Deutsche Bank rightly paying the price for looking the other way on Epstein
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Kyle Brasseur2020-07-08T13:38:00
In terms of Know Your Customer, Deutsche Bank knew what it had with Jeffrey Epstein. It just didn’t care enough to do anything about it.
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