{"id":22522,"date":"2026-05-11T23:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/prominent-banker-les-staley-asked-to-sit-for-interview-in-house-epstein-probe\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T23:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:17:06","slug":"prominent-banker-les-staley-asked-to-sit-for-interview-in-house-epstein-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/prominent-banker-les-staley-asked-to-sit-for-interview-in-house-epstein-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Prominent banker Les Staley asked to sit for interview in House Epstein probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer is requesting that Jes Staley, a former JPMorgan executive and Barclays CEO, speak with congressional investigators about his relationship with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Due to public reporting, documents released by the Department of Justice, and documents obtained by the Committee, the Committee believes you have information that will assist in its investigation,&#8221; Comer, a Kentucky Republican, said in a letter asking Staley to appear before the panel in July.<\/p>\n<p>Staley\u2019s close relationship with Epstein has long been the subject of scrutiny, including by Manhattan federal prosecutors investigating the web of possible Epstein co-conspirators in the wake of his death, according to two people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>Staley has been accused of advocating to keep Epstein as a JPMorgan client even after Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008. After JPMorgan Chase was in the midst of litigation over claims that it enabled Epstein&#8217;s abuse, the bank sued Staley, in part, for &#8220;breach of fiduciary duty&#8221; over accusations that he acted in service of Epstein and himself over the interests of the financial institution. Through his legal team, Staley accused JPMorgan of using him as a &#8220;public relations shield.&#8221; A lawyer for Staley in that case did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>He stepped in 2021 from the top post at Barclays amid renewed scrutiny over his Epstein ties.<\/p>\n<p><i>Erica Orden contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer is requesting that Jes Staley, a former JPMorgan executive and Barclays CEO, speak with congressional investigators about his relationship with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. &#8220;Due to public reporting, documents released by the Department of Justice, and documents obtained by the Committee, the Committee believes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}