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Mega Edition: How Barclays Was Dragged Into The Epstein Storm (5/14/26)
Barclays became deeply entangled in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal because of the close and long-running relationship between its former chief executive, Jes Staley, and Epstein himself. Staley, who previously spent decades at JPMorgan before taking over Barclays in 2015, had maintained extensive contact with Epstein even after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor. The controversy exploded after Epstein’s 2019 arrest and death, when regulators and investigators began scrutinizing whether Barclays and Staley had misled shareholders and financial authorities about the true nature of…
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