By Jonathan Stempel

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Bank of America and Bank of New York Mellon asked a federal judge on Thursday to dismiss lawsuits accusing them of knowingly aiding Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking by providing banking services to the disgraced late financier.

The proposed class actions filed on October 15 by one of Epstein’s victims, a Florida woman known as Jane Doe, said the banks knowingly ignored a “plethora” of information about Epstein’s crimes because they valued profit over protecting victims.

Both lawsuits said the banks should have filed suspicious activity reports with the U.S. Treasury Department, which could have helped law enforcement stop Epstein sooner.

But in a filing in Manhattan federal court, Bank of America said Doe alleged merely that it provided routine

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