Bernie Madoff & Jeffrey Epstein

Spies, lies, sex tapes and JPMorgan

As I sit here working on wrapping up Part Three of my Jarecki Family Secrets series, I found myself re-reading internal email exchanges between JPMorgan Chase top-level executives Mary Erodes and Jes Staley. These were included in the lawsuit brought against the banking giant by the U.S. Virgin Island who slammed them for aiding in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking.

Among the email exchange is a reference to another infamous client of theirs—Bernie Madoff (April 29, 1938 – April 14, 2021). Madoff is known for running the largest (and longest-running) Ponzi scheme in American history.

By late November 2008 Madoff—whose bank was JPMorgan—realized he didn’t have enough funds to send out that month’s payments. On December 3, he told longtime assistant Frank DiPascali, who had overseen the fraudulent advisory business, that he was finished. On December 9, he told his brother Peter about the fraud and finally he told his family. By December 11 Madoff was arrested and charged with securities fraud.

The email sent from Erodes asking Staley to “get intel from Epstein” was sent at this point in time.

HERE’S WHAT I KNOW

Mary Erodes came into my visual field in 2008—after Madoff’s arrest. This is because I was contacted by a high ranking CIA official who befriended me. At the time I kept an online blog about Ira Riklis and some of the things that happened to me. It was an effort to keep myself alive—to thwart another murder attempt—since by then there had been three. “Shogun” was his code name, but he had to use his real name because I was already suspicious of strangers being inserted into my life…