US senator wants urgent answers from Barclays over Jes Staley’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein

Exclusive: Elizabeth Warren says it is unclear how bank failed to uncover former CEO’s links with sex offender The leading US senator Elizabeth Warren has called for urgent answers from Barclays over what she claimed was its “apparent failure to meaningfully investigate” ties between the bank’s former boss, Jes Staley, and the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In a letter sent privately to Barclays’s chair, Nigel Higgins, and seen by the Guardian, Warren – the most senior Democrat on the US…