Elon Musk was issued a subpoena by the US Virgin Islands in its lawsuit accusing JPMorgan Chase & Co. of knowingly benefiting from Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking.
The U.S. territory stated in court docket papers it had cause to consider Epstein might have referred or tried to refer Musk to JPMorgan as a consumer. A number of different billionaires, together with the Google co-founders Larry Web page and Sergey Brin, have additionally been issued subpoenas by the USVI.
Musk’s legal professional Alex Spiro didn’t reply to questions concerning the subpoena through e mail, however the Tesla Inc. chief govt officer addressed the difficulty on Twitter in a response to a posted article, calling it “idiotic.”
That is idiotic on so many ranges:
1. That cretin by no means suggested me on something in anyway.
2. The notion that I would wish or take heed to monetary recommendation from a dumb criminal is absurd.
3. JPM let Tesla down ten years in the past, regardless of having Tesla’s world industrial banking…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 16, 2023
The USVI on Monday requested the choose overseeing the case to authorize different technique of serving the April 28 subpoena on Musk. The territory stated it made good-faith efforts to acquire an tackle for Musk, together with hiring non-public investigators, however had been unable to find one.
The territory stated it additionally tried to serve Musk at Tesla’s places of work. The USVI requested for permission to serve the subpoena on Tesla itself.
The USVI subpoena seeks paperwork reflecting communications or conferences between Musk and JPMorgan or Musk and Epstein regarding the 2 males’s accounts on the financial institution. It additionally seeks from Musk any paperwork “concerning Epstein’s involvement in human trafficking” or regarding charges the Tesla CEO paid to Epstein or JPMorgan in connection together with his accounts on the financial institution. The case is Authorities of the USA Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase Financial institution N.A., 22-cv-10904, U.S. District Court docket, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
—With help from Dana Hull.
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