Former Barclays CEO and JP Morgan executive Jes Staley has been accused of sexually assaulting a victim of Jeffrey Epstein at the pedophile’s infamous US Virgin Island retreat, the New York Post reports.

The accusation came as part of a ruling handed down by US District Judge Jed S. Rakoff in New York’s Southern District court, denying attempts by financial institutions including JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank to distance themselves from the Epstein case.

According to the filing, Staley allegedly “used aggressive force in his sexual assault of [anonymous victim ‘JPM Jane Doe’] and informed [her] that he had Epstein’s permission to do what he wanted to her.”

Staley served as private banking chief of JP Morgan from 2000 to 2019, and investigators discovered over 1,000 emails between him and Epstein between 2008 and 2012, some of which allegedly contained pornographic images of young women.

The exact amount of time he spent on Epstein’s island has not been revealed, however, he routinely communicated with Epstein.

The ruling gave numerous other women a chance to have their claims heard by the court, as well as those brought against JP Morgan by the US Virgin Islands.

The financial institutions were accused of having “knowingly benefited from participating in a sex-trafficking venture.” Brendan Sullivan, Staley’s lawyer, called the allegations against his client “slanderous” and warned that “the potential damages are astronomical.”

In April, it was revealed that numerous JP Morgan executives met with Epstein after 2013, contradicting the bank’s claims that it closed his account after he was convicted of being a sex offender.

As a result, a number of executives are now scheduled to testify in court about what they really knew. The claim of the US Virgin Islands government that JP Morgan knowingly benefited from participating in a sex-trafficking venture remains as part of the case, Rakoff wrote.