The U.S. Virgin Islands asked a U.S. court to order Barclays Plc to turn over documents related to the relationship its former chief executive officer Jes Staley had with sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The U.S. territory is seeking the documents for use in a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase & Co., which it accuses of “turning a blind eye” to Epstein’s sex-trafficking on his private island.
USVI said the evidence it has requested from Barclays will help the court resolve its JPMorgan suit. Barclays produced documents to the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority in 2021 as part of a probe into Epstein’s relationship with Staley, a former JPMorgan senior executive who left the bank in 2013 to join Barclays.
