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Jes Staley sent an e-mail to his daughter, referring to the convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein as “Uncle Jeffrey”, the court listened to Wednesday, while former Barclays chief tries to challenge regulators’ accusations that he played his relationships to the late financier.
In a tense hearing in London, during which Stalej He accused the authority of financial behavior of “invasion” of his family’s privacy, the court heard that Epstein mentors Alex Staley and allegedly helped her apply for Columbia University, which Staley denied vigorously.
“I think it’s an invasion of my family here and I’m resenting him,” he said, after seeing the E -State in which he seems to have shared his daughter’s academic results with Epstein. “This exposure to your daughter is really important to you,” Staley added under the cross-examination of Leigh-Ann Mulcahy KC for FCA.
The court heard that Staley had forwarded the E -one that he received from Epstein in April 2009 Alex, in which the sex offender suggested he introduced to prominent individuals in the scientific world during lunch. Staley told his daughter that he was an e -uncle from Uncle Jeffrey.
Months earlier, Epstein faced the prosecutor’s accusations of paying more women, some of whom are younger than years, for massages that have completed sexual activities. Epstein declared himself guilty of seeking prostitution and sentenced to 18 months in prison.
Staley (68) was the third day of testimony in his legal challenge Against the FCA, who accuses Staley of diminishing his relationship with the dead sex offender. Staley became visibly furious as Mulcahy pressed him if his daughter received academic assistance from Epstein, including work in the famous large -scale physics experiment known as Ligo.
FCA does not cite that staley, which Stop Barclays 2021He was aware of Epstein’s crime.
FCA wants to prove that Staley’s connection with Epstein went away In addition to that of a professional relationship And that the characterization of their relationship is “not close”, in a letter sent by the regulator to Barclays in August 2019, a misconception.
Epstein died in a New York prison cell earlier that month after being charged with sex trade. He had previously declared himself guilty of separation of charges of seeking a minor in 2008 in Florida. After this earlier belief, Staley admitted that he had visited Epstein while releasing work work from custody.
Mulcahy previously showed Staley’s e -mail he sent Epstein in March 2011, in which he wrote: “Debbie [Staley’s wife] And tonight I talked about what you meant to me Alex. You paid the price for what was charged, but we know what you did for us. . . We consider you one of our deepest friends and the most sincere people. “
His daughter attended a party that Epstein hosted in 2012 and attended a conference with him in Vancouver at his call, FCA claims.
Mulcahy also referred to several E -Poruka in which Epstein and Staley called each other family, including an exchange between Epstein and Prince Andrew in the UK, in which Epstein wrote: “I know you saw Jesus Staley this morning, he is like family and can be trusted 100%.”
The court had heard earlier during the high trial that Staley had told a high colleague Barclays that he was Would never introduce his family to a convicted pedophile.
