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Cecile de Jongh

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tagsperson, virgin-islands, epstein-employee, financial-trust-company, southern-trust-company
aliasesCecile R. de Jongh, Cecile DeJongh, Cecile R. De-Jongh, Cecile Rene Galiber

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RolesVice President and Secretary of Financial Trust Company, Inc. from September 21, 2007; in her own words its office manager12
Southern TrustAuthorized signatory on a Southern Trust Company, Inc. account at FirstBank Puerto Rico, opened February 22, 20133
AlsoVice President and Trustee, J. Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation, Inc. (a/k/a Enhanced Education), to February 29, 20124
SpouseJohn Percy de Jongh, Jr., inaugurated Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands on January 1, 2007; his term ended in January 201556
CompensationSalary of $110,000 a year, 2009–2013; total annual packages of $186,172 to $236,5147
Deutsche Bank Exhibit P$200,000 wire from Southern Trust Company, Inc., December 29, 20156
LitigationAn excerpt of an earlier deposition of de Jongh was filed as an exhibit in Government of the United States Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., No. 22-cv-10904 (S.D.N.Y.)8

Cecile R. de Jongh was an officer and the office manager of Jeffrey Epstein’s Financial Trust Company, Inc. and an authorized signatory on an account of his Southern Trust Company, Inc., and is married to John P. de Jongh, Jr., who was inaugurated Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands on January 1, 2007 and whose term ended in January 2015.12356 Corporate records elected her Vice President and Secretary of Financial Trust Company on September 21, 2007, and she was an authorized signatory on company bank accounts at FirstBank Puerto Rico.19 She also served as Vice President and a Trustee of Epstein’s Virgin Islands foundation until February 29, 2012.4 In a February 2011 email to a territorial official she wrote, “You are probably aware that I work for Financial Trust Company, Inc. which is run and owned by Jeffrey Epstein.”10 Deutsche Bank’s September 12, 2019 presentation to the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York listed a $200,000 wire to her from Southern Trust Company, Inc. dated December 29, 2015 among “Notable Payments to High Profile Individuals.”6 In a May 2023 filing in the Virgin Islands government’s suit against JPMorgan Chase, the bank alleged that she was “Epstein’s primary conduit for spreading money and influence throughout the USVI government”; an excerpt of an earlier deposition of hers, filed as an exhibit in the same case, records her testimony that she confronted Epstein after his 2006 arrest and believed his account of it.118

Financial Trust Company and Southern Trust Company

Officer positions

A unanimous consent of the directors of Financial Trust Company, Inc. dated September 21, 2007 selected Darren K. Indyke as President, Cecile De Jongh and Jeanne Brennan as Vice Presidents, Jeanne Brennan as Treasurer and Cecile De Jongh as Secretary; the signature block carries the names of Indyke, De Jongh and Jeanne Brennan.1 Two further copies of the same consent, produced by JPMorgan Chase under different Bates numbers, carry the same date and the same officer list; their optical character recognition of the officer names is degraded and they are not independent confirmation of the names.12

Bank signatory

FirstBank Puerto Rico’s March 9, 2020 response to a federal grand jury subpoena lists “JEFFREY EPSTEIN” and “CECILE R DE-JONGH” as the authorized signatories on a Financial Trust Company, Inc. commercial checking account opened May 1, 2001 and closed July 2, 2013.9 The same response lists two other Financial Trust commercial checking accounts, one opened February 5, 2002 and closed July 11, 2013 with Epstein and Darren K. Indyke as signatories, and one opened February 3, 2010 and closed June 4, 2013 with Indyke and Epstein as signatories.9 A Southern Trust Company, Inc. commercial checking account opened February 22, 2013 lists four authorized signatories: Indyke, “CECILE DEJONGH,” Jeanne Brennan-Wiebracht and Epstein.3

JPMorgan authorizations and cards

On March 8, 2010, de Jongh signed a unanimous consent of the directors of Financial Trust Company authorizing Darren K. Indyke, as President, “to open and fully operate banking, custody, and brokerage accounts at J.P. Morgan,” with power to “delegate full operational authority over banking, custody, and brokerage accounts to other employees, officers, or agents of the Corporation.”13 Indyke and Jeanne Brennan also signed; JPMorgan Chase produced the document to the Southern District of New York.13

A March 22, 2013 email from a JPMorgan private bank vice president records that “the Epstein office has agreed to reallocate the credit limits on the various CC’s” and sets out a proposed structure for Southern Trust Company, Inc.: a master account limit of $50,000, with individual limits of $25,000 for Epstein, $15,000 for “Cecile DeJongh” and a smaller limit for a third employee.14 A JPMorgan Chase billing statement for the cycle of February 4 to March 3, 2014, addressed to Jeffrey Epstein and Southern Trust Company, shows a card in de Jongh’s name, “CECILE DE JONGH / TRANSACTIONS THIS CYCLE (CARD 8427) $471.75”, alongside cards in the names of Epstein and another employee.15

Compensation

An internal table headed “Salary and Benefit History” for the years 2009 to 2013 shows de Jongh’s salary at $110,000 in each of the five years and a $10,000 bonus in 2012, with further line items for health insurance, a retirement-plan contribution, payroll taxes and tuition assistance for her children; the annual totals run from $186,172 to $236,514.7 A December 21, 2011 email from de Jongh to Epstein setting out “the one month gross salary for each person” for eight employees, totalling $44,000, lists her own at $8,000 a month.16 The two figures cover overlapping years and do not reconcile: $8,000 a month is $96,000 a year against the table’s $110,000.716 On September 25, 2013 de Jongh emailed Epstein under the subject “Thank you very much…” with the body line “for the salary increase.”17

A schedule of Southern Trust Company, Inc. payments giving the “Purpose/reason for each payment” records a payroll disbursement of $7,167.80 to “Cecile R. de Jongh” on December 20, 2018, with the stated purpose “Employee Year-end Bonus”; three other employees received year-end bonuses in the same two days.18

Wind-down of Financial Trust Company, 2012

On February 1, 2012 de Jongh emailed Epstein under the subject “Private and Confidential”: “Please see below a rough draft of a termination letter. I would like to send this on to Erika Kellerhals for her review and edits given that she knows what was said to the EDC.”19 The draft letter reads in part:19

In response to the realities of a deteriorating economy, we have determined that layoffs at Financial Trust Company, Inc. ( the “Company”) are necessary. As a result the Company is reducing its workforce due to the need to reduce operating costs.

Regrettably, your position with the Company must be eliminated and you will be laid off effective as of today, February 3, 2012.19

It offered earned salary, accrued vacation and three months of severance in return for a signed acknowledgment that the payment was “in full satisfaction of all obligations to you” and that “the provisions of the confidentiality agreement you signed when you commenced employment remain in full force and effect.”19 De Jongh later told Epstein that Financial Trust “ceased operations in March, 2012.”20

2016 loan from Southern Trust Company

On October 14, 2016 de Jongh wrote to Richard Kahn of HBRK Associates, Inc. about repaying a loan she owed Southern Trust Company, Inc., saying she had spoken to Epstein about how to pay it back and that he had told her to speak with Kahn; of the balance, she wrote, Epstein had said “we will figure something out.”21 Kahn forwarded the message to Epstein the same evening with four alternative ways of settling the debt, three of them by deduction from her pay and one a lump sum in 2017, asking Epstein to “please advise.”21 Kahn’s note also recorded a bi-weekly pay figure of $7,115.38 for de Jongh, which over twenty-six pay periods is about $185,000 a year; the annual salary figure written beside it is damaged by the same loss of characters and cannot be read from the document.21

J. Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation (Enhanced Education)

On February 29, 2012, de Jongh signed a letter to the board of the J. Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation, Inc.: “The undersigned, Cecile de Jongh, hereby resigns as a Trustee and the Vice President of The J. Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation, Inc., a Virgin Islands not-for-profit corporation, a/k/a Enhanced Education, effective as of February 29, 2012.”4 Jeanne Brennan resigned as Trustee, Treasurer and Secretary the same day, and Darren K. Indyke as President effective March 1, 2012.4 A consent of the sole remaining trustee, signed by Indyke and dated as of March 1, 2012, appointed Jeffrey E. Epstein and the attorney Erika Kellerhals as trustees; a further consent of the same date appointed Epstein as President, Indyke as Vice President and Kellerhals as Treasurer and Secretary.2223

Work for Epstein during the governorship

Arranging access to territorial officials

In February 2011 de Jongh corresponded with a territorial official, whose name is redacted in the production, to set up a meeting with Epstein.10 Her opening email of February 9, 2011 reads: “You are probably aware that I work for Financial Trust Company, Inc. which is run and owned by Jeffrey Epstein. Mr. Epstein also owns Little St. James Island. He would very much like to meet to explain his overall plan for the island.”10 Over the following week she rescheduled the meeting twice, telling the official on February 15 that “Mr. Epstein is willing to fly to STX to meet with you on Friday,” and the official proposed times around a cabinet meeting.10

Economic Development Commission audit, 2014

On February 4, 2014 de Jongh forwarded Epstein two Financial Trust Company compliance reports sent by the Virgin Islands Economic Development Authority, covering January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2008 and January 1, 2009 to March 23, 2013.20 She wrote that she had spoken to an official at the authority “about the fact that we were never notified that we were being audited and never received a letter,” that “[w]e were operating under the original certificate for all of 2009 because we did not know what the terms of the renewal were until October of 2010,” that “[t]hey are also holding us to a complete year in 2012 when we ceased operations in March, 2012,” and that “[w]e got no phone call, no visit and no correspondence accept the letters we received this afternoon.”20 Epstein replied the next morning: “what does he propose, this is not right.”20

Fundraising for the Governor’s final reception, 2014

On January 24, 2014 de Jongh wrote to Epstein: “I have been fundraising for John’s final State of the Territory reception on Monday night. I have raised $15K of the total $35K budget. Would you be willing to match that? John and I will cover the balance.”24 Epstein replied “yes.”24 De Jongh then asked Richard Kahn of HBRK Associates to “prepare a check for $15,000 made payable to Governor’s Special Events Fund,” and Kahn forwarded the request to Epstein asking him to “confirm that this is to be paid from JEE personal account.”24

Legislative matters, 2012

In an exchange of July 29 and 30, 2012, Epstein thanked de Jongh for “keeping a close watch” on a matter before the territorial legislature, said that “we will have to go for an amendment soon,” and wrote that he did not want to alienate an official who had the ear of a senator.25 De Jongh replied “Will do,” and said it was not that official’s style to raise the matter with the senator.25 Epstein wrote back that the official had spoken at a hearing without notice, had not returned calls, and had changed a letter after agreeing its terms.25

Meeting with the Governor, November 2014

On Sunday, November 23, 2014 de Jongh emailed office staff under the subject line “Meeting Monday, November 24th”: “JE has a meeting scheduled tomorrow, Monday, November 25th at 12:30 PM at STC with Governor de Jongh.”26 The body and the subject line of the message give different dates; November 24, 2014 was a Monday and November 25 a Tuesday.26

Press inquiry about the 2014 New Mexico contributions

On September 10, 2014 de Jongh emailed Epstein under the subject “AP Call”: “Barry Massey from the AP called here for you yesterday re Gary King. We just took a message.”27 See Gary King.

Sex offender registration legislation, 2011–2012

On May 15, 2011, de Jongh forwarded Epstein proposed statutory language for the territory’s sex offender registration law with the note “See suggested language below.”28 The forwarded message, from a sender whose name is redacted, said that waiving the notice requirement altogether would not be acceptable to the federal Department of Justice program managers and offered suggested language; the attached text would have required an offender travelling out of the United States more than three times in twelve months to seek a waiver from the Attorney General.28 Epstein replied: “We should add out of country for more than 7 days, otherwise I could not go for a day trip to Tortola, at the last minute.”28 De Jongh answered, “I will forward this suggestion and let you know,” and Epstein replied that two of his advisers should “opine.”28

In a July 1, 2012 email discussing the bill, de Jongh told Epstein that the week had gone badly but that “all is not lost,” and said they would come up with a plan to get around the obstacles; she wrote that this would mean working through two senators and, in the meantime, with the territory’s attorney general on the treatment of his registration obligations.2911 Epstein replied the same morning that an assumption they had made about one of the legislators needed to be rethought.29

On May 21, 2015, after her husband had left office, de Jongh forwarded Epstein a letter from the Virgin Islands Department of Justice under the subject “Fw: Letter from VI Dept of Justice,” with the attachment “Sex Offender Ltr 5.13.15.pdf” and the message “Please see the attached letter for the VI DOJ.” She added that the letter had arrived in the mail that day.306

Journalist inquiries

The Daily Beast, 2011

On August 30, 2011 a research assistant in the office of the reporter Wayne Barrett emailed Financial Trust Company’s general account: “We are working on a story about business and politics in the Virgin Islands with a focus on Jeffrey Epstein. As the wife of the governor and the manager of Financial Trust Company, you were named several times in our story… We would also like to give you the chance to comment on the interplay between your job and the governor’s actions.”31 The message reached de Jongh on September 7 and she forwarded it to Epstein.32 Epstein replied, “please send all mention of me , so that I may review. in writing so that we may avoid conflict in the future, or something like that,” and she answered, “I don’t think I should even open the door to them. I think I should just not respond - it has been a week afterall.”32 Epstein replied “ok.”31

Later the same day de Jongh nonetheless wrote to Barrett’s office: “I have been on an off-island trip. I just received this email as it was sent to a general FTC email account. Can you please elaborate on your request? Feel free to send me the article to review.”33 Barrett replied on September 8 that his publication did not send articles to subjects for review, that the article had gone to the magazine but that changes might still be possible, and asked whether she was available for an interview; he added that his office had approached her husband about speaking to her weeks earlier.33 De Jongh forwarded the exchange to Epstein that evening.33

Tax-benefit inquiry, 2012

On April 10, 2012 the reporter Matthew Boyle sent questions to the Governor’s communications office about Economic Development Commission tax benefits, noting that “at least as of September 13, 2011, Gov. deJongh’s wife is listed in official EDC records as being employed by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s Financial Trust Company, Inc.” and asking whether she still worked for the company and whether “she [had] anything to do with Mr. Epstein’s company getting EDC tax benefits.”2 De Jongh forwarded the questions to Epstein with her answers inserted in capitals: “CECILE DE JONGH CURRENTLY WORKS FOR FINANCIAL TRUST COMPANY IN THE CAPACITY OF OFFICE MANAGER. SHE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH FINANCIAL TRUST COMPANY RECEIVING EDC TAX BENEFITS.”2 Epstein replied, “i would simply state that you are an office manager,” and de Jongh answered, “That’s what John went with.”34

Document retention, December 2014

On December 19, 2014, in the final weeks of her husband’s term, de Jongh emailed Epstein under the subject “Document Retention”: “The document retention policy that we have been operating under is as follows: 1999 through 2006 we shred. 2007 through 2014 we scan and shred.”356 She listed eight companies whose canceled checks, invoices, payroll records, funding requests and correspondence were covered (Little St. James, Financial Trust Company, the J. Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation, Zorro, JEGE, FT Real Estate, Hyperion and NES) and wrote that Financial Trust accounting and partnership documents were to be kept for six years, with “[a]nything before the year 2008” to be shredded.35 She reported that an employee “has shredded approximately 75 bags of documents in addition to scanning the more recent documents that we have set up in a virtual file,” with “about five (5) more plastic bins to shred and nine (9) more file cabinets to scan and shred.”35

December 2015 payment

Exhibit P to Deutsche Bank’s September 12, 2019 presentation to the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, headed “Notable Payments to High Profile Individuals,” lists a payment to “Cecile de Jongh” dated 12/29/2015 in the amount of $200,000, marked “W” for wire, drawn on the account name “Southern Trust Company, Inc.”6 The background column reads: “De Jongh is the former First Lady of the U.S. Virgin Islands. There have been public reports that she worked as an ‘Office Manager’ for Epstein’s companies during her husband’s tenure as Governor. John de Jongh’s term ended in January 2015.”6 The exhibit does not state a purpose for the payment.6

Government of the Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase

In an opposition brief filed on May 25, 2023 in the Virgin Islands government’s suit against JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., the bank alleged that Epstein had bought influence in the territory and that de Jongh had been his principal channel for it.11 The brief alleged that she and other territorial officials visited Epstein’s islands, that she sent him draft sex offender registration language and followed the bill’s progress, and that she forwarded him an exchange between the Governor’s office and the lieutenant governor’s office about banking regulations.11 It further alleged that she assisted with immigration and university-enrolment arrangements for women Epstein brought to the territory.11 The same brief quotes the answer de Jongh proposed to the 2012 press inquiry: that she worked for Financial Trust Company as office manager and “had nothing to do with Financial Trust Company receiving EDC tax benefits.”112

An excerpt of an earlier deposition of de Jongh was filed as an exhibit in the case on July 25, 2023.8 She testified that she learned of Epstein’s 2006 Florida arrest from the news, that she asked him about it (“Sort of, like, what the hell is going on”) and that he told her “it was an error in judgment” and that he had “[m]istook somebody to be older than they were.”8 She said she found him convincing at the time, that she had no further conversations with him about the Florida case, and that she did not hear allegations that he had been bringing young women to Little St. James until 2019, when she emailed Darren Indyke to ask “is there any truth to any of this?” and he answered no.8 Asked what looked different in hindsight, she said, “What I didn’t see, and I guess what I would have looked for were underage girls… I didn’t have an understanding about sex trafficking,” and that she had taken the women she met to be Epstein’s or others’ girlfriends.8 She testified that Indyke had told the office that everything about Epstein’s life was monitored and that staff were not to set up new email addresses for him.8 She said no Virgin Islands law enforcement officer had contacted her about Epstein before his 2019 arrest, that she was not aware of her husband recusing himself from any issue regarding Epstein, and that she was paying her own counsel.8

Named in documents

DocumentDescriptionRelevance
EFTA01584535Financial Trust Company unanimous consent of directors, September 21, 2007 (JPM-SDNY-00064415)Elects de Jongh Vice President and Secretary
EFTA01584527, EFTA01584080Two further copies of the same consent (JPM-SDNY-00064405, -00063906)Same officer list; officer names heavily degraded in OCR
EFTA01584827Financial Trust Company unanimous consent, March 8, 2010 (JPM-SDNY-00064751)Signed by de Jongh; authorizes Indyke to open J.P. Morgan accounts
EFTA00065864FirstBank Puerto Rico response to grand jury subpoena, March 9, 2020Lists de Jongh as an authorized signatory on Financial Trust and Southern Trust accounts
EFTA01583355JPMorgan private bank email, March 22, 2013$15,000 individual card limit for de Jongh on the Southern Trust account
EFTA01586839JPMorgan Chase statement, February–March 2014De Jongh’s card (8427), $471.75 in the cycle
EFTA01957595”Salary and Benefit History 2009 - 2013”$110,000 salary each year; totals $186,172–$236,514
EFTA01992511Email to Epstein, December 21, 2011One-month gross salaries for eight employees; de Jongh at $8,000
EFTA01754747Email to Epstein, September 25, 2013”for the salary increase”
EFTA02446867Kahn to Epstein forwarding de Jongh, October 14, 2016Repayment of a loan she owed Southern Trust Company
EFTA01989609Email to Epstein, February 1, 2012, “Private and Confidential”Draft termination letter for Financial Trust Company employees
EFTA00802367Schedule of Southern Trust Company payments$7,167.80 year-end bonus to de Jongh, December 20, 2018
EFTA00311096Enhanced Education resignations and consents, February–March 2012De Jongh resigns as Trustee and Vice President; Epstein and Kellerhals appointed
EFTA02027935Email chain, February 9–16, 2011”I work for Financial Trust Company, Inc. which is run and owned by Jeffrey Epstein”
EFTA01935290Email exchange with Epstein, February 4–5, 2014Economic Development Authority compliance reports
EFTA01940225Email chain, January 24, 2014$15,000 from Epstein to the Governor’s Special Events Fund
EFTA02090717Email to office staff, November 23, 2014Epstein–Governor meeting at Southern Trust
EFTA01873707Email exchange with Epstein, July 29–30, 2012Territorial legislative matter
EFTA00665968Email chain, May 14–15, 2011Draft sex offender registration language forwarded to Epstein
EFTA01881527Email to Epstein, July 1, 2012Discussion of the registration bill after the vote
EFTA02709015Email to Epstein, May 21, 2015Forwards a Virgin Islands DOJ sex offender letter
EFTA00630939Email to Epstein, September 10, 2014Associated Press call about Gary King
EFTA01988601, EFTA01999327Email chains, September 7, 2011Internal handling of the Daily Beast inquiry
EFTA01990849Email chain, September 7–8, 2011Her reply to Barrett and his answer declining prepublication review
EFTA00933166, EFTA00702259Email chains, April 10, 2012Her answers to Matthew Boyle’s questions
EFTA01748314Email to Epstein, December 19, 2014Document retention and shredding policy
EFTA01681865Deutsche Bank presentation to SDNY, September 12, 2019Exhibit P: $200,000 wire from Southern Trust Company, Inc.
EFTA02807815JPMorgan Chase opposition brief, May 25, 2023Allegations concerning de Jongh
EFTA02812423Deposition excerpt filed July 25, 2023Her testimony

Coverage

  • The Virgin Islands Daily News, May 26, 2023: Suzanne Carlson, “Court filing claims ex-first lady was Epstein’s local fixer,” reporting JPMorgan’s allegations.36

Footnotes

  1. Financial Trust Company, Inc., unanimous consent of directors, September 21, 2007, Bates JPM-SDNY-00064415. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01584535 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  2. Cecile de Jongh to Epstein, “Re: Important - Private and Confidential,” April 10, 2012, forwarding Matthew Boyle’s questions with her answers, and Epstein’s reply. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00933166 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  3. Same production, p.3 (Bates EFTA00065866). https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00065864 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  4. Resignation letters of Cecile de Jongh, Jeanne Brennan and Darren K. Indyke, February 29 and March 1, 2012. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00311096 pp.1–3. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  5. United States Virgin Islands, Office of the Governor, Government House, official biography of Governor John Percy de Jongh, Jr.: “De Jongh was inaugurated on January 1, 2007”; “Governor de Jongh is married to Cecile Rene’ Galiber, who serves as chairperson of the Governor’s Children and Families Council.” https://www.onecaribbean.org/wp-content/uploads/USVI-BioGovernorJohnPdeJonghJr.pdf ↩ ↩2

  6. Deutsche Bank presentation to the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, September 12, 2019, Exhibit P. Row read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01681865 p.37 (Bates EFTA01681901). ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  7. Internal table headed “Salary and Benefit History” and “2009 - 2013,” undated, over the initials “CD an JB.” Salary line and annual totals read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01957595 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  8. Government of the United States Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Doc. 245-22, Exhibit 297, excerpt of the oral deposition of Cecile de Jongh, filed July 25, 2023. The caption page reads “THE ORAL DEPOSITION OF CECILE DE JONGH was taken on the 29th day of May, 2021,” which precedes the filing of the case; the page image was checked and reads 2021, so the deposition is described here only as an earlier one. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02812423 pp.2–27. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  9. FirstBank Puerto Rico to the Southern District of New York, March 9, 2020, response to a grand jury subpoena. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00065864 p.1. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  10. Email chain, February 9–16, 2011, between Cecile de Jongh and a territorial official whose name is redacted, forwarded to Epstein. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02027935 pp.1–4; the February 9 email is at p.4 (Bates EFTA02027938), reproduced from the page image. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  11. Government of the United States Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., No. 1:22-cv-10904-JSR (S.D.N.Y.), Doc. 165, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.’s Opposition to USVI’s Motion to Strike Affirmative Defenses, filed May 25, 2023, at 4, 6–9 and 12–13. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02807815 pp.8, 10–13 and 16–17. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  12. Copies at https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01584527 (JPM-SDNY-00064405) and https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01584080 (JPM-SDNY-00063906), both fax images of the same consent. ↩

  13. Financial Trust Company, Inc., unanimous consent of directors in lieu of meeting, March 8, 2010, Bates JPM-SDNY-00064751. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01584827 ↩ ↩2

  14. JPMorgan private bank email chain, March 22, 2013, Bates JPM-SDNY-00063006. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01583355 ↩

  15. JPMorgan Chase card statement addressed to Jeffrey Epstein / Southern Trust Company, cycle February 4 – March 3, 2014; the per-card totals are on p.5, read from the page. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01586839 pp.1, 5. ↩

  16. Cecile de Jongh to Epstein, “Our Conversation,” December 21, 2011. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01992511 ↩ ↩2

  17. Cecile de Jongh to Epstein, September 25, 2013. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01754747 ↩

  18. Schedule headed “2. Purpose/reason for each payment identified below,” with columns for account, name, type, date, amount, beneficiary and purpose; entries dated December 20 and 21, 2018. Read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00802367 ↩

  19. Cecile de Jongh to Epstein, “Private and Confidential,” February 1, 2012. Quotations reproduced from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01989609 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  20. Cecile de Jongh to Epstein, February 4, 2014, and Epstein’s reply, February 5, 2014, forwarding a Virgin Islands Economic Development Authority compliance email. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01935290 pp.1–2. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  21. Richard Kahn to Epstein, “Fwd: Loan,” October 14, 2016, forwarding Cecile de Jongh’s email of the same day. Read from the page images. Single characters are missing throughout the produced text, replaced by ”=”, so wording is paraphrased except where the surviving text is unambiguous. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02446867 pp.1–2. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  22. Consent of sole trustee in lieu of meeting, dated as of March 1, 2012 (Bates EFTA00311099). https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00311096 p.4. ↩

  23. Unanimous consent in lieu of meeting of the board of trustees, dated as of March 1, 2012. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00311096 pp.5–6. ↩

  24. Email chain, January 24, 2014, forwarded by Richard Kahn to Epstein. Read from the page images; de Jongh’s message runs across the page break after “budget.” https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01940225 pp.1–2. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  25. Epstein and Cecile de Jongh, July 29–30, 2012. Read from the page image, which resolves the produced text’s “car” as “ear.” The people referred to by first name are not identified in the document and are not identified here. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01873707 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  26. Cecile de Jongh to office staff, November 23, 2014, with a reply. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02090717 ↩ ↩2

  27. Cecile de Jongh to Epstein, “AP Call,” September 10, 2014. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00630939 ↩

  28. Email chain, May 14–15, 2011. Quotations reproduced from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00665968 pp.1–2. Copies at https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01863098 and https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00910980 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  29. Cecile de Jongh to Epstein, “Next steps,” July 1, 2012, and Epstein’s reply. Read from the page image. The offices of the two senators and of the attorney general she names are supplied by the JPMorgan brief, which quotes the same passage. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01881527 ↩ ↩2

  30. Cecile de Jongh to Epstein, “Fw: Letter from VI Dept of Justice,” May 21, 2015. Read from the page image; a second line reads “This just arri=ed in the mail today.” The ”=” in “arri=ed” is a quoted-printable artefact carried onto the face of the sheet, where a single character has been replaced by an equals sign, and it is quoted here unrepaired. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02709015 ↩

  31. Email chain ending September 7, 2011, including the August 30, 2011 inquiry from Wayne Barrett’s office and Epstein’s “ok.” https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01988601 pp.1–3. ↩ ↩2

  32. Cecile de Jongh to Epstein, September 7, 2011, with the same chain. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01999327 pp.1–2. ↩ ↩2

  33. Cecile de Jongh to Epstein, September 8, 2011, forwarding her exchange with Wayne Barrett. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01990849 pp.1–2 (p.2 is Bates EFTA01990850). ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  34. Cecile de Jongh to Epstein, April 10, 2012, “That’s what John went with.” https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00702259 ↩

  35. Cecile de Jongh to Epstein, “Document Retention,” December 19, 2014. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01748314 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  36. Suzanne Carlson, “Court filing claims ex-first lady was Epstein’s local fixer,” The Virgin Islands Daily News, May 26, 2023, preserved at https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00129016 and https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00129017 ↩

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