Musk receives subpoena in Jeffrey Epstein lawsuit
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The United States Virgin Islands issued a subpoena to Tesla CEO Elon Musk seeking information in its lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase in relation to business with Jeffrey Epstein.
The subpoena was issued on April 28, and it cited Epstein potentially referring Musk as a client to JPMorgan. The motion was filed by Manhattan District Judge Jed Rakoff after the USVI made several attempts to contact and locate Musk but failed to track him down in person.
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Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, has been accused of abusing women on his private island in the U.S. territory. The island in question is Little St. James.
In March, a New York federal judge ruled that the USVI and the women who accused Epstein of sexual assault can sue JPMorgan over deliberately benefiting from Epstein’s sex-trafficking scheme.
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The subpoena comes weeks after fellow billionaire and Google cofounder, Sergey Brin, also received a subpoena. The USVI has been unable to subpoena Google co-founder Larry Page, who they seek because he is “a high-net-worth individual who Epstein may have referred or attempted to refer to JPMorgan,” according to a filing from May 4.
JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank filed motions to dismiss three lawsuits from women saying the bank ignored red flags about Epsteins sexual abuse, but they were ordered to face the cases in March.