federal government judge On Wednesday, the U.S. Virgin Islands ruled that it could send subpoenas to Elon Musk’s electric car company. Teslaas part of a government lawsuit against JP Morgan Chase Over the dead sex trafficker’s relationship with the bank Jeffrey Epstein.
The ruling comes days after USVI government attorneys told Judge Jed Lakoff that they were unable to personally provide the Tesla CEO with a subpoena demanding documents related to Epstein and JP Morgan. rice field.
The Virgin Islands are suing JP Morgan in federal district court in Manhattan, accusing Epstein of enabling and financially benefiting from the sex trafficking of young women. The deceased financier and sex offender was a client of the bank from 1998 to 2013, but JP Morgan has denied any wrongdoing.
The USVI subpoenaed Musk on April 28, citing suspicions that Epstein “may have introduced or attempted to introduce” Musk as a client of JPMorgan, according to court filings Monday. issued a letter.
The subpoena will provide Mr. Musk with any documents showing interactions involving Mr. Musk, JP Morgan, and Mr. Epstein, as well as “Mr. Epstein’s trafficking and/or procurement of girls and women for consensual sex.” We request that you submit all documents that reflect or relate to your involvement in
In a court filing Monday, the USVI said its investigative firm was unable to find Mr. Musk willing to file the subpoena in person, as it normally does.
The filing also states that Mr. Musk’s attorneys did not respond to requests to accept his client’s subpoenas.
In Wednesday’s order, Mr. Rakov authorized the USVI to “arrange for the alternate service of a subpoena for submission of documents to Mr. Elon Musk through service on Tesla’s registered agent.”
Mr. Musk did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The USVI also issued similar subpoenas against documents related to Epstein and JP Morgan. Google Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, former Disney executive Michael Ovitz, executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels Thomas Pritzker and billionaire real estate investor Mort Zuckerman.
JPMorgan Chief Executive Jamie Dimon is set to be fired on May 26 in the same lawsuit and related lawsuits against the bank by a woman who claims she was sexually abused by Epstein. .
In a tweet Monday night, Muksu lashed out at the idea of being served with a subpoena in the case.
“This is ridiculous on so many levels,” Musk wrote on Twitter before taking it private last year.
“That executive never advised me,” he wrote of Epstein.
“The idea that you need or need to listen to financial advice from stupid scammers is ludicrous,” Musk added. “Even though JPM had Tesla’s global commercial banking business, they let Tesla down 10 years ago and then we went out of business. I have never forgiven them.”
In 2018, Epstein said, new york times He advised Musk after the Securities and Exchange Commission opened an investigation into Mr. Musk’s comments about taking Tesla private. A Tesla spokesperson told The Times: “It would be a mistake to say that Epstein advised Elon about anything.”
Epstein committed suicide in August 2019, a month after federal authorities arrested him on child sex trafficking charges. He had previously pleaded guilty to a charge of soliciting sex from an underage girl in Florida in 2008.
Epstein and his ex-girlfriend Ghyslaine Maxwell interacted with many wealthy and powerful people before their downfall, including former presidents Donald Trump, former president Bill Clinton and brother of Charles III. Prince Andrew of England, who is
British socialite Maxwell was convicted at the end of 2021 in Manhattan federal court on charges of recruiting underage girls for sexual abuse by Epstein. Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison in June 2022.
In July 2020, Mr. Musk responded to a Twitter post that showed him taking a picture next to a smiling Mr. Maxwell.
“I know nothing about Ghyslaine,” Musk wrote. “She photobombed me once at a Vanity Fair party a few years ago. The real question is why VF invited her in the first place.”
new york timesin a 2022 article detailing the photo, reported that a Vanity Fair employee who stood next to Maxwell and Musk at a party said, “They were chatting.”
“Maxwell asked Mr. Musk if there was any way to remove himself from the internet and encouraged Mr. Musk to destroy the internet, but Mr. Musk was reluctant,” the Times notes at the time of the encounter. It was reported as a story of the staff who shared. .
“Later, Maxwell asked Musk why aliens had not yet made contact with humans. To this, Musk replied that all civilizations would eventually end, and Maxwell’s hypothesis I raised the possibility that human beings, including the alien civilization that is, are living in a simulation.