Google co-founder Larry Page.
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The authorities of the U.S. Virgin Islands has tried with out success up to now to serve a subpoena on Google co-founder Larry Page for paperwork for its civil lawsuit towards JPMorgan Chase associated to intercourse trafficking by the financial institution’s longtime buyer Jeffrey Epstein, a courtroom submitting revealed Thursday.
The USVI formally requested Manhattan federal courtroom Judge Jed Rakoff to authorize the federal government to serve Page with that subpoena by so-called different means since its efforts to have a course of server bodily give it to him have did not date.
Alternative service can embrace mailing the authorized papers, publishing them on a public news web site or emailing them.
“Larry Page —the co-founder and co-owner of Alphabet Inc. (Google LLC’s parent company)—is a high-net-worth individual who Epstein may have referred or attempted to refer to JPMorgan” as a buyer, legal professionals for the USVI mentioned of their courtroom submitting.
The subpoena to Page calls for “all documents” from 2002 onward associated to communication between Page and JPMorgan concerning Epstein, and all paperwork between Page and Epstein associated to the financial institution.
The USVI additionally calls for from Page “all documents reflecting or regarding Epstein’s involvement in human trafficking and/or his procurement of girls or women for commercial sex.”
CNBC has reached out to Page for remark.
The U.S. territory beforehand issued subpoenas to Page’s fellow Google co-founder Sergey Brin, in addition to former Disney government Michael Ovitz, Hyatt Hotels government chairman Thomas Pritzker and Mort Zuckerman, the billionaire actual property investor. The subpoenas likewise sought paperwork and different details about Epstein and JPMorgan.
The Virgin Islands mentioned elsewhere in Thursday’s submitting that its investigation revealed that JPMorgan “financially profited” from deposits made by Epstein and entities he managed, and “from the business opportunities referred to JPMorgan by Epstein and his co-conspirators in exchange for its known facilitation of and implicit participation in Epstein’s sex trafficking venture.”
The submitting mentioned that the USVI issued the subpoena on Page on April 11, and that it “made good-faith attempts to obtain an address for Larry Page, including hiring an investigative firm to search public records databases for possible addresses.”
“Our process server attempted service at the addresses identified by our investigative firm, but discovered the addresses were not valid for Mr. Page,” the submitting mentioned.
Page was CEO of Google’s guardian Alphabet from 2015 by 2019, after beforehand serving as Google’s chief government officer. He stays a director of Alphabet.
The U.S. Virgin Islands and a girl who says she was sexually abused by Epstein are individually suing JPMorgan, claiming the financial institution was complicit in his intercourse trafficking of a number of girls.
Epstein for years had tens of millions of {dollars} on deposit at JPMorgan, and used cash from these accounts to facilitate the journey of ladies to his residence on a non-public island within the U.S. territory and elsewhere.
JPMorgan, whose CEO Jamie Dimon is because of be deposed within the case in late May, denies wrongdoing.
Epstein killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell in August 2019, a month after he was arrested on federal youngster intercourse trafficking expenses. He beforehand pleaded responsible in 2008 to soliciting intercourse from an underage woman in Florida.
JPMorgan did not sever ties with Epstein till 2013.
Epstein through the years had been a pal to many wealthy and well-known folks, amongst them former Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.
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