EFTA02572938.pdf

From: David Stem < Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 10:16 AM To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: JPM China The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's anti-bribery unit is =nvestigating whetherJPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) hired the children of =hinese officials to help its business, TheNew York Times reported, =iting a confidential government document. The bank hired the son of a former Chinese banking regulator who is =urrently chairman of China Everbright Group Ltd., a state-controlled =inancial company, while its Hong Kong office employed a Chinese railway =fficial's daughter, according to the report. After each appointment, =he bank secured assignments from companies connected to the new hires' =arents, according to the report. The bank has not been accused of any wrongdoing, according to the =eport. The government document and public records cited by The New York =imes do not indicate that the employees helped JPMorgan secure business =r that they were unqualified, according to the report. The regulator in May requested records from the bank concerning Tang =iaoning, the son of Tang Shuangning, who since 2007 has been chairman =f the China Everbright Group, according to the report. Officials also =ought information on the hiring of Zhang Xixi, daughter of former =ailway Ministry deputy chief engineer Zhang Shuguang, the New York =imes said. Both Tang and Zhang have left JPMorgan, according to the =eport. JPMorgan made a reference to the inquiry in its quarterly filing, saying =he SEC had asked for information about its "employment of certain =ormer employees in Hong Kong and its business relationships with =ertain clients," according to the report. "We publicly disclosed this matter in our 10-Q filing last week, and =re fully cooperating with regulators," Brian Marchiony, a spokesman =or JPMorgan, told Bloomberg News. Two calls to Everbright Group's headquarters in Beijing went =nanswered. Two calls to China Railway Corp., which took over operations =rom the disbanded Ministry of Railways in March, were unanswered. JPMorgan, led by Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon, is also working to =esolve U.S. and U.K. investigations after botched trades by its chief =nvestment office caused more than $6.2 billion of losses last year. =.S. Senate investigators concluded in March that the bank dodged =egulators and misled investors about souring bets by Bruno Iksil, a =rader dubbed the London Whale because his positions were so big.=?xml version=.0" encoding=TF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version=.0"> <clict> <key>conversation-idgkey> <integer>263964</integer> <key>date-last-viewed</key> <integer>0</integer> <key>date-received</key> <integer>1376820962</integer> <key>flagsgkey> <integer>8623750145</integer> <key>gmail-label-ids</key> <array> <integer>6</integer> EFTA_R1_01742746 EFTA02572938  <integer>2</integer> </array> <key>remote-id</key> <string>333311</string> </dict> </plist> 2 EFTA_R1_01742747 EFTA02572939