Ep. 23 - How The Epstein Case Impacts Illegal Activity In Supply Chains

Guest

Prof. Bridgette Carr

Duration

43 minutes

Host

Justin Dillon

JPMorgan Chase just paid $365 million for banking Jeffrey Epstein. The judge ruled they "should have known." Two words that quietly rewrote the rulebook for every procurement and compliance team on the planet.

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This week, Bridgette Carr — clinical professor at the University of Michigan Law School, founder of the country's first Human Trafficking Clinic, and expert witness in the JPMorgan/Epstein case — joins the show to unpack what civil liability looks like now that it's reaching bystanders, not just bad actors. Plus: how her law students traced forced-labor onions from Georgia fields to national grocery store shelves using nothing but Google and a laptop.

If you've ever told yourself your supply chain is just too complex to see into, this episode is for you. Spoiler: complexity is not opacity.

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In this episode

How JPMorgan's $365M settlement reshaped trafficking civil liability — and what "should have known" means for procurement teams
Why the trafficking conversation needs to move from "bad actors" to "ecosystems that enable exploitation"
Operation Blooming Onion: how University of Michigan law students traced exploited onions to national grocery store shelves using only public records
The legal shift: financial institutions, Olympic committees, Harrods, and beyond
Why dehumanizing a worker eighteen tiers down is the first step in every trafficking case
How AI and big data could surface the trafficking "neon signs" we've been missing

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Bridgette Carr is a clinical professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School and founding director of the school's Human Trafficking Clinic — the first of its kind in the United States. She has spent sixteen years representing trafficking survivors and has served as expert witness on major trafficking cases, including the U.S. Virgin Islands' suit against JPMorgan Chase for its banking relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.