JPMorgan: V.I. trying to block release of embarrassing Epstein does By SUZANNE CARLSON Daily News Staff ST. THOMAS — The V.I. gover- ment is refusing to disclose certain public records, according to a new filing by an attorney •npresenting JPMorgan Chase bank. who says the records are not confidential, but are embarrassing to gov- ernment officials who dealt with Jeffrey Epstein. The bank is euntraly defending against a lawsuit by the VI. government,' which claims that employees kept Ep- stein on as a client despite his suspicious cash transactions, and naxlia reports that he had been sexually abusing underage girls. The bank% lawyers have fired back with claims that VI. government o0lcials were aware of Epstein% activities, but failed to hold him accountable for the 20 years he lived in the territory before his August 2019 suicide while awaiting trial on new charges. On Monday, attorney Linda Singer fled a memorandum on behalf of the V.I. government that included exhibits with partially redacted entails and com- munications between bank officials, dis- cussing how to manage the fallout from Epstein's criminal activity, and whether to keep him on as a client lie bank's lawyers have been try- ing to file similar exhibits publicly since May 23, but are currently blocked by the government% confidentiality claims, ac- cording to a letter from JPNIagan Chase attorney Felecia Ellsworth to Judge Jed Rakoff, which was also filed Monday "Yet, although USVI lacks any basis to maintain confidentiality over the ex- hibits cited in that filing, it has Rinsed to withdraw its confidentiality designations, thereby requiring this Court% interaen- Cal, according to Ellsworth. Ellsworth% next sentence included several redactions, but hinted at the con- tans of the sealed exhibits: 'Specifically, USVI has asserted confidentiality over public records reflecting embarrassing communication [redacted] that reveal the USVI% [rodacted) and its abject