Elon Musk subpoena in Epstein-JPMorgan lawsuit can be served to Tesla, judge rules

A national judge ruled Wednesday that the U.S. Virgin Islands tin service a subpoena for Elon Musk to his electrical car institution Tesla, arsenic portion of the government's suit against JPMorgan Chase over the bank's ties to dormant intersexual trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

The ruling came days aft lawyers for the USVI authorities told Judge Jed Rakoff they had been incapable to service the Tesla CEO personally with the subpoena demanding documents related to Epstein and JPMorgan.

The Virgin Islands is suing JPMorgan successful U.S. District Court successful Manhattan for allegedly enabling and financially benefiting from Epstein's enactment trafficking of young women. The precocious financier and enactment transgression had been a lawsuit of the slope from 1998 done 2013. JPMorgan denies immoderate wrongdoing.

On April 28, the USVI issued a subpoena to Musk due to the fact that of suspicion that Epstein "may person referred oregon attempted to refer" Musk arsenic a lawsuit to JPMorgan, according to a tribunal filing Monday.

That subpoena demands that Musk crook implicit immoderate documents showing connection involving him, JPMorgan and Epstein, arsenic good arsenic "all Documents reflecting oregon regarding Epstein's engagement successful quality trafficking and/or his procurement of girls oregon women for consensual sex."

The USVI said successful a tribunal filing Monday that an investigative steadfast it had retained had been incapable to find Musk to service him successful idiosyncratic with the subpoena, arsenic is the norm.

The filing besides said that a lawyer for Musk did not reply to a petition that the lawyer judge the subpoena for his client.

Rakoff, successful his bid Wednesday, authorized the USVI to "arrange alternate work of its Subpoena to Produce Documents by serving Elon Musk via work upon Tesla Inc.'s registered agent."

Musk didn't instantly respond to a petition for comment.

The USVI besides has issued akin subpoenas for documents related to Epstein and JPMorgan to Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, erstwhile Disney enforcement Michael Ovitz, Hyatt Hotels enforcement president Thomas Pritzker and Mort Zuckerman, the billionaire existent property investor.

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon is scheduled to beryllium deposed connected May 26 for the suit and for a related suit against the slope by a pistillate who says Epstein sexually abused her.

Muks successful a tweet Monday nighttime had blasted the thought of that helium beryllium fixed a subpoena successful the case.

"This is idiotic connected truthful galore levels," Musk wrote connected Twitter, which helium bought and took backstage past year.

"That cretin ne'er advised maine connected thing whatsoever," helium wrote, referring to Epstein.

"The conception that I would request oregon perceive to fiscal proposal from a dumb crook is absurd," Musk added. "JPM fto Tesla down 10 years ago, contempt having Tesla's planetary commercialized banking business, which we past withdrew. I person ne'er forgiven them."

In 2018, Epstein told The New York Times helium had been advising Musk aft the Securities and Exchange Commission opened a probe into Musk's comments astir taking Tesla private. A Tesla spokesperson told The Times, "It is incorrect to accidental that Epstein ever advised Elon connected anything."

Epstein killed himself successful August 2019, a period aft national authorities arrested him connected an indictment charging him with kid enactment trafficking. He had antecedently pleaded blameworthy successful 2008 to a Florida authorities complaint of soliciting enactment from an underage girl.

Before his autumn from grace, Epstein and his erstwhile woman Ghislaine Maxwell, socialized with galore affluent and almighty people, among them erstwhile presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, arsenic good arsenic Britain's Prince Andrew, the member of King Charles III.

Maxwell, a British socialite, was convicted successful precocious 2021 successful national tribunal successful Manhattan of procuring underage girls to beryllium sexually abused by Epstein. Maxwell was sentenced successful June 2022 to 20 years successful prison.

Musk successful July 2020 replied to a Twitter station that showed him posing for a photograph adjacent to a smiling Maxwell.

"Don't cognize Ghislaine astatine all," Musk wrote. "She photobombed maine erstwhile astatine a Vanity Fair enactment respective years ago. Real question is wherefore VF invited her successful the archetypal place."

The New York Times, successful a 2022 nonfiction detailing that photo, reported that a Vanity Fair unit subordinate who had stood adjacent to some Maxwell and Musk astatine the enactment said that "the brace chatted."

"Ms. Maxwell asked Mr. Musk if determination were a mode to region oneself from the net and encouraged Mr. Musk to destruct the internet; Mr. Musk demurred," The Times reported, citing the staffer, who shared contemporaneous notes of the encounter.

"Ms. Maxwell past asked Mr. Musk wherefore aliens hadn't yet made interaction with humanity, to which Mr. Musk replied that each civilizations yet extremity — including Maxwell's hypothetical alien 1 — and raised the anticipation that humans are surviving successful a simulation."