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JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s private banking unit did not fully vet and monitor dozens of accounts tied to late-financier Jeffrey Epstein after learning that he trafficked and sexually abused minors, unsealed records in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the location of his infamous estate, suggest. The records, which consist of hundreds of pages of witness testimony, transactional histories and internal emails about suspicious activity reports, or SARs, relevant to a now-settled civil complaint in Manhattan, appear to show that JPMorgan did not verify the purpose of 31 corporate accounts, and possibly more, that Epstein controlled or accessed from 1998 to 2013....