By Nivedita Balu and Tatiana Bautzer
MORGAN Stanley opened accounts for Jeffrey Epstein’s trusts between 2015 and 2019, years after the financier was convicted and registered as a sex offender under a 2008 plea deal, documents released by the U.S. Justice Department show.
The emails made public by the DOJ, which published more than 3 million pages on January 30, 2026, show Epstein’s associates and investment entities continued securing banking relationships at Morgan Stanley long after his 2008 conviction, underscoring how Wall Street managed a client whose reputational risks were widely known.
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