Elon musk to be subpoenaed for documents in virgin islands' epstein lawsuit in opposition to jpmorgan

 The u. S. Virgin islands issued a subpoena to tesla ceo elon musk looking for files for that authorities’s lawsuit towards jpmorgan chase over intercourse trafficking by way of the financial institution’s past due longtime purchaser jeffrey epstein, a courtroom filing found out monday. That filing stated the virgin islands has attempted unsuccessfully to serve musk with the subpoena, which become issued on april 28, because of suspicion that epstein “may also have referred or tried to refer” musk as a consumer to jpmorgan. The u. S. Territory asked manhattan federal court choose jed rakoff in the submitting to permit it to serve musk with the subpoena with tesla’s registered agent. That subpoena demands musk turn over any documents displaying verbal exchange concerning him, jpmorgan and epstein, in addition to “all files reflecting or concerning epstein’s involvement in human trafficking and/or his procurement of ladies or girls for consensual intercourse.”

The virgin islands is suing jpmorgan for allegedly enabling and cashing in on epstein’s trafficking of young ladies to his personal island in the territory to be abused by him and others. Jpmorgan denies the government’s claims, which might be mirrored in a separate pending civil lawsuit in ny federal courtroom through a lady who says epstein sexually abused her. Jpmorgan ceo jamie dimon is because of be deposed for each proceedings starting on may also 26.

A may also four court filing by using the virgin islands found out the authorities had issued a similar subpoena for documents to google co-founder larry web page, and that it likewise become having trouble locating page. And the territory previously issued subpoenas to page’s fellow google co-founder sergey brin, former disney government michael ovitz, hyatt motels government chairman thomas pritzker and mort zuckerman, the billionaire actual estate investor.

In monday’s submitting, the virgin islands said, “upon records and perception, elon musk — the ceo of tesla, inc., amongst other agencies — is a excessive-internet-well worth individual who epstein may additionally have referred or attempted to consult jpmorgan.” further to being ceo of tesla, musk is head of spacex and owner of twitter. The authorities said that it had employed an investigative company to try to discover an deal with from musk, and additionally contacted one of his attorneys.

That legal professional in past federal instances has waived the requirement of him being personally served with felony documents, in step with the filing.

“the authorities contacted mr. Musk’s suggest via e mail to invite if he could be authorized to just accept provider on mr. Musk’s behalf in this matter however did now not acquire a response confirming or denying his authority,” the submitting said.

However on monday night, musk did reply to a twitter user, @unusual_whales, who had tweeted this newsletter.

“this is idiotic on such a lot of ranges,” musk wrote in his twitter respond. “1. That cretin by no means advised me on something by any means. 2. The notion that i might need or pay attention to monetary recommendation from a dumb criminal is absurd.”

The subpoena demands musk flip over any documents displaying verbal exchange concerning him, jpmorgan and epstein.