Electrical automotive maker Tesla CEO Elon Musk meets with French Minister for the Economic system and Funds Bruno Le Maire on the sidelines of the sixth version of the “Select France” Summit on the Chateau de Versailles, outdoors Paris on Could 15, 2023.
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The U.S. Virgin Islands issued a subpoena to Tesla CEO Elon Musk looking for paperwork as a part of that authorities’s lawsuit towards JPMorgan Chase over intercourse trafficking by the financial institution’s late longtime buyer Jeffrey Epstein, a courtroom submitting revealed Monday.
That submitting stated the Virgin Islands has tried unsuccessfully since late April to serve Musk with the subpoena, which was issued as a result of Epstein “could have referred or tried to refer” Musk as a consumer to JPMorgan.
The USVI requested Manhattan federal courtroom Decide Jed Rakoff within the submitting to permit the federal government to serve Musk with the subpoena for the paperwork with Tesla’s registered agent.
The USVI employed an investigative agency to attempt to find an tackle from Musk, and likewise contacted one of many CEO’s legal professionals, who previously has waived the requirement of him being personally served with authorized paperwork in previous federal instances, in keeping with the submitting in U.S. District Court docket in Manhattan.
“The Authorities contacted Mr. Musk’s counsel by way of e mail to ask if he can be licensed to just accept service on Mr. Musk’s behalf on this matter however didn’t obtain a response confirming or denying his authority,” the submitting stated.
CNBC has reached out to request remark from Musk, who along with being CEO of Tesla is head of SpaceX and Twitter CEO by e-mail.
The USVI is suing JPMorgan for allegedly enabling and benefiting from Epstein’s trafficking of younger girls to his personal island within the Virgin Islands to be abused by him and others.
JPMorgan denies the federal government’s claims, that are mirrored in a separate pending civil lawsuit in Manhattan federal courtroom by a lady who says Epstein sexually abused her.
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon is because of be deposed for each lawsuits starting on Could 26.
– Extra reporting by CNBC’s Lora Kolodny
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