Elon Musk, CEO of electric car maker Tesla, France’s economy and finance minister, on the sidelines of the 6th ‘Choose France’ summit at the Palace of Versailles outside Paris on May 15, 2023 I met with Mr. Bruno Lemaire.
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America virgin islands has issued Summon To Tesla CEO Elon Musk seeks documents in government lawsuit JP Morgan Chase Court filings were revealed Monday in a sex-trafficking lawsuit filed by the late Jeffrey Epstein, a longtime customer of the bank.
According to the filing, the Virgin Islands issued a subpoena issued on April 28 on suspicion that Epstein “may have introduced or attempted to introduce Musk as a client to JP Morgan.” An attempt to deliver it to Musk failed, he said.
In a filing, the U.S. Territory asked Manhattan Federal Court Judge Jed Lakoff to allow Tesla’s registered agent to serve a subpoena on Mr. Musk.
The subpoena will direct Musk to any documents showing communications involving Mr. Musk, JP Morgan, or Mr. Epstein, as well as “Mr. We require the submission of “all documents reflecting or related to the procurement of
The Virgin Islands are suing JP Morgan for profiting from Epstein’s trafficking of young women to private islands, enabling abuse by Epstein and others.
JP Morgan denies the government’s allegations, which are echoed in another civil lawsuit pending in Manhattan federal court by a woman who claims she was sexually abused by Epstein. JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon is scheduled to be fired in both lawsuits beginning May 26.
Documents submitted to the court by the Virgin Islands on May 4 show that the government has issued a subpoena to submit similar documents to Google co-founder Larry Page, and the search for Mr. Page is similarly difficult. It became clear that
And so far, the borough has owned several other companies, including Page’s fellow Google co-founder Sergey Brin, former Disney executive Michael Ovitz, Hyatt Hotels executive chairman Thomas Pritzker, and billionaire real estate investor Mort Bryn. Zuckerman has been issued a subpoena.
In Monday’s filing, the Virgin Islands said, “According to our information and belief, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and others, is a wealthy individual who may have been introduced or attempted to be introduced by Epstein to JP Morgan. has potential,” he said. In addition to being the CEO of Tesla, Musk is also the head of SpaceX and the owner of Twitter.
The government said it had hired a research firm to track down Musk’s address and had contacted one of Musk’s lawyers.
The attorney had waived requests for personal service of legal documents in previous federal lawsuits, according to filings.
“The government contacted Mr. Musk’s attorney by email asking if he was authorized to act on Mr. Musk’s behalf in this matter, but did not receive a response confirming or denying authority.” stated in the submitted documents.
Musk did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.
But on Monday night, Musk responded to Twitter user @unusual_whales who tweeted the story.
“This is ridiculous on so many levels,” Musk wrote in a reply to Twitter. “1. The financier didn’t give me any advice. 2. The idea that I need or need financial advice from stupid scammers is ridiculous.”
“3. JPM let Tesla down 10 years ago, even though it had Tesla’s global commercial banking business, after which we exited the business,” Musk wrote. “I never forgave them.”
In 2018, Epstein said, New York Times reporter James Stewart said he advised Musk after the Securities and Exchange Commission opened an investigation into Mr. Musk’s comments about taking the company private.
A still from the NBC Archives showing Donald Trump talking to Jeffrey Epstein at a Mar-a-Lago party in 1992.
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When contacted by The Times for comment, Tesla strongly denied the allegations, saying it was “wrong to say that Epstein advised Elon about anything.” Epstein predicted to Stewart that “everyone at Tesla would refuse to talk to him or be friends with him,” according to an article about the interview.
Epstein, a former friend of Donald Trump’s Bill Clinton and Britain’s Prince Andrew, was a client of the bank from 1998 to 2013. In 2008, he pleaded guilty to a state charge of soliciting sexual acts from an underage girl in Florida.
Epstein committed suicide in a Manhattan prison in August 2019, a month after being arrested on child sex trafficking charges.
— Additional coverage by CNBC Laura Collodny
