Jes Staley interview about Jeffrey Epstein with House Oversight set

Jes Staley, ex JPMorgan Chase manager and formerBarclays The CEO agreed to be interviewed on July 23 about his relationship with notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. House Oversight and Government Reform CommitteeA panel spokesman confirmed this on Sunday.

Financial Times First, it reported that Staley accepted a voluntary transcribed interview invitation extended to him three weeks ago by Oversight Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky.

The oversight panel is conducting a series of interviews with high-profile individuals about Epstein, including former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

Former Attorney General Pam Bondi was interviewed by the committee Friday about her stance on the release of the Justice Department’s files on Epstein.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is scheduled to be interviewed by the Oversight committee about his dealings with Epstein on June 10.

Billionaire Leon Black is reportedly scheduled to be interviewed on the panel on June 26, and Goldman Sachs general counsel Kathryn Ruemmler is also scheduled to be interviewed on July 15.

Staley was a friend of Epstein, who was a major client of JPMorgan when he ran its private wealth and asset management divisions.

Epstein, a former friend of President Donald Trump, died by suicide in prison in New York in August 2019, weeks after he was arrested on federal child sex trafficking charges.

JPMorgan agreed to pay $290 million to Epstein victims in 2023 to settle a lawsuit alleging that the bank facilitated sex trafficking by Epstein, who was a client of JPMorgan.

That same year, the bank agreed to pay $75 million to settle a similar lawsuit filed by the U.S. Virgin Islands government and agreed to a separate confidential settlement with Staley to resolve the bank’s claims that it was liable for any civil damages and costs related to the Epstein-related cases.

In neither public settlement, JPMorgan acknowledged wrongdoing in its dealings with Epstein.

Staley served as CEO of Barclays from October 2015 until his resignation in late 2021.

His departure follows an investigation by the UK Financial Conduct Authority into how he described his relationship between Epstein and Barclays, and how that relationship was later described in Barclays’ response to the FCA.

That regulator fined Staley more than $2 million and permanently banned him from holding a management role in the industry in 2023.

Barclays stated at the time that the investigation had “no evidence that Mr. Staley saw or was aware of any of Mr. Epstein’s alleged crimes”; “This was the central question that underpinned Barclays’ support for Mr. Staley following Mr. Epstein’s arrest in the summer of 2019.”

Staley said in 2020: “Frankly, I thought I knew him well, but I didn’t. Of course, as we now know, I deeply regret having any association with Jeffrey.”

— CNBC’s Garrett Downs contributed to this article.