Lawyers for Epstein’s Victims Ask for $87 Million in Legal Fees from the $290 Million JPMorgan Settlement; Victims Could Get Nothing after Releasing their Claims

By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: June 26, 2023 ~ U.S. District Court Judge, Jed Rakoff, of the Southern District of New York, Is Hearing the Jeffrey Epstein Related Cases Against JPMorgan Chase There are three shocking takeaways from the class action settlement documents that were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District…

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JPMorgan Bank Deploys JPM Coin For Euro-Denominated Payments

German conglomerate Siemens was reportedly the first company to process euro-denominated payments using JPM Coin… The United States-based investment bank JPMorgan is expanding the implementation of one of its major blockchain projects into traditional banking. JPMorgan has deployed its blockchain-based payment system, JPM Coin, to introduce euro-denominated payments for corporate clients, Bloomberg reported on June 23. A…

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72 Hours Before JPMorgan Offered $290 Million to Make Epstein Claims Go Away, a Lawyer Disclosed that the Bank Had Withheld 1500 Documents

By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: June 26, 2023 ~ Sigrid McCawley, Managing Partner, Boies Schiller Flexner Sigrid McCawley is a Managing Partner at law firm, Boies Schiller Flexner, which has been representing the sexually assaulted and/or sex-trafficked victims of Jeffrey Epstein for years, including Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who settled claims against Prince Andrew last year…

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Institutions Are Falling Back in Love with BTC

Bankless Writer: Jack Inabinet | disclosures Over a dozen asset managers have sought the SEC’s regulatory blessing to launch some form of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) over the years, but thus far, applicants have been met with little more than silence or rejection. Just last week, however, BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management firm…

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The Coming Crisis of Cities: Reinvention or Bankruptcy

by Charles Hugh Smithof two minds.com The human population has become increasingly urbanized for compelling reasons that have been in play since cities were founded thousands of years ago. In a nutshell, cities offer greater economic / social opportunities and more novelty, variety and excitement. Cities became possible when agricultural surpluses enabled labor to become specialized.  This…

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