Originally published July 26, 2023 8:00 pm PDT
JPMorgan Chase recently terminated the bank account of natural health proponent Dr. Joseph Mercola, who is known for his criticism of COVID vaccines.
QUICK FACTS:
- Banking giant JPMorgan Chase has closed the account of popular natural health advocate Dr. Joseph Mercola.
- Although given no reason, the accounts associated with Mercola’s company, Mercola Market, have also been shut down.
- On July 13, Mercola Market staff members received similar letters from Chase claiming the bank has “decided to close” their accounts because of “unexpected activity.”
- A voicemail from a Chase representative to CEO Steven Rye said the reason behind the account closures couldn’t be disclosed for “legal reasons.”
- Employees of Mercola Market have speculated that the move was politically driven, particularly Mercola’s stance on questioning COVID vaccines.
- “I believe they cancelled all of the accounts because of Dr. Mercola’s (our employer) opinions,” Rye said. “He has carried a contradictory view throughout the COVID narrative and co-authored the best selling book The Truth About COVID-10 which exposed the likelihood that this virus was engineered in a laboratory funded by the NIH.”
MERCOLA MARKET CEO STEVEN RYE ON CHASE SHUTTING DOWN EMPLOYEE ACCOUNTS:
“It’s just hard to believe that your family, your wife, your kids can’t have a bank account because of the opinions of your employer and they’ve never done anything wrong,” Rye said. “We all have completely clear records.”
BACKGROUND:
- In December 2022, the U.S. Virgin Islands sued JPMorgan Chase, accusing the largest U.S. bank of ignoring Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking.
- The territory claimed the lawsuit was an effort to “protect public safety and to hold accountable those who facilitated or participated in, directly or indirectly, the trafficking enterprise Epstein helmed.”
- “The investigation revealed that JP Morgan knowingly, negligently, and unlawfully provided and pulled the levers through which recruiters and victims were paid and was indispensable to the operation and concealment of the Epstein trafficking enterprise,” the lawsuit stated.
- The lawsuit further alleges that JP Morgan hid “wire and cash transactions that raised suspicion of a criminal enterprise whose currency was the sexual servitude” of victims in the Virgin Islands.
- Earlier this month, the US Virgin Islands reportedly asked JPMorgan Chase to pay at least $190 million to resolve the case.
- The territory said in a filing it wants JPMorgan to pay a $150 million civil fine, and give up at least $40 million from its 15-year relationship with Epstein.
- “A large payout is appropriate because JPMorgan “lacked the economic incentive and motivation to place compliance with the law and prevention of trafficking ahead of its own profits,” the territory’s lawyer said in the filing.
- The USVI wants JPMorgan to be held liable for providing services to Epstein from 1998 to 2013, enabling him to use massive amounts of cash to pay his victims, while also ignoring several internal warnings.
