Jay Clayton
 Jay Clayton     ( lawyer, deep state functionary, Deep state cover up artist) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Walter Joseph Clayton III July 11, 1966 Newport News, Virginia, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Gretchen Butler Clayton | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | Sullivan & Cromwell | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Independent | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Appointed United States attorney for the Southern District of New York to "investigate" Epstein files
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Walter Joseph "Jay" Clayton III is an American attorney who was appointed United States attorney for the Southern District of New York in April 2025. Clayton was chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from May 4, 2017, until December 23, 2020. He was nominated for the position by President Donald Trump.
Career
Jay Clayton was a "partner at the elite corporate law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, Clayton is one of the top lawyers on Wall Street. Goldman Sachs and other firms hired him during the financial crisis."[1]
Epstein investigation
In November 2025, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi assigned him to lead a probe into Jeffrey Epstein's ties to Trump political foes.[2] Whitney Webb wrote that
"Geoffrey Berman was pressured to step down by the first Trump admin roughly a year after prosecuting Epstein in 2019 (as I recall it was around the time when Berman was targeting Steve Bannon). Bill Barr tried to have Clayton replace him in 2020, but was unsuccessful. Clayton spent the time waiting to be ushered into that position by Trump earlier this year at Epstein associate Leon Black's Apollo Global in a board position they seemingly made JUST FOR HIM. In other words, Clayton is the guy the 1st Trump administration and Bill Barr specifically wanted in to replace the people who had Epstein (and later Maxwell) arrested and when they couldn't do it, a super rich Epstein associate gave him tons of money and now he has been installed in that position to "investigate" Epstein.[3]
References
- ↑ http://www.newnationalist.net/2017/03/25/donald-trump-literally-nominated-the-goldman-sachs-bailout-lawyer-to-run-the-sec/
- ↑ https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/trumps-urging-bondi-says-us-will-investigate-epsteins-ties-clinton-other-political-foes
- ↑ https://x.com/_whitneywebb/status/1990162196891136192
