Mega Edition: How Barclays Was Dragged Into The Epstein Storm (5/14/26)

Summary

The Epstein Chronicles

Mega Edition: How Barclays Was Dragged Into The Epstein Storm

Host: Bobby Capucci
Date: May 14, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this “Mega Edition,” Bobby Capucci provides an in-depth, unflinching analysis of how Barclays bank and its former CEO, Jes Staley, were implicated in the continuing Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Drawing on recent revelations, lawsuits, and internal reports, Capucci explores the role major financial institutions – specifically Barclays and JP Morgan Chase – played in enabling Epstein’s criminal enterprise. The episode examines institutional complicity, the lack of transparency in internal investigations, and the broader culture of impunity among global banking elites.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Barclays’ Knowledge and Handling of Jes Staley’s Epstein Ties

(00:59–07:00)

• Barclays’ Internal Awareness:
  Capucci highlights that Barclays was aware of Staley’s close relationship with Epstein—through internal reports—but chose to keep him as CEO anyway. Even after an internal review into the matter, Barclays retained him:

  "Not only did they give him the job at Barclays, but they let him keep that job even after they launch their own internal report ... They hitched their cart to his horse anyway and let him lead Barclays for another, what, year or so?" (01:07)

• Corporate Greed Over Accountability:
  Capucci argues that Barclays’ decision was based on financial considerations, opting for stability over ethics during tumultuous times (e.g., the pandemic):

  "They decided to ride with Jes Staley ... even though they knew, because of their own internal reports, that this dude was a scumbag. But I guess that Jes Staley isn't salacious enough for all of the blue check mark cornballs..." (03:50)

2. The Role of JP Morgan & Financial Sector Enablers

(07:00–12:21)

• Newly Released Emails Reveal Deeper Ties:
  US Virgin Islands lawsuits publicly disclosed explicit emails between Staley and Epstein, with references to “Snow White” and possibly code language about trafficking:

  "A year later, he emailed say hi to Snow White. When Epstein responded, what character would you like next? Staley replied, Beauty and the Beast. So you do your own deduction there, okay?" (06:20)

• Regulatory Failures and Complicity:
  The episode alleges a pattern of deliberate inaction by JP Morgan:

  "When the bank later decided to ask Epstein directly about human trafficking claims, they sent Staley ... the guy that has a relationship with Epstein. Hell, the guy that brought Epstein on board." (08:30)

• Cyclical Patterns in the Industry:
  Capucci connects the dots between Epstein’s continued acceptance by prominent banks and other scandals (like Madoff), highlighting the sector’s repeated disregard for ethics:

  "JP Morgan has form on ignoring inconvenient facts ... Barclays had a history of going easy on Staley when he pushed legal and ethical boundaries." (11:18)

3. Barclays’ Defense & The Fall of Jes Staley

(13:48–22:03; 28:50–46:08)

• Barclays’ Public Statements:
  Even after mounting evidence, Barclays publicly backed Staley, claiming trust in his transparency regarding Epstein:

  "Barclays is backing its chief executive officer and said Staley retains the full confidence of the board and is being unanimously recommended for re-election at the AGM. It conducted its own review ... sufficiently transparent with the company." (27:10)

• Investor Action and Internal Power Struggles:
  Recurring segments reference activist investor Ed Bramson’s campaign to oust Staley, illustrating internal and external power moves, but note that the pandemic delayed this reckoning:

  "Bramson ... owns a stake of more than 5% ... said he was calling on Barclays shareholders to abstain from the vote ... with Staley at the helm, Barclays is never going to be as profitable as they would like. And ... the stink of Jeffrey Epstein anywhere around your money." (20:23)

• Ultimate Downfall:
  The host details how, once pandemic financial stability was restored, the “karma train” arrived:

  "Jess Staley is stepping down ... Barclays and Jess Staley are parting ways. And I couldn't be happier. Jess Staley is one of the people that I'm always talking about on the podcast when we're talking about people in the world of finance, the scumbags who were funneling the dark money, making the transactions happen for Jeffrey Epstein and his criminal conspiracy." (29:00)

4. Wider Context: Power, Privilege, and Unaccountability

(33:13–46:08)

• Financial Elites Shielded from Consequences:
  Capucci repeatedly criticizes the lack of prosecutions among high-level bankers and their protectors in politics:

  "Can you tell me how many of them are in jail? How many of them have been indicted? Oh, that's right. None of them." (32:57)

• Culture of Enabling and Disconnect:
  A strong point is made about widespread knowledge of Epstein’s criminality post-2008 conviction, yet continued association by wealthy elites:

  "All of those people that he's associated with or was associating with after 2008 ... have literally no ground to defend. I don't want to hear it now." (40:32)

• Legacy Media’s Failure:
  Capucci is critical of how mainstream media ignored or downplayed these issues, focusing instead on surface-level stories:

  "Meanwhile, the legacy media is out here running all kinds of COVID and acting like what's going on in Ohio is no big deal." (09:24)
  "You notice how the legacy media is getting real clammy about stuff now? They're real worried now that Brettler and Singer showed up." (44:50)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Barclays’ motives:
  “They did all of that for one simple reason, and that reason is greed.” (03:11)
• On Staley and Epstein’s coded language:
  “He emailed, ‘say hi to Snow White.’ When Epstein responded, ‘what character would you like next?’ Staley replied, ‘Beauty and the Beast.’” (06:20)
• On lack of accountability:
  “All of these banks that were involved with Epstein need to be audited under RICO statutes. Pretty simple. ... We need to know exactly what Staley and Epstein were up to, if there were any deals being made on the side, how many bags of cash were being dropped off, all of it.” (23:07)
• On elite impunity:
  “That’s how our overlords and dictators think, folks. And that’s what these bankers are. There are overlords. There are dictators.” (30:57)
• On media failures:
  “If you cornballs in the media would have done your job correctly, he would have been a target of worldwide outrage a lot longer than that.” (09:56)
• On post-conviction friendships:
  “Anyone associated with [Epstein] after 2008 ... you can miss me with all of that bullshit.” (40:32)
• On the systemic problem:
  “The juice isn’t worth the squeeze anymore for Barclays. ... Now that Staley has been put directly in the crosshairs, the party is over. They’re wiping their hands clean.” (45:20)

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Important Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment/Topic | |-------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:59–07:00 | Barclays’ knowledge of Staley’s Epstein ties and internal reports | | 03:11 | Greed as Barclays’ core motivation | | 06:20 | Staley–Epstein emails: “Snow White” and suggestive code | | 08:30–09:24 | JP Morgan’s willful blindness, regulatory failures, media disbelief | | 13:48–20:21 | Barclays’ boardroom politics, investor Bramson’s campaign, pandemic delays consequences | | 23:07–24:58 | Capucci’s call for full audits and accountability | | 29:00–30:53 | Staley resigns: Reaction and context | | 33:13–35:03 | On why elite bankers never face legal consequences | | 40:32–44:50 | Post-conviction associations; media’s selective coverage | | 45:20–46:08 | The end of Staley’s Barclays tenure; “karma train” and aftermath |

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Summary & Takeaways

• Barclays, despite internal warnings and evidence, knowingly retained Jes Staley as CEO, prioritizing profit and market stability over transparency or ethics.
• JP Morgan Chase remained tied to Epstein well after public knowledge of his crimes, with Staley playing a direct role in the relationship—exchanging numerous emails, some with coded or incriminating language.
• Investors like Ed Bramson sought to remove Staley due to both business and reputational risks, but the pandemic delayed action in the interest of financial stability.
• Once it was economically and socially necessary, Barclays parted ways with Staley, even as it attempted to downplay the true nature of his misconduct.
• Bobby Capucci remains fiercely critical of mainstream media’s avoidance of deeper institutional questions, and the systemic lack of legal accountability for financiers who enabled—if not actively facilitated—Epstein’s crimes.
• The episode closes by reaffirming that without the bankers and financial elites enabling Epstein, his criminal empire could not have existed at such scale.

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Host Tone: Direct, indignant, unapologetic, and laced with signature sarcasm. Capucci spares no institution or elite, mincing no words about complicity and the need for true accountability.

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For further details and sources discussed, listeners are encouraged to check the episode description.

Transcript

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And welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. Recently we've been talking a lot about Jeff Staley and the new revelations concerning his emails. Well, something that hasn't been talked about, nowhere near enough, is the fact that Barclays was aware of all of this. And not only did they give him the job at Barclays anyway, but they let him keep that job even after they launch their own internal report. And even after that internal report was out and they were aware of what Jess Daley was up to with Jeffrey Epstein, well, what did they do? They hitched their cart to his horse anyway and let him lead Barclays for another, what, year or so? And do you think we're ever gonna really see what that internal investigation found out? Of course we're not. Barclays is gonna play that close to the vest and continue to be the scumbags they've always been. Today's article is from the Financial Times. Headline, jeffrey Epstein's long Shadow falls on J.P. morgan and Barclays once more. The author of this article is Brook Masters. When does giving someone the benefit of the doubt cross the line into sticking your head in the sand? The leaders of JP Morgan, Chase and Barclays need to answer that question in light of newly public allegations about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and their former colleague Jess Staley. And not for nothing, but when all of these other yahoos were out here hooting and hollering about this list or that list or whatever list, I've been laser focused on the financial sector. And all of these scumbags that enabled all of this to happen.

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And now all of a sudden, the

[Financial Sector Commentator]

focus is turning towards these scumbags, and people are shocked that Jess Daley was involved as deeply as he was. So while this news is shocking to some people, it's certainly not shocking to me. Jess Daley, by far is one of the most powerful people in the financial world, or at least he used to be. And the fact that he was palling around with Jeffrey Epstein as much as he was, it told you everything you needed to know about what the two of them were up to. Now, I didn't have access to those emails until they were just released, but I knew that the contents of those emails were a lot more than them talking about who won the ball game last night. Epstein, a J.P. morgan client for more than a decade, died in 2019 while awaiting trial on additional charges of abusing young women and girls. But connections to him still cast a long shadow over individuals ranging from tech giants to royalty. Staley, who served at times as the US Bank's point person with Epstein, lost his job as Barclays chief executive in 2021 when he opted to fight a preliminary finding from the UK regulator that he had been misleading about their relationship. Meaning Jeffrey Epstein and his relationship. He tried to fight the regulators in the UK who brought his nonsense to light, and then Barclays, well, they were willing to go along and have him control the ship until it literally wrecked on the wreath. And they did all of that for one simple reason, and that reason is greed. They knew that if they had a change at the top, they, during the time when all of this was breaking the pandemic and otherwise, that it would have been terrible for Barclays and their shareholders. So instead, they decided to ride with Jess Daly, keep him in the position he was in, even though they knew, because of their own internal reports, that this dude was a scumbag. But I guess that Jess Staley isn't salacious enough for all of the blue Check Mark Cornballs, who are all of a sudden are interested in Jeffrey Epstein. Last week, both banks were dragged further into the scandal when U.S. virgin island authorities made public some of Staley and Epstein's emails as part of a lawsuit alleging that JP Morgan facilitated sex trafficking at Epstein's island compound. The US bank calls the lawsuit meritless, and Staley, who is not a defendant, has repeatedly denied that that he was aware of Epstein's misbehavior. Barclays declined the comment. And that's another reason why I always said that the U.S. virgin Islands suit is straight up garbage and trash. If they really cared about justice folks, they would have made sure that somebody like Jess Staley and his name would have been attached to it. But it was all about the cash grab down in the U.S. virgin Islands, unfortunately. The lawsuit alleges that Staley used his work email to exchange 1200 emails with Epstein and received what the lawsuit describes as photos of young women in seductive poses from the pedophile. It also alleges Epstein used JP Morgan accounts to pay more than $1 million to at least 20 survivors of sexual crimes. In 2009, Staley wrote to Epstein of their profound friendship and heartfelt hug. A year later, he he emailed say hi to Snow White. When Epstein responded, what character would you like next? Staley replied, beauty and the Beast. So you do your own deduction there, okay? You don't need me to tell you what they're talking about. You know exactly what they're talking about. And so did everybody else who looked at these emails, who were supposed to be regulators or who was supposed to be doing some kind of internal investigation. And they didn't care because at the end of the day, all that matters is securing that bag. In the lawsuit, JP Morgan alleged reaction to mounting evidence of Epstein's misdeeds comes across as almost blase. After his guilty plea in 2008, an employee speculated that his $120 million in assets would leave the bank pending Jamie Dimon review. Yet the disgraced financier pedophile stayed a client. So did Jamie Dimon take a look at it? And did Jamie Dimon okay it as well? These are all of the questions that our shitty ass legacy media should be asking. But instead it's left to content creators and independent journalists to try and figure it all out. Meanwhile, the legacy media is out here running all kinds of COVID and acting like what's going on in Ohio is no big deal. JP Morgan said last week. We have not seen any evidence of such a review. If Dimon didn't review it, who did? Did anyone? The lawsuit says that when the bank later decided to ask Epstein directly about human trafficking claims, they sent Staley, well, of course you're going to send your guy, right? The guy that has a relationship with Epstein. Hell, the guy that brought Epstein on board it in 2010, another email asked see below. New allegations Are you still comfortable with this client who is now a registered sex offender? The response these stories pop up when the head of Anti Money laundering requested formal reapproval of Epstein as a client in 2011, someone else wrote back, I thought we did that in approving a $50 million new line of credit last month. So they didn't even know what they were doing behind the scenes here. And obviously the only people who can make moves like that are power players like Jess Daly or someone like Jamie Dimon. JP Morgan can certainly argue that convicted felons are entitled to bank accounts, and the bank cannot be expected to pay close attention to every email and transaction involving a free spending mogul. The bank also closed Epstein's account in 2013 and shortly after Staley departed and before Epstein became a target of worldwide outrage. Well, if you cornballs in the media would have done your job correctly, he would have been a target of worldwide outrage a lot longer than that. And the fact that the bank will act like, well, we had no idea what was going on. It was Jeff Staley who was doing it. Well, he was representing you, right? He was the representative of your bank. He was entitled to make decisions and sign off on money. So I don't want to hear that the bank had no idea. It's my opinion that the bank knew and they just didn't care. Barclays never banked Epstein, but its board faces tough questions about their choices in 2020 after he was rearrested at that time. And now, public JP Morgan emails landed in the lap of UK regulators, who launched the probe into whether Staley had misled them about the nature of the Epstein relationship. Yet Barclay's board insisted that Staley had their full confidence and stuck by him for nearly another year. Not everybody. Edward Bramson went absolutely ballistic over this. People familiar with the process say the board based the decision on their own investigation. It included the emails, but not the attachments with the allegedly seductive pictures. They also took Staley's history of dogged loyalty and repeated denials that he knew anything about sexual misbehavior into account. Well, yeah, just ask me and I'll tell you. I'm not guilty. Do they really think that anyone is going to have confidence in anything they tell us? Like, why would anyone trust Barclays bank in the best of times, never mind now, knowing what we know and. And about how they were protecting Jeff Staley from getting the ax. People are innocent until proven guilty, and felons who have served their time deserve second chances. But demands for incontrovertible proof can be cover for willful blindness. When those involved are wealthy and connected to a network of powerful individuals, the pressure goes only one way. And that's how it's always been and that's how it's always going to be. And until everybody out there, the pitchforks and the torches, figure out that they aren't each other's enemy and the real enemy are these bankers and these scumbags who have us all in modern day slavery of a financial variety. JP Morgan has forum on ignoring inconvenient facts. In 2014, it paid 2.6 billion to end a criminal probe into allegations that had turned a blind eye to to Bernard Madoff's enormous Ponzi scheme. Barclays had a history of going easy on Staley when he pushed legal and ethical boundaries. The board previously stood by him when he tried twice to uncover the identity of an anonymous whistleblower and was fined 642,430 pounds over it. Hindsight is always 20 20, but it's fair to ask whether JP Morgan's interest in keeping Epstein's business and the Barclays board's faith in Staley have ended up damaging both institutions and may continue to do so. And that's just a little look behind the scenes. 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my guess is it's an astronomical number. And we're not just talking about oligarchs, right? We're talking about drug traffickers, human traffickers and all kinds of other undesirable pieces of shit. And for some reason, nobody in this sector is ever held accountable for anything that they do. But I guess when you're paying the bills, you also make the rules. Alright, folks, that's gonna do it for this one. All of the information that goes with this episode you can be found in the description box.

[Financial Sector Analyst]

Ellie and Barclay, shall we? There's a report out saying that Jess Staley will not have to worry about Sherborne and Bramson during this upcoming vote. And the reason is the. The Wuhan SARS outbreak and the pandemic that it has caused. Now, we know the reports that were coming out of Barclays before all of this. We was. Staley was on his way out by 2021. I told you that that timeline was going to be accelerated. And I still believe that timeline is going to be accelerated. Now I think that what they're doing here, and I said it from the beginning of this pandemic, is they're going to set Staley up to take the fall. They're going to keep him in now. And then when it's time for heads to roll, after this all passes and they see the carnage from the Wuhan SARS outbreak, it's going to be an easy decision for the board to jump on board with Sherborne and Bramson and jettison Jess Staley. I said before all of this started that I didn't think he'd make it through the summer. And I still don't think he's going to make it through the summer. I look for Jess Daley to be voted out the second. The second things stabilize in the market or at least appear to be stabilized in the market. And there is a concise plan, plan going forward to deal with COVID 19 financially as a, as an industry, with the bankers. Once they get to that point and they feel like there's a bit of stability, he's gone. Jess Daily is finished. There's no way Branson is not going to keep up the jihad. He wants nothing to do with Jess Staley being part of this board. And from the conversations I've had in the last couple of days with some of my People in the financial sector, they all said the same thing. This man is being set up to be the scapegoat. He's definitely going to get the ax. He was going to get it before the COVID 19 outbreak. And now it's just a matter of. Of when, not if. So we're gonna jump into this article and see what the Guardian has to say about Jess Staley and the upcoming vote at Barclays. The Guardian is the. The publication. The Author is Kalina McCortoff. Headline, Barclays CEO avoids vote against Re election over Epstein ties. Sounds ominous, right? And they love to do that with the headlines, with the headline. You would think, oh, man, they're just giving up. They're not going to vote against Jess Daley to get him out of here.

[Financial Sector Commentator]

They don't care.

[Financial Sector Analyst]

But in reality, this is all just a smokescreen. Remember what I tell you folks, all the time, we got to read between the lines. When we're reading these articles, we have to read between the lines, what are they trying to say without saying it? And that's the most important part when you're reading articles and you're going through the news, because it's. It's not the actual message that they're putting out, it's the message that they're giving you in between the lines. Barclays chief executive Jess Staley will avoid a potentially embarrassing vote against his reelection over his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after activist investor Ed Bramson eased up on demands for his removal in light of the COVID 19 outbreak break. And again, that is the whole motivation behind this. They know getting rid of their CEO right now in a. In a market that is so unstable will have disastrous results for them. And at the end of the day, let's remember Barclays, all they're worried about is that, bottom line, they're not good guys here.

[Financial Sector Commentator]

Right.

[Financial Sector Analyst]

They're not trying to get rid of Bram, get rid of Staley, because he's an evil guy and they don't agree with his behavior. No, it's all about optics, right? It's not because Barclays is this. This group of people who has this. This moral standard, and Staley, you know, didn't pass it. No, it's just because he was outed and the public knows, and it's about optics. So don't take this as if Barclays is some great group. They're not. But the fact of the matter is, sometimes an enemy of an enemy is my friend. And if Barclays is going to work towards getting rid of Staley, I'LL support that decision. And then I'll go back to criticizing Barclays as a group directly after they make that decision. But as of now, all I want to see is Staley get the boot. Brabson called for Staley's removal last month, but on Thursday admitted the bank would need more time to replace the cheek the chief executive as it tried to deal with the more pressing challenge posed by the pandemic. And that's just, that's basic stuff in the financial sector, right? You want as much stability as you possibly can, even if that means that the person who is at the helm might be facing an investigation or two. What you want to do is make sure that the stability of the organization going forward is the most important part of what you have going on. And for that, they need to have some stability through this whole entire thing, right? But once this pandemic passes, wait and see, folks, Staley is so finished, it's not even funny. Bramson is. His whole entire motivation here is to get rid of Staley. He understands that with Staley at the helm, Barclays is never going to be as profitable as they would like. And with Sherborne holding so much of the stock, it is important obviously, for them that this company, this bank is turning a profit. They have investors they have to answer to as well. And if you were an investor in Sherborne and you know, you see this meeting coming up, and you know that Bramson hates Staley and wants to get rid of them, as an investor in Sherborne, you're, you're on board with that, right? You want Staley gone, too. You don't want the stink of Jeffrey Epstein anywhere around your money. So it makes sense to get rid of Staley. But if you understand the financial markets and you understand how these, these things work, they don't. They never want to create more instability in a situation that is already unstable. So what you see here is Staley being propped up and being put out

[Bobby Capucci]

as the fall guy.

[Financial Sector Analyst]

Bramson, who Sherborne Investors Vehicle, owns a stake of more than 5% in Barclays, said he was calling on Barclays shareholders to abstain from the vote, which is due before the bank's annual general meeting on May 7. It is expected to take place via webcast due to physical distancing rules. Well, I wouldn't mind that if I was part of the, of the group, because I wouldn't want to be in a room with any of these people. Let's not cut corners here. We all know the financial sector is filled with Snakes and degenerates, right? And I'm sure the Barclays boardroom is no different.

[Financial Sector Commentator]

A letter sent by Bramson to Barclays

[Financial Sector Analyst]

shareholders said, we continue to believe that Mr. Staley has not demonstrated the level of judgment befitting a director or senior executive of the company. Now, remember, that's important because he's. He's letting you know right off the bat that they still don't have confidence in Staley. Again, let's read between the lines for them. Who better to take the fall than Jeff Staley when this is all said and done? However, as a result of engagement with Barclays and in recognition of the complexity of the management situation presented during the COVID 19 pandemic, we will now, with great reluctance, only withhold our vote for Mr. Staley's reappointment at the 2020 AGM rather than vote against him. Again, folks, I know it sounds bad and you want to be like, oh, God damn, star Joe Staley's not. Don't. Don't fall into that trap. This is all posturing. Just like when I told you the board acted as if they had faith in him. And then we started seeing the reports from sources that the board does not

[Financial Sector Commentator]

have faith in him.

[Financial Sector Analyst]

It's the same situation here. They're putting him up as the fall guy.

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Bramson said fellow shareholders should push the Barclays board for a succession timetable. He added that Staley's eventual departure was. Would bring an end to what has now degenerated into a series of public spectacles. And you see from the language here, Bramson is not letting up.

[Financial Sector Commentator]

He.

[Financial Sector Analyst]

But again, the most important thing to Bramson, and I'm not going to. I'm not going to say that I. I'm not going to slam him for this. It's his job to make sure that his shareholders are making money. You know, agree with how that works or don't agree with it. That's not the point here. The point is, his job is to make sure that his people, who have bought into his Sherborne vehicle, that they're making a profit. And in Bramson's mind, and in the mind of just about every speculator I've spoken to with Jeff Staley at the helm, especially after this all calms down and the spotlight goes back on to the Jeffrey Epstein case, there's zero chance that Staley is going to be able to lead Barclays going forward in a profitable manner, especially trying to climb out of this COVID 19 hole. UK regulators are investigating whether Staley was sufficiently transparent about his relationship with Epstein. On who died in prison in August 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of trafficking underage girls. Staley, who joined Barclays in 2015, has said he developed a relationship with Epstein in 2000 when he became the boss of JP Morgan's private bank, which counted Epstein among its wealthy customers. Again, I want a complete audit of J.P. morgan, Deutsche Bank. All of these banks that were involved with Epstein need to be audited under RICO statutes. Pretty simple. And that goes for Jess Staley as well. We need to know exactly what Staley and Epstein were up to. If there were any deals being made on the side, how many bags of cash were being dropped off, all of it.

[Bobby Capucci]

I.

[Financial Sector Analyst]

If it was. If it was up to me and I was in charge of this, I would have a team of 50 to 100 forensic accountants going crazy on this case. The Barclays boss said his relationship with Epstein tapered off after he left JP Morgan in 2013. What year was Jeffrey Epstein convicted again? How can you still hang out with Jeffrey Epstein after a conviction and then get the job as Barclays boss? Oh, I'll tell you how. Because they really don't care in the financial sector. That's how. He made a final visit to Epstein's private Caribbean island with his wife in the final months of 2015. Again, what sort of scumbag brings their wife to go hang out with a sex offender? I would be mortified to introduce my wife or my girlfriend or my fiance to a sex offender and go hang out on his island. You have all the money in the world. I mean, literally, Jeff Scaley is so God dang rich that it's not even funny. But yet he's still cavorting with Epstein.

[Financial Sector Commentator]

He still has to go to Epstein's

[Financial Sector Analyst]

island to hang out and have a vacation. Bro. Buy your own island.

[Financial Sector Commentator]

Go rent one out.

[Financial Sector Analyst]

Why are you hanging out with a pedophile? The Epstein investigation comes less than two years after Staley was fined almost £650,000 for attempting to unmask a whistleblower at Barclays in 2016. Yeah, of course. That's how he rolls. He's just like his boy Epstein. All of these folks deal in intimidation. They all deal in tampering. They all deal in paying off witnesses. It's just their M.O. that's how all these. These sons of bitches operate. And it's disgusting to see.

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[Financial Sector Analyst]

Barclays is backing its chief executive officer and said Staley retains the full confidence of the board and is being unanimously recommended for re election at the agm. It conducted its own review of Staley's relationship with Epstein and had concluded the chief executive had been sufficiently transparent with the company. And as regards the nature and extent of his relationship with Mr. Epstein. Talk about lip service. Wow. That is nothing more than to prop up the market. That comment There is nothing more than to prop up the market and to make sure that people have some confidence that the leadership isn't going to be rocked at Barclays. And in reality, I think that it's bad for Barclays to even go this route. When all is said and done, I am not going to forget the way Barclays has conducted themselves, how some members of the board still have full confidence in Staley. But now remember the rumblings and the scuttlebutt around the table in the financial sector is the opposite. So I still stick to the belief that by the end of the summer, maybe into the early fall, before we see Staley go, there is no way he makes it to 2021. 0 chance the second this pandemic starts to slow down and the second the banking market starts to stabilize, even just a little bit. Expect for Bramson to renew his calls and look to get rid of Jess Staley in a hostile takeover. If you'd like to contact me, you could do that@bobby capuchirotonmail.com that's B O B B Y C A P U, C C I.

[Bobby Capucci]

What's up, everyone, and welcome to the Jeffrey Epstein Show. I'm your host, Bobby Capucci, and this is a morning update. What's up, everyone, and greetings from Sin City. Hope you're all having a great week so far and hopefully your Halloween weekend was marvelous. Waking up today was like waking up to a fantastic Christmas presentation after you've been waiting all year to unwrap it. What might that be, you ask? Well, Jess Staley is stepping down from his position over at Barclays. Now, if you remember, right before the pandemic cracked off, Jeff Staley was under immense amount of fire and pressure for his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Now, Edward Bramson, who was an investor at Barclays and a big time investor over there, was putting the screws to Barclays management and Jess Staley to get him out of Dodge. And he was pressuring them for quite some time to make it happen. Now, if the pandemic never cracked off, Jeff Staley would have been out of this position a very, very, very long time ago. But with the pandemic and the fact that Barclays somehow, somehow was making a ton of money, well, it offered Jess Staley the protection that he needed to stay in that role for as long as he did. Well, that's over. After an internal investigation into his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, Barclays and Jess Staley are parting ways. And I couldn't be happier. Jess Staley is one of the people that I'm always talking about on the podcast when we're talking about people in the world, the world of finance, the scumbags who were funneling the dark money, making the transactions happen for Jeffrey Epstein and his criminal conspiracy.

[Financial Sector Commentator]

Jeff Staley is right at the top of that list, folks.

[Bobby Capucci]

This is a man who has been doing this forever. This is one of the most powerful bankers in the world. You mean to tell me he had no idea what Jeffrey Epstein was, who Jeffrey Epstein was, or what Jeffrey Epstein was up to? He knew. He didn't care. It's all about the money, right? All about the mighty dollar and securing a bag, no matter the results, as long as the means justifies the ends. That's how our overlords and dictators think, folks. And that's what these bankers are. There are overlords. There are dictators. What do you think George Carlin was messing around when he said the politicians don't mean shit. It's the bankers and the bagmen who send them there. I think for some required homework, everybody should go and listen to some George Carlin. Because everything that he had to say resonates even more today as we look at the current society that we live in. And this guy Jess Staley is at the top of the list for scumbag enablers, in my opinion, when it comes to money. And helping Jeffrey Epstein facilitate his crimes for this long, it could have never been done. And listen to me clearly, folks, it could have never been done without the assistance of these bankers. And can you tell me how many of them are in jail? How many of them have been indicted? Oh, that's right. None of them. That's because all of your favorite politicians that you're cheering for, your blue wave politicians or your MAGA friends, they don't care about you. None of these politicians do. They care about securing a bag and they care about getting reelected. And once they say they accept the money from these people like Staley, well, now they're on the hook, right? And guess who owns people like Staley? Well, people like Epstein. Fantastic circle we find ourselves in, huh? And you wonder why I say I have no interest in just stopping the wheel. I want to break the wheel. Because enough is enough. And the men of always have gotten along and gotten away with destroying the lives and dreams of the children of never for.

[Financial Sector Commentator]

For much too long.

[Bobby Capucci]

And somebody like Jess Staley being held accountable and being held responsible is certainly a step in the right direction. So let's check out this article from Reuters and let's see what author Rachel Armstrong and Lawrence White have to say. Headline Barclays CEO Staley Resigns After Epstein Probe. Barclays Chief Executive Jess Staley is leaving the bank after a dispute with British financial regulators over how he described his ties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Now, we know that this internal report has been going on for a minute, and my guess is that Barclays dragged it out a bit, kicked it down the road a little bit, till after the pandemic was a bit stabilized so that they wouldn't be affected financially. Now, obviously I don't have any evidence of that, but again, no matter where you go in the universe, two plus two equals four, right? So, you know, pretty obvious what they were doing here, and it's laughable for them to say any different. This was all about the bottom line. This was all about the investors not panicking and leaving in droves. And this was all about mitigating the dirty shit pie that they find on their face. Staley will be replaced as CEO by Barclays head of global markets CS Ventac Nanin. They call him Venkat, who on Monday pledged to continue his predecessor's strategy.

[Financial Sector Analyst]

So all systems go.

[Bobby Capucci]

We'll just continue doing everything that, that, that Jess was doing here because we were making so much money. And I get that. Right?

[Financial Sector Commentator]

You know, my.

[Bobby Capucci]

My beef with Jess Staley is not how he's running Barclays. I don't know enough about what these stupid ass bankers do to have that kind of opinion. My problem is the dude is morally bankrupt. A scumbag was facilitating the financial aspects of Jeffrey Epstein's criminal enterprise and was a very close confidant of Jeffrey Epstein, and he lied about it. So when all of those things come into play, it doesn't matter how much money you're bringing in if you're gonna make everybody look the fool. And that's where they found themselves at. While Staley was good at securing that bag, the fallout that's gonna radiate over this was just too much for them to deal with. So see you later, pal. Hope they still got some unemployment over in England for you to get. Then again, he's an American, so he better come back here, Mr. Staley. The 600 is done, my friend. I hear Walmart's hiring, though. Staley's shock departure comes after Barclays was informed on Friday of the unpublished findings of a report by Britain's Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulatory Authority into Staley's characterization of his relationship with Epstein, who killed himself allegedly in jail in August 2019 while awaiting trial on federal charges related. Related to sex trafficking. So this definitely caught me by surprise this morning. 100%. I. I wasn't expecting to wake up and have this gift drop in my lap. Figured we'd still be plugging along, talking about Ghislaine Maxwell's ridiculous request in court or something like that. But here we are with some pretty big news. This is a big time casualty, folks. This dude is a very, very powerful man. Right up there with the Leon Blacks of the world and the Glenn Dubins. And I'd say even more powerful than someone like Glenn Dubin being in charge of Barclays. Oh, yeah, that's a big deal. High prestige job. But guess what? You can't be buddies with child molesters, my friend. You can't go and hang out at their beach house, my friend. Not if you don't want to have people get some slapback coming your way. Not if you want to keep your cushy ass bazillion dollar a year job. In view of those conclusions and Mr. Staley's intention to contest them, the board and Mr. Staley have agreed that he will step down from his role as group chief executive and as director of Barclays. The bank said, oh, he's going to fight them, Izzy. Well, that's good. I'm always, you know, brewing for a good scrap. So I'll be here every day to challenge his nonsense right along. Punch piece by piece, because you know it's gonna be nonsense. How are you going to defend your relationship with Jeffrey Epstein? What he's going going to do is try and downplay it, right? That's what they all do. Oh, we weren't really friends. Oh, I was only there one time. Oh, this was just a business arrangement. When in reality it was much more than that. And obviously this report is going to show that as well. They saw something in this report that they didn't like. Enough. So that Staley is gone. Now comes the COVID your ass part. It should be noted that the investigation makes no findings that Mr. Staley saw or was aware of any of Mr. Epstein's alleged crimes, which was the central question of underpinning Barclays support for Mr. Staley. Following the arrest of Mr. Epstein in the summer of 2019, Barclays shares fell 2% following the announcement. So basically what they're saying is, well, we're firing him, the head of our bank, who is making great money because of what? He didn't see anything. He knew nothing. So what are you firing him for? They're just trying to put a little dressing on this, right? A little garnish, make it look a little bit better for Mr. Staley, when in reality, we all know this is bad news. He has this stigma attached to him now. And while nobody's sitting here saying Mr. Staley was involved in abusing anybody, I certainly have never said that. He has enabled and helped Jeffrey Epstein financially every step of the way. And again, this is another reason why there's not a RICO charge. If there was, all of these people would be caught up in it and the government would really, really, really be in trouble because all of their bag men would be caught up. Then who's gonna pay the bills? We all know that all of these politicians are beholden to these corporations and bankers. That's right. All of your favorite Politicians in the bag for bankers, including Bernie Sanders and the rest of them. I thought I knew him well. Steli dealt with Epstein during his long career at J.P. morgan, where Epstein was a major private banking client until 2013. Now, JP Morgan was one of the key financial institutions to facilitate Jeffrey Epstein's dark money. I have several episodes about all of these banks that were involved. And nobody got hemmed up. Nobody went to prison, nobody kicked in any doors, nobody dragged anybody out of their house while they were in their underwear or their undergarments and sleeping. We only saved that for, you know, our political opponents in this country. Child molesters. Well, they're allowed to do whatever they want. There's not even a media team waiting for them when they land. So there's that. This whole entire thing, as far as the dark money goes with Jeffrey Epstein, all of these people, all of these big time bank executives, all of these people that are in charge of the divisions where Jeffrey Epstein was parking his money, they all knew. Come on. A college dropout who styled himself as a brilliant financier, Epstein socialized in elite circles, including former and future US presidents. In 2008, he was registered as a sex offender, but continued to maintain ties with powerful players in business and finance. So all of those people that he's associated with or was associating with after 2008, when he was convicted, have literally no ground to defend. I don't want to hear it now. If it was before 2008, you can at least pitch the story of, I didn't know he wasn't arrested then. How am I supposed to know? But after that, how dare anybody try and fake the funk and act like they have no idea what Jeffrey Epstein was? Please, man, you can miss me with all of that bullshit. The New York Times reported in 2019 that Epstein had referred dozens of wealthy clients to Staley. It also reported that Staley visited Epstein in prison when he was serving a sentence between 2008 and 2009 for soliciting prostitution from a minor. No such thing. Hate that I have to keep saying this, but a prostitute and child, no such thing. Children, well, they can't consent, so how can they be a prostitute? While Bloomberg reported he visited Epstein's private island in 2015. So how can anyone say that these dudes weren't homies? How can Jeff Staley say, oh, I thought I knew him well, dude was arrested for sex act with a child solicitation. We all know what it really was, though. And for these people who think and say how smart they are, on a regular basis. You would think that they'd be a bit smarter, wouldn't you? Staley told reporters last February that his relationship with Epstein had tapered off significantly after he left JP Morgan in 2013, and that he had not seen the disgraced financier pedophile since taking over Barclays in 2015. Oh, well, that's fine, because your relationship tapered off in 2013 after you left JP Morgan. Oh, I wonder why. Was it because your symbiotic, disgusting, parasitic relationship was no longer beneficial to you at Barclays? No, I guess that has nothing to do with it, right? I thought I knew him well, and I didn't. I'm sure with hindsight of what we all know now, I deeply regret having had any relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, he said at the time. Oh, please. Do they all go to the same

[Financial Sector Commentator]

well to get that water?

[Bobby Capucci]

Because it all tastes the same when they're pouring it down our throats, doesn't it? I thought. I thought I knew him well, and I didn't. Bitch, you don't have Google? What, your duck duck dough stopped working? You don't have any assistance in your office, Mr. Mega Rich Billionaire Guy? Fuck out of here, man. Epstein's links with prominent men have come back to haunt some of them. Leon Black, the billionaire investor, stepped down from Apollo Global Management, the private equity firm he co founded earlier this year, after an outside review found he had paid Epstein $158 million for tax and estate planning. Boy, that's a pretty high bill, huh? Tax and estate planning, my right ass cheek. More like, here's some money for whatever the hell sort of nonsense you're up to, or here's some money. Wash it for me. Britain's Prince Andrew, AKA the Joe Exotic of the Windsor family, has quit royal duties over his associations with Epstein. And Microsoft co founder Bill Gates has said it was a huge mistake to spend time with him.

[Financial Sector Commentator]

Whoop.

[Bobby Capucci]

Hold on, let's back up. So Prince Andrew only quit his royal duties because of his associations with Epstein, huh? Not because of Virginia's accusations. You notice how the legacy media is getting real clammy about stuff now? They're real worried now that Brettler and Singer showed up. And it just shows you how cowardly the legacy media really is. Oh, they like to punch down. They like to go after wherever the political winds are blowing. But they don't go after the real powerful anymore, do they? The FCA and PRA said in a statement they could not comment further on the Epstein investigation, which was launched after JP Morgan provided the regulators with emails between Epstein and Staley from Staley's time as head of JP Morgan's private bank, the Financial Times reported last year. Staley told staff in an internal memo seen by Reuters that he did not want his personal response to the investigation to be a distraction. Although I will not be with you for the next chapter of Barclays story, know that I will be cheering your success from the sidelines, he said. Hopefully it's sidelines of never working again in banking. You should have lost that right. And this isn't cancel culture. This is somebody who looks like they

[Financial Sector Commentator]

were facilitating hundreds of millions of dollars

[Bobby Capucci]

for a child sex trafficking ring. Go put that in your pipe and smoke on it for a minute and tell me it's not disgusting and tell me it doesn't make your head spin. Staley has 28 days to formally notify the FCA that he is contesting its findings, after which an independent committee inside the watchdog will uphold or reject its conclusions, a source familiar with the process told Reuters. If upheld, the probe passes to an independent upper tribunal, which again can back or reject the findings, the source said. A process that could take months. So we're just getting ready here folks. We're just settling in because this is going to be a story that evolves and you know Jeff Staley isn't just just going to take it sitting down. He's going to appeal this and he's going to try and fight it. Venkat, who followed Staley to Barclays from JP Morgan, told staff on Monday the strategy put in place by his predecessor was the right one, according to separate memos also seen by Reuters. Venkat added that he would announce changes to the organization of the investment bank in the coming days, likely to mean filling his previous role and any other resulting vacancies. Sources at the banks said Barclays share price has fallen 9% since Staley's tenure began six years ago, a period not without controversy. So again, the juice isn't worth the squeeze anymore for Barclays. And now that the heat is turned up, now that Staley has been put directly in the crosshairs, the party is over. They're wiping their hands clean and moving on to Venkat. And they'll also say, well, we were off 9% since he started. So meanwhile we all know the scoop. His great success, insiders and analysts said, was to fight off a campaign launched by activist investor Edward Bramson in 2018 to have Staley removed on the grounds that Barclays Investment bank was underperforming and should be cut back. Bramson sold his stake earlier this year and the bank's recent results have seen the investment bank perform strongly. Also in 2018, Britain's financial regulators in Barclays fined Scalia combined 1.1 million pounds after he tried to identify a whistleblower who sent letters criticizing a Barclays employer. Hella employee. Hell of a guy, huh? Jeff Staley, Jeffrey Epstein's confidant. Trying to out a whistleblower and you know, just moving around hundreds and hundreds and probably billions of dollars of dark money. But yeah, he should run Barclays. There should be no penalties for him. Well, guess what? Those days are over. The karma train is on its way and Jeff Staley is the next stop. If you'd like to contact me, you can do that@bobby capuchirotonmail.com that's B O B B Y C A P U C c I. @protonmail.com you can also find me on Twitter Bobby Capucci. The link that we discussed can be found in the description box. As for me, well, I will be back later with some more. I hope all of you have a great day.