word eight times. Staley spent years denying Jeffrey Epstein was a friend, and JPMorgan's own lawyers filed the emails where he handed Epstein the bank's business through the crash and asked him for help with the Fed. Trump swore his June trading true, complete and correct on August 12, and the Navy handed Boeing $880 million on the day his accounts bought the stock. Kennedy still runs American health. Trump still commands the Navy. Talwani gets the next document. She hears the ballot case on September 3, and the Postal Service runs Trump's rule until she does. Election officials mail military ballots on September 19.
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Narativ special — 6 PM ET. Zev takes the 201 pages Staley gave Congress.
Epstein spent October 2009 writing Staley a China strategy for JPMorgan. Eleven months later Staley emailed him a debrief of two hours with the Communist Party minister who picked China's leaders. Zev published those emails last November in How a Convicted Sex Offender Advised JPMorgan on China Strategy.
