The judgment said Jes Staley did not "fully disclose" the nature of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. The judgment said Jes Staley did not "fully disclose" the nature of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Staley stepped down as CEO of Barclays in 2021 amid an investigation by Britain's financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, into his relationship with Epstein. But emails and other witness testimony demonstrated that the two had more than a "purely professional" relationship, the court ruled. "You never wavered in our friendship these last three years," Staley wrote to Epstein in October 2015, as he was interviewing to lead the multinational bank.