Tag - financial trust company

Snapshot Stacey Elizabeth Plaskett is an attorney, the United States Virgin Islands delegate to the House of Representatives, and the Democratic nominee for governor of the Virgin Islands in the November 2026 election. Her public career has included work as a prosecutor, a Justice Department official, general counsel to the Virgin Islands Economic Development Authority, ... Read more

Snapshot John Percy de Jongh Jr. served as Governor of the United States Virgin Islands from January 2007 until January 2015. His administration coincided with an important period in Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with the territory. During those years, Epstein operated companies receiving substantial Virgin Islands tax benefits, maintained Little Saint James as a private residence, ... Read more

Snapshot Steven Jay Hoffenberg occupies a uniquely complicated place in Jeffrey Epstein’s financial history. He was not merely a social acquaintance whose name appeared in an address book. Hoffenberg employed Jeffrey Epstein as a paid financial consultant during the years when Hoffenberg’s Towers Financial Corporation was raising hundreds of millions of dollars through fraudulent securities ... Read more

Snapshot Official name: Government of the United States Virgin IslandsCommon abbreviations: Government of the Virgin Islands, GVI, and USVI GovernmentJurisdiction: United States Virgin IslandsGovernment type: Territorial government operating under the Revised Organic Act of 1954Current governor: Albert Bryan Jr.Current attorney general: Gordon C. RheaEpstein related period examined: Approximately 1996 through the present accountability periodPrimary institutional ... Read more

Snapshot Field Details Record group Banking records, wire instructions, invoices, account records, compliance files, suspicious activity reporting, and related litigation exhibits Core period Primarily the late 1990s through 2019, with investigations, litigation, settlements, and congressional review continuing afterward Principal financial institutions JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon, and correspondent ... Read more

Snapshot Financial records are among the most important evidence categories in the Jeffrey Epstein archive because they can establish dates, amounts, account relationships, institutional decisions, asset ownership, and the movement of funds. They can also show what banks, advisers, accountants, trustees, corporate officers, and regulators knew at particular times. They do not automatically explain why ... Read more

Snapshot Government of the United States Virgin Islands v. Estate of Jeffrey E. Epstein, Civil No. ST-20-CV-14, was a sweeping territorial civil enforcement action filed in the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands after Jeffrey Epstein died in federal custody. The Virgin Islands court docket contains the complaint, amended pleadings, discovery motions, challenges to asset ... Read more

Jeffrey Epstein controlled a large network of corporations, limited liability companies, trusts, charities, property holding companies, and aviation entities. These organizations held his homes, islands, aircraft, investments, bank accounts, charitable funds, and business interests. Other entities employed staff, paid vendors, managed construction, moved money, and administered his personal affairs. Some had clear operational purposes. Others ... Read more

Snapshot Citibank and its parent company, Citigroup, provided private banking and lending services to Jeffrey Epstein and his company, Financial Trust Company, during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Public court records establish that a Citibank private banker advised Epstein on investments and that Citibank extended two loans totaling $20 million. The resulting investment dispute ... Read more

Snapshot Overview Bear Stearns was a major Wall Street investment bank and one of the earliest institutions to give Jeffrey Epstein professional status, financial training, access to wealthy clients, and relationships with senior financiers. Epstein joined the firm in 1976 after teaching at the Dalton School. He became a limited partner in 1980 and left ... Read more