Overview

• Filed in Manhattan federal court on Oct. 15, the class-action complaints seek unspecified damages from Bank of America and BNY Mellon; both banks declined immediate comment.
• The suits cite Treasury records showing 4,725 wire transfers totaling more than $1 billion from 2003 to 2019, as congressional investigators review roughly $1.5 billion in Epstein-linked transactions.
• Plaintiffs allege Bank of America failed to timely file suspicious activity reports, with Rep. Jamie Raskin questioning 2020 filings tied to large transfers from Leon Black that were processed without explanation.
• Jane Doe says she met Epstein in Russia in 2011 and, at the direction of his accountant Richard Kahn, opened a Bank of America account in 2013 that was later used for Epstein-related payments through 2019.
• The case against BNY claims the bank extended a line of credit to modeling agency MC2 and processed about $378 million in payments to women trafficked by Epstein without appropriate alerts.