U.S. Virgin Islands subpoenaed Elon Musk in Jeffrey Epstein lawsuit

The U.S. Virgin Islands has issued a subpoena to Tesla CEO Elon Musk for documents related to its suit against JPMorgan Chase stemming from late billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking operation.

The USVI government on Monday asked a judge to authorize it to serve the Tesla CEO via alternative means, highlighting that it had been unable to track him down in order to serve him with the subpoena personally, Bloomberg reported.

That government previously hired an investigative firm to find an address for Musk and had also tried to contact one of his lawyers, but to no avail. The USVI has attempted to reach Musk since late April.

Specifically, the USVI indicated it had reason to believe that Epstein had attempted to refer Musk to the bank as a client and seeks documents from the billionaire as part of a broader investigation by the USVI into the bank. The USVI alleges that it enabled and benefited from Epstein's sex trafficking of young women.

"Over more than a decade, JPMorgan clearly knew it was not complying with federal regulations in regard to Epstein-related accounts as evidenced by its too-little too-late efforts after Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges and shortly after his death, when JPMorgan belatedly complied with federal law," Attorney General Denise George said in December 2022.

Epstein himself died in his jail cell in 2019.

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