[NickC25]

>Is the logic that Epstein should have been entirely denied access to banking services?

Oh, I don't know - how about YES? If I'm a bank CEO and someone brings it to my attention that one of our clients is a convicted child molester, pedophile, and human trafficker but also a billionaire fronting the cash for a Mossad & CIA backed blackmail operation to traffic hundreds of children so that former Presidents, Primer Ministers, Fortune50 CEOs, British Monarchy, Hollywood stars and other high-society members can commit pedophilia, I would immediately think "oh, shit, this could make us look really bad, and if it leaks that we knew that this client is who he is, it might make us look complicit....maybe we should think about our relationship with this client, and maybe try to get them to bank with someone else"