How a relationship with a billionaire child sex offender brought down the CEO of Barclays bank
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Jes Staley loses his appeal against City ban
In 1999, the future Barclays chief executive Jes Staley was gearing up for his biggest job yet. As head of JP Morgan’s private bank, he would be in charge of a sprawling team that managed money and investments for some of the world’s richest people.
Among them was the mysterious but well-connected billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, with whom he would quickly develop a “fairly close professional relationship”.
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