A federal judge on Wednesday denied a bid by former JPMorgan Chase executive Jes Staley to dismiss a lawsuit by the bank that seeks to hold him legally liable for sex trafficking by former JPMorgan customer Jeffrey Epstein. The ruling in U.S. District Court in Manhattan came two days before JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon is scheduled to be deposed in lawsuits by the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands and an Epstein accuser against the bank over its relationship with the late predator. The Virgin Islands alleges in its suit, filed in December, that JPMorgan facilitated and financially benefited from the trafficking of ... (full story)