#EconomicDevelopmentCommission

People (4)

• Albert Bryan Albert Bryan Jr. is the ninth governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands, who chaired the Economic Development Commission when it certified Jeffrey Epstein's Southern Trust Company and later fired the attorney general suing JPMorgan.
• Henry Smock St. Thomas lawyer and former territorial judge who helped Epstein buy Little St. James, counseled the board that granted his tax benefits, and was Governor Bryan's proposed mediator for the estate settlement.
• John de Jongh John de Jongh Jr. was the two-term governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands from 2007 to 2015, whose wife managed Jeffrey Epstein's territorial office and whose 2015 embezzlement prosecution ended in a settlement.
• Stephen Deckoff Stephen Deckoff is the founder of Black Diamond Capital Management and a U.S. Virgin Islands resident since 2011 who bought Jeffrey Epstein's Little St. James and Great St. James from the estate in 2023.