Electric automobile maker Tesla CEO Elon Musk meets with French Minister for the Economy and Finances Bruno Le Maire on the sidelines of the sixth version of the “Choose France” Summit on the Chateau de Versailles, exterior Paris on May 15, 2023.
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The U.S. Virgin Islands issued a subpoena to Tesla CEO Elon Musk in search of paperwork for that authorities’s lawsuit towards JPMorgan Chase over intercourse trafficking by the financial institution’s late longtime buyer Jeffrey Epstein, a court docket submitting revealed Monday.
That submitting mentioned the Virgin Islands has tried unsuccessfully to serve Musk with the subpoena, which was issued on April 28 due to suspicion that Epstein “may have referred or attempted to refer” Musk as a consumer to JPMorgan.
The USVI requested Manhattan federal court docket Judge Jed Rakoff within the submitting to permit the federal government to serve Musk with the subpoena for the paperwork with Tesla’s registered agent.
The American territory is suing JPMorgan for allegedly enabling and benefiting from Epstein’s trafficking of younger ladies to his personal island within the Virgin Islands to be abused by him and others.
JPMorgan denies the federal government’s claims, that are mirrored in a separate pending civil lawsuit in Manhattan federal court docket by a lady who says Epstein sexually abused her. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon is because of be deposed for each lawsuits starting on May 26.
A May 4 court docket submitting by the USVI revealed that the federal government had issued an analogous subpoena for paperwork to Google co-founder Larry Page, and that the USVI likewise was having issue finding Page.
And the territory beforehand issued subpoenas to Page’s fellow Google co-founder Sergey Brin, former Disney government Michael Ovitz, Hyatt Hotels government chairman Thomas Pritzker and Mort Zuckerman, the billionaire actual property investor.
In Monday’s submitting, the USVI mentioned, “Upon information and belief, Elon Musk — the CEO of Tesla, Inc., among other companies — is a high-net-worth individual who Epstein may have referred or attempted to refer
to JPMorgan.”
The authorities mentioned that it had employed an investigative agency to attempt to find an tackle from Musk, and in addition contacted one among his legal professionals.
That lawyer in previous federal circumstances has waived the requirement of him being personally served with authorized paperwork, in response to the submitting.
“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,” the submitting mentioned.
CNBC has reached out to request remark from Musk. In addition to being CEO of Tesla, Musk is head of SpaceX and proprietor of Twitter.
In 2018, Epstein informed The New York Times author James Stewart that he had been advising Musk after the Securities and Exchange Commission opened a probe into Musk’s feedback about taking the corporate personal.
A video nonetheless from the NBC archive displaying Donald Trump speaking with Jeffrey Epstein at a celebration in Mar-A-Lago from 1992.
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When The Times reached out to Tesla for remark, the corporate strongly denied that declare, saying, “It is incorrect to say that Epstein ever advised Elon on anything.” Epstein had predicted to Stewart that “everyone at Tesla would deny talking to him or being his friend,” in response to an article about their interview.
Epstein, a former pal of Donald Trump Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew of Britain, was a buyer of the financial institution from 1998 by means of 2013. In 2008, he pleaded responsible to a state cost in Florida of soliciting intercourse from an underage woman.
Epstein killed himself in a Manhattan jail in August 2019, a month after being arrested on little one intercourse trafficking costs.
– Additional reporting by CNBC’s Lora Kolodny
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