U.S. Virgin Islands says it can’t find Elon Musk to serve a subpoena in Jeffrey Epstein lawsuit
NEW YORK –
The authorities of the U.S. Virgin Islands advised a federal choose Monday that it could actually’t discover billionaire Elon Musk to serve him with a subpoena for paperwork in its lawsuit in search of to carry JPMorgan Chase chargeable for intercourse trafficking acts dedicated by businessman Jeffrey Epstein. It needs to serve his electrical automobile firm as a substitute.
Lawyers requested Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan in a court docket submitting to let it serve the subpoena on Tesla Inc. as a result of it has not been in a position to give the papers to Musk or his legal professionals because it issued the subpoena on April 28.
They mentioned they employed an investigative agency to look public information databases for potential addresses for Musk and reached out to considered one of his legal professionals by electronic mail however acquired no response.
A message despatched to a lawyer for Musk in search of remark Monday was not instantly returned.
The authorities of the U.S. Virgin Islands mentioned it believes Epstein could have referred or tried to refer Musk to JPMorgan.
It sued JPMorgan final yr, saying its investigation has revealed that JPMorgan enabled Epstein’s recruiters to pay victims and was “indispensable to the operation and concealment of the Epstein trafficking enterprise.”
Epstein, 66, took his personal life in August 2019 as he awaited intercourse trafficking expenses in a federal jail in Manhattan. Authorities alleged that he recruited and sexually abused dozens of underage women at his mansions in New York and Palm Beach, Florida, within the early 2000s. He had pleaded not responsible.
Lawyers for JPMorgan didn’t instantly return messages in search of remark Monday.
In the previous, they’ve mentioned victims are entitled to justice however litigation trying in charge the monetary establishment for Epstein’s actions had been legally meritless, directed on the mistaken get together and must be dismissed.
