Former Barclays CEO Jes Staley has been fined $2.2M and banned from the U.K. financial service industry after misleading regulators about this relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, Jonathan Browning of Bloomberg reports. “It is right to prevent him from holding a senior position in the financial services industry if we cannot rely on him to act with integrity by disclosing uncomfortable truths about his close personal relationship with Mr Epstein,” Therese Chambers, joint executive director of enforcement and market oversight at the FCA, said, according to Bloomberg.
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