Denise George the AG of the Virgin Islands lost her job days after her JPMorgan Chase sue related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
She had filed the lawsuit against the financial institution citing that it had facilitated, sustained, and concealed the human trafficking network of the deceased Jeffrey Epstein.
Who is Denise George? Read further to know more about the American attorney:
Denise George: Age And Early Life
Denise N George also goes by the name Denise George-Counts. She was born in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands in August 1959. The 63 year old lawyer has her political interests invested in the Democratic Party.
Denise George: Education And Early Career
George attended the All Saints Cathedral School. She graduated high school from Charlotte Amalie High School. She pursued under graduation from the University of Maryland, College Park, a Bachelor of Arts degree in radio, television, and film. Later Denise George enrolled in further education.
She was a student at and received a Juris Doctor (JD) degree from the School of Law under Howard University in 1984.
Prior to pursuing law, George had served as a tv news reporter and desk anchor for a tv station known as WBNB-TV. The TV station was based in St. Thomas. She has also served as a host of a talk show that premiered on a local cable.
Denise George: Professional Career
Denis George began her law career after graduating from law school. She started as a Territorial law clerk for Judge Verne A. Hodge and Judge Ive Arlington Swan.
For the many consecutive years that followed George was a practitioner of general civil litigation and family law. She had her own private law firm that was named as Law Offices of Denise George-Counts.
George had served in the position of an Assistant Attorney General and trial attorney in the civil, criminal, juvenile, family, public corruption, and White Collar divisions of the Virgin Islands Department of Justice for a period that extended over a time of 18 years.
George was a non-compromising attorney who prosecuted charges of violent crimes that included manslaughter, rape, murder, sexual assault, child abuse, and domestic violence.
While serving as a member of the Child Abuse Task Force, George co-wrote the first-ever criminal child abuse and neglect statute of the Virgin Islands. Geroge was also the representative of the V.I. government in the civil lawsuits filed against and on behalf of the government that came under the Civil Division.
Later George also served as the Director of the White Collar Crime and Public Corruption Division for many years. While in this tenure she had the responsibility to transparently manage the division and prosecute high-risk cases such as white-collar crimes of forgery, embezzlement, racketeering, and fraud.
This continued to involve cases of public corruption that ranged over public officials of local agencies, including Schneider Hospital, the GERS, the Department of Human Services, the Office of the Governor, and the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
George took charge as the Senior Staff Attorney at the Virgin Islands Port Authority in 2016. She was in the chair until she was appointed as the Attorney General.
Denise George had made a million-dollar settlement of more than 105 million US Dollars in the Jeffrey Epstein case.
Denise George was the key person behind the lawsuits that were filed against Jeffrey Epstein and his estate. Epstein was charged with a sex offense case and the investigations held made him notoriously known as a predator who targets on minor girls.
Epstein had been accused of cases including procuring and soliciting child prostitution. He was also found guilty of the federal charges of sex trafficking of minors in New York and Florida. Epstein passed away in 2019 and his death has been more controversial.
As per the medical ruling, it was found that the cause of his death was being hanged. However, regarding his death and related cases, there have been many conspiracy theories.
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Denise George: Now
Denise George was the 18th AG (Attorney General) of the United States Virgin Island. She assumed the office on May 14, 2019, and served until she was removed from the position by the VI Governor.
AG Denise George was relieved of her duties on January 1, 2023, by Albert Bryan Jr the Governor of the Virgin Islands.
The Governor stated that he relieved Denise George of her duties as attorney general this weekend. He proceeded to thank her for her service to the people of the Territory during the past four years as Attorney General and wished her the best in her future endeavors.
He continued that Assistant Attorney General Carol Thomas-Jacobs would serve as Acting Attorney General. He was reading a prepared statement with a customary paragraph that is used for transparency.
George had filed the lawsuit in the federal court of Manhattan in which she accused JPMorgan Chase of helping Jeffrey Epstein to exploit women and minor girls.
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