Ties to Jeffrey Epstein are proving costly.
in June to pay $290 million to settle a class-action suit from Epstein's victims that was brought under the same statute."was not an enforcement action," per spokesperson Trish Wexler. "The USVI was a civil plaintiff in a civil lawsuit," she says.the suit as "the first enforcement action filed against a bank for facilitating and profiting from human trafficking."At stake is the question of whether U.S.
In terms of those commitments, "likely none of this would have happened without these cases coming forward," Bridgette Carr, the director of the human trafficking clinic at Michigan Law and an expert witness for the U.S. Virgin Islands, tells Axios. What's more, according to parts of the agreement seen by Axios, the listed commitments are explicitly described as "ongoing good faith efforts" on the part of the bank — and explicitly are "not contractual commitments."of the TVPA, a state attorney general can bring a civil action as "parens patriae" on behalf of residents of the state.
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