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Anonymous ID: 72a566 Barclays CEO stepping down after Epstein probe Nov. 1, 2021, 10:33 a.m. No.14900184   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0460 >>0475 >>0684

 

Barclays CEO Jes Staley is stepping down from his post following an investigation into his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

 

In a statement on Monday, Barclays said the company and Staley were informed of the probe’s preliminary findings on Friday evening, which led to the resignation decision.

 

“In view of those conclusions, and Mr Staley’s intention to contest them, the Board and Mr Staley have agreed that he will step down from his role as Group Chief Executive and as a director of Barclays,” the bank said, according to CNBC.

 

While it did not reveal many details on those conclusions, Barclays did say the investigation “makes no findings that Mr. Staley saw, or was aware of, any of Mr Epstein’s alleged crimes, which was the central question underpinning Barclays’ support for Mr Staley following the arrest of Mr Epstein in the summer of 2019.”

 

The U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority led the investigation, according to CNBC.

 

The company said the probe was looking into Staley’s “characterisation to Barclays of his relationship with the late Mr Jeffrey Epstein and the subsequent description of that relationship in Barclays’ response to the FCA.”

 

Staley said he intends to challenge the investigation’s preliminary findings, according to The Associated Press. The executive has previously said he “deeply regrets” his connection to Epstein.

 

The last contact between the two was in the fall of 2015, according to the AP, when Staley and his wife visited Epstein’s private island for lunch. That was just before Staley was hired by Barclays.

 

He said he did not have any contact with the disgraced financier after joining Barclays in December 2015.

 

Epstein was found dead in his jail cell in August 2019 while he was awaiting trial for allegations of sex trafficking. The New York City’s Medical Examiner later ruled that he died by suicide from hanging.

 

Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite and close confidant of Epstein, is now awaiting trial after being accused of helping Epstein recruit and sexually abuse underage girls.

 

The Hill reached out to Barclays for more information.

 

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/579356-barclays-ceo-stepping-down-after-epstein-probe

 

NPR

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/01/1051116607/jes-staley-barclays-jeffrey-epstein

Anonymous ID: 72a566 Follow Huma Nov. 1, 2021, 10:38 a.m. No.14900231   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0237 >>0460 >>0684

Huma Abedin recounts the moment she found out about Anthony Weiner's laptop in 2016: 'This man was going to ruin me'

 

 

Huma Abedin details the moment she found out the FBI seized her ex-husband's laptop in 2016.

"The instant she said 'Anthony,' my heart stopped," Abedin writes in her forthcoming book.

The FBI reopening its investigation into Hillary Clinton was a major boost for Trump.

 

Toward the end of her forthcoming book, longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin recounts the exact moment she discovered her ex-husband's laptop had been seized by the FBI in the homestretch of the 2016 election.

 

Insider obtained an early copy of her memoir, "Both/And: A life in Many Worlds," which will be released on November 2.

 

One of several so-called October surprises from that election, sexting-implicated Anthony Weiner's laptop resulted in the FBI reopening its investigation into Clinton's use of private emails as Secretary of State, months after it had been closed by then-FBI Director James Comey in a highly unusual press conference.

 

The laptop was initially in possession of the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York in their investigation of Weiner's online conversations with a teenage girl, but when emails from Abedin were also found on the laptop, it was turned over to the FBI. The State Department later released those emails, which did not change the outcome of the Clinton investigation after it had been previously closed.

 

"The instant she said 'Anthony,' my heart stopped," Abedin writes, referring to Jen Palmieri, the Clinton campaign's communications director, who told her upon getting off a flight. "No, no, no. I had handled this, I had taken control of this. I had sent him away. It had cost us a fortune, I had cobbled together a life of relative normalcy for my son, I came to the office every day. This couldn't be happening now."

 

Comey would later say he felt "mildly nauseous" to think his October letter on the Weiner laptop could have influenced the results of the 2016 election.

 

In the more than 500-page book, Abedin chronicles the evolution of her relationship with Weiner going back to the early 2000s when they first met at a Democratic Party retreat on Martha's Vineyard and through their divorce following his multiple sexting scandals, which landed him a 21-month prison sentence.

 

"No matter how hard I tried, whether it was to help Anthony, to threaten him, to sympathize with him, to ignore him, to throw him out of my house, it was impossible to move on," Abedin writes later on in the laptop passage. "This man was going to ruin me, and now he was going to jeopardize HRC's chances of winning the presidency, which would leave our country in the hands of someone dangerously unfit for the office."

 

Abedin describes seeing Hillary Clinton find out about Weiner's laptop and its implications for her bid to become the nation's first woman president.

 

"I watched HRC's face as she processed it," she writes. "The moment she made eye contact with me, I just broke down."

 

"I had held it together for months—through the night of the shocking photo, all the meetings with Children's Services, the paparazzi on the street, becoming a single parent overnight, the daily hate messages, and even, until just a few minutes ago, the news about Comey's announcement to Congress," Abedin continues. "But now that I knew the investigation somehow involved my own email, tears flowed out of me. HRC stood up from her seat, came over to hug me, and then walked with me to the bathroom so I could compose myself."

 

As in much of the book, Abedin credits Clinton for going above and beyond as a boss and mentor.

 

"On a plane full of colleagues, Secret Service agents, reporters, photographers—everyone with eyes simultaneously averted and questioning—she did that," Abedin writes.

 

"Both/And: A life in Many Worlds" is set for a Nove. 2 hardcover release.

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/huma-abedin-anthony-weiner-fbi-investigation-hillary-clinton-laptop-2021-11