A demand for papers in the Virgin Islands’ Epstein case against JPMorgan will be issued to Elon Musk
According to the subpoena, Musk must produce any papers that reveal interactions between him, JPMorgan, and Epstein.
According to a court document filed on Monday, the U.S. Virgin Islands issued a subpoena to Tesla CEO Elon Musk requesting records for the government’s lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase regarding sex trafficking by the bank’s late longtime client Jeffrey Epstein.
According to that document, there is reason to believe that Epstein “may have referred or attempted to refer” Musk as a client to JPMorgan, and the Virgin Islands has made unsuccessful attempts to serve Musk with the subpoena that was issued on April 28.
In its filing, the U.S. territory requested permission from Manhattan federal court Judge Jed Rakoff to deliver Musk’s subpoena to Tesla’s registered agent.
In response to the subpoena, Musk is required to produce any documents demonstrating interactions between him, JPMorgan, and Epstein as well as “all Documents reflecting or regarding Epstein’s involvement in human trafficking and/or his procurement of girls or women for consensual sex.”
JPMorgan is being sued by the Virgin Islands for allegedly helping Epstein send young women to his own island where he and others would abuse them.
In a separate ongoing civil action filed in Manhattan federal court by a woman who alleges Epstein sexually assaulted her, JPMorgan refutes the government’s allegations. Beginning on May 26, Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan, will be deposed in connection with both lawsuits.
The Virgin Islands stated in a court filing on May 4 that the government had sent a similar demand for papers on Google co-founder Larry Page and that it was also having trouble reaching Page.
Additionally, the jurisdiction has already served subpoenas on Page’s fellow Google co-founder Sergey Brin, ex-Disney executive Michael Ovitz, executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels Thomas Pritzker, and billionaire real estate mogul Mort Zuckerman.
According to information and belief, Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Inc. among other businesses, is a high-net-worth individual who Epstein may have tried to refer to JPMorgan, according to the Virgin Islands’ filing on Monday. Musk is the CEO of Tesla as well as the owner of Twitter and the head of SpaceX.
The government claimed that it had contacted one of Musk’s attorneys and hired an investigation firm to try to find an address from him.
According to the complaint, that attorney has waived the necessity of serving him personally with legal documents in prior federal cases.
“The Government contacted Mr. Musk’s counsel via email to ask if he would be authorized to accept service on Mr. Musk’s behalf in this matter but did not receive a response confirming or denying his authority,” according to the document.
In his Twitter response, Musk argued that “this is idiotic on so many levels.”
1. That imbecile never gave me any advice at all.
2. It is ridiculous to think that I would seek out or listen to financial advice from a simpleton crook.
- Despite owning Tesla’s global commercial banking business, which we later withdrew, JPM let Tesla down ten years ago, Musk said. I never did forgave them.
In 2018, when the Securities and Exchange Commission launched an investigation into Musk’s remarks on taking the firm private, Epstein revealed to James Stewart of The New York Times that he had been coaching Musk.
Tesla vehemently refuted this assertion when contacted by the Times for comment, stating, “It is incorrect to say that Epstein ever advised Elon on anything.” According to a report on their conversation, Epstein had prophesied to Stewart that “everyone at Tesla would deny talking to him or being his friend.”
From 1998 to 2013, Epstein, a former acquaintance of Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, and Prince Andrew of Britain, patronized the bank. He entered a guilty plea in 2008 to a Florida state felony of soliciting sex from a minor.
After being detained on suspicion of child sex trafficking in August 2019, Epstein committed suicide in a Manhattan jail.
