After Epstein victims reached major settlements with JP Morgan Chase and Deutsche Bank, two more shoes dropped on allegedly “complicit” financial institutions. Adam Klasfeld – “Jeffrey Epstein’s survivors filed a pair of federal lawsuits against the Bank of America [via Court Watch] and the Bank of New York Mellon [via Court Watch] on Wednesday, accusing them of ranking among the “complicit financial institutions” who valued proximity to a wealthy and connected predator more than complying with anti-trafficking law. “Rather than merely providing routine banking services to Epstein, Bank of America went far beyond what a non-complicit bank would have done and instead assisted Epstein in setting up the necessary financial structure to operate his sex-trafficking venture,” the 49-page lawsuit says. In 2023, survivors settled similar lawsuits against J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank for $290 million and $75 million. Another lawsuit filed today estimates that Bank of New York Mellon processed $378 million in payments to women trafficked by Epstein. Both lawsuits cite the ongoing “follow-the-money” investigation by Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) into Epstein for the Finance Committee. During the investigation, Wyden found that billionaire Leon Black paid $170 million to Epstein for purported “tax and estate planning advice” from his Bank of America account, compensation that he found “far exceeded” that of other professional attorneys and advisors involved in Black’s estate planning. Attorneys David Boies and Sigrid McCawley filed both class action complaints on behalf of an anonymous Jane Doe, who says she met Epstein in Russia in 2011 and was sexually abused by him until 2019, the year of Epstein’s prosecution and death…”