The women had to file before the judge decided they had won. The confidential questionnaire for Bank of America’s Epstein survivors fund was due June 12, 2026. The fairness hearing was not until August 27. On that Thursday in Manhattan, U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff said he would grant final approval of a $72.5 million class settlement in Doe v. Bank of America, case 1:25-cv-08520. He called the money substantial. He called it justice, even if partial. He said no sum could repair what the women still carry. He rejected three accusers who argued the release was too wide because it forced them to give up related claims against the bank and other potential defendants without extra pay. A written judgment followed by the end of the week. The bank still says it did not facilitate sex trafficking. The class still says the wires did.
That sequence is the story The AEGIS Alliance is telling, not the press-release version in which a number appears and the argument ends. People who were trafficked were asked to bind themselves to a deal while the judge was still allowed to say no. He did not say no. He priced the case and closed it. About 30 percent of the fund was approved as fees for Boies Schiller Flexner and Edwards Henderson. Simone K. Lelchuk, who had administered the Deutsche Bank settlement before the same judge, is the fund administrator. The public face of the process is the 2026年幸存者银行结算基金 网站。
这不是JPMorgan的客户端文件
The complaint, filed in October 2025 by a Florida woman proceeding as Jane Doe, is built differently from the earlier bank cases. JPMorgan’s $290 million settlement and Deutsche Bank’s $75 million settlement grew out of Epstein’s own accounts. The Bank of America case, as 页:1 described it, focused on use of the bank by “his co-conspirators, associates and victims,” including Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year federal sentence. Doe said she was living in Russia when she met Epstein and that he sexually abused her at least 100 times between 2011 and 2019. The class is not limited to women who banked where he banked. It is every woman sexually abused or trafficked by Epstein, or by any person connected to him or to any Epstein sex-trafficking venture, between June 30, 2008, and July 6, 2019.
That definition is why the objectors had a point even though they lost. A release that wide buys peace not only for one wire room but for claims that might have been aimed at other defendants who touched the same venture. Rakoff disagreed that the deal was overbroad, and he rejected the argument that it should not cover claims materially different from Doe’s. Class-action law often disagrees with holdouts. The holdouts were describing a design feature. Settlements of this size purchase institutional quiet and a haircut for anyone who wanted a narrower release and a trial story. Estimates of who is inside the class have moved with the telling: lawyers told the Associated Press as many as 75 women, other write-ups said nearer 60, and 美国银行家 把游泳池放在90号附近 管理人的逐项索赔工作将是重要的数字。 它不会移动银行的判决。 美国银行不承认任何错失行为.
驳回动议怎么变成支票
Rakoff spent the first weeks of 2026 keeping the core claims alive. He found that alleged reckless disregard could support a theory that the bank benefited from a trafficking venture. That sentence is why a general counsel settles. A Manhattan jury looking at transfers around a convicted sex offender is not a room a bank wants. The parties disclosed an agreement in late March. The AEGIS Alliance recorded that moment in the 初步协议文件 和数字本身 7,250 万美元的通知初步批准于春季。 8月27日最终批准,次日下达了书面命令. 没有银行家被起诉。 没有任何行政部门不得不在记录中说出"启用"这个词.
Plaintiffs pointed at a Senate report’s description of roughly $170 million moving from Leon Black to Epstein, labeled in ways that sounded like tax and estate work, and at the bank’s alleged failure to file the suspicious-activity reports that statute requires once a registered sex offender is in the flow of funds. A lawyer for Black asked Rakoff in March to delay a deposition because the parties were close to settling. The delay was granted. The settlement arrived. That is how a deposition that would have put a billionaire under oath about payments to a trafficker becomes a line in a status report. The bank’s denial and the plaintiffs’ wire theory were never tried. They were priced.
望去的价单
Three banks. Three denials. Three funds. JPMorgan paid $290 million to survivors and, in a separate deal, $75 million to the U.S. Virgin Islands. Deutsche Bank paid $75 million. Bank of America comes in at $72.5 million and sits in the same moral neighborhood. Add the estate’s own victim payments, which have run past $200 million across the compensation program and later settlements, and the public math of this network is a stack of checks without a stack of executive prosecutions. Maxwell is in federal prison. The 把她抓起来的 没有叫一个督察跟她在一起 碰过相邻流量的银行家在打收入电话。 这种差异是这些案件的实际审理情况。
银行不是唯一拿钱和沉默的机构。 UBS QQ800 万美元 Maxwell被捕前躲藏的地方 同一网络的岛屿一侧位于 维尔京群岛贩运产业案 和在 先前的受害者基金. The 2008 non-prosecution agreement that let Epstein plead to state charges and keep a private jet was not reopened by Rakoff’s order. Partial justice is the judge’s phrase. It is also a description of a system that prices a pipeline instead of jailing the people who kept the pipe open.
八月的命令没有说明
The final approval puts an administrator between the fund and the class. It releases Bank of America from the claims the stipulation covers. It does not charge a compliance officer. It does not force a public admission. It does not answer the autopsy argument over how Epstein died in the Metropolitan Correctional Center, which The AEGIS Alliance has kept in the 颈部断裂文件 because the body and the banks travel together in public memory even when they are different cases. Suspicious-activity reports exist so that a bank cannot say it did not notice large sums moving toward a man who had already been convicted of procuring a child. If the Senate figure the plaintiffs cite is right, the notice was available. If the bank’s denial is right, the statute is decoration. Rakoff did not resolve that contradiction. He ended the lawsuit that was asking him to.
Seventy-two and a half million dollars is a rounding error in Bank of America’s quarterly print and a life-changing figure for a woman who was abused across eight years of wires. Both facts can be true. The second fact is why the objectors lost on optics even when they had a point on scope. People who were trafficked need cash now. Institutions know that. The timing of the March deal, coming as Black’s deposition came due and as the files dump kept feeding headlines, was not an accident of the calendar. The 承认爱泼斯坦案卷的公布率不到 1% 编辑 潘克对局里摆摊的禁令 是名称章节。 这个和解是钱的分会. 他们是同一本书。
关于运行记录,见网站 犯罪新闻 和 美国新闻 文档。 问卷截止日期于6月过后。 8月份检查了法庭。 它没有清除管道,而AEGIS联盟不会像它那样写.
