Attorney General Denise George Has Been Terminated

Authored by viconsortium.com and submitted by BelAirGhetto

Denise George, who served as V.I. attorney general for four years during the Bryan administration's first term, was terminated on Dec. 31, 2022, the Consortium has learned.

Attorney General Denise George was terminated on Saturday after serving four years with the Bryan administration, the Consortium can confirm.

The decision by Governor Albert Bryan to fire the A.G. came just days after Bloomberg News revealed that Ms. George in her capacity as V.I. attorney general had filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase — the largest bank in the United States and the world's largest bank by market capitalization — without first informing Governor Bryan of such a major action, said a person with knowledge of the matter.

The lawsuit claims JPMorgan Chase facilitated convicted felon Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of women and girls, alleging that the bank should have known about Epstein’s illegal activity and as part of its anti-money laundering procedures, should have reported their client to authorities.

George accused the bank of turning a blind eye to the sex trafficking operations that went on on Epstein’s private island in the USVI, Little St. James.

JP Morgan as of Thursday had not yet commented on the lawsuit, however reports from a source to the Guardian newspaper are that the disgraced financier’s relationship with the bank ended “long before his ongoing misconduct became known."

People familiar with the situation said Mr. Bryan had been frustrated with Ms. George for sometime and that her action against the bank was the final straw.

Carol Thomas-Jacobs, chief deputy attorney general at the V.I. Dept. of Justice has been tapped as acting A.G. following Ms. George's termination, the Consortium has learned.

Forward-Bank8412 on January 2nd, 2023 at 21:40 UTC »

This is in the Virgin Islands, for those who didn’t immediately get the references to V.I. or USVI.

squiddlebiddlez on January 2nd, 2023 at 19:07 UTC »

So we have AGs that file frivolous lawsuits only to break faith in democracy and normalize people delegitimizing the votes of their neighbors. We have AGs that have drunken ran over people, killed them, then covered it up. We have AGs that have been under federal indictment for almost a decade and all sorts of other abuse of office complaints but the only one getting quickly fired is the one trying to hold people accountable for sex trafficking and rape?

JoeRecuerdo on January 2nd, 2023 at 18:23 UTC »

"The decision by Governor Albert Bryan to fire the A.G. came just days after Bloomberg News revealed that Ms. George in her capacity as V.I. attorney general had filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase — the largest bank in the United States and the world's largest bank by market capitalization — without first informing Governor Bryan of such a major action, said a person with knowledge of the matter. The lawsuit claims JPMorgan Chase facilitated convicted felon Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of women and girls, alleging that the bank should have known about Epstein’s illegal activity and as part of its anti-money laundering procedures, should have reported their client to authorities."