House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer issued subpoenas to JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank on November 18, 2025, demanding Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records as part of the committee’s ongoing investigation into the federal government’s handling of the Epstein case.
Chairman Comer simultaneously sent a letter to U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Gordon Rhea requesting documents related to Epstein’s business operations and criminal investigations in the territory.
The subpoena to JPMorgan Chase seeks records related to Epstein’s approximately two-decade banking relationship with the institution, which lasted until 2013 when the bank closed all of his accounts. The committee specifically expressed interest in documents pertaining to “Project Jeep,” an internal JPMorgan investigation launched in 2019 after Epstein’s arrest on sex trafficking charges.
Project Jeep—named using Epstein’s initials—resulted in JPMorgan filing a report with federal regulators that retroactively flagged approximately 4,700 Epstein transactions as suspicious. The internal review examined emails between Epstein and Jes Staley, a former JPMorgan private banking executive who had maintained a close relationship with the financier.
The Deutsche Bank subpoena focuses on Epstein’s accounts at that institution from 2013 until potentially late 2018. Deutsche Bank previously paid $75 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Epstein accusers, though the bank admitted no wrongdoing.
In his letter to Attorney General Rhea, Chairman Comer emphasized Epstein’s extensive ties to the U.S. Virgin Islands, where he owned the private islands Little St. James and Great St. James. Epstein maintained business entities in the territory, including the Financial Trust Company, which received hundreds of millions of dollars in tax incentives between 1999 and 2012.
The committee highlighted recently released documents showing Epstein communicated with USVI Governor Kenneth E. Mapp via email in November 2016 and exchanged text messages with USVI Delegate to Congress Stacey Plaskett during a February 2019 congressional hearing. The text messages showed Epstein appeared to offer advice to Plaskett while she was questioning former Trump attorney Michael Cohen during the House Oversight Committee hearing.
Comer requested all documents related to several USVI legal cases, including the 2020 lawsuit filed by then-Attorney General Denise N. George against Epstein’s estate and the subsequent lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase. The estate settlement resulted in a $105 million payment to the Virgin Islands, while JPMorgan paid $75 million to settle allegations it facilitated Epstein’s sex trafficking operation.
To date, the committee has issued 13 subpoenas, conducted depositions and interviews with key witnesses including former Attorney General William Barr and former U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta, and released tens of thousands of pages of documents.
The committee received written declarations from several former FBI directors and attorneys general—including James Comey, Alberto Gonzales, Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, Jeff Sessions, and Merrick Garland—stating they possess no information about the Epstein or Maxwell cases. The committee has also subpoenaed Bill and Hillary Clinton for depositions.
Chairman Comer stated that the bank records will assist the committee’s oversight of federal sex trafficking law enforcement and may inform potential legislative reforms, including changes to financial institutions’ role in combating sex trafficking and reforms to the use of non-prosecution agreements in sex crime investigations.
The committee requested that the USVI Attorney General provide the documents by December 2, 2025. The timing of the subpoenas coincides with congressional passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which requires the Justice Department to release documents from its Epstein investigation within 30 days after President Trump signs the legislation.
