JPMorgan in tentative $13 billion deal with U.S. Justice Department: sourceCredit: Reuters/Mike Segar A sign outside the headquarters of JP Morgan Chase & Co in New York, September 19, 2013. The tentative deal does not release the bank from criminal liability for some of the mortgages it packaged into bonds and sold to investors, a factor that had been a major sticking point in the discussions, the source said.