(New York) The U.S. Virgin Islands government has officially requested documents from Elon Musk as part of a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase bank and its ties to late financier Jeffrey Epstein, according to court documents released Monday.
A woman, whose identity has not been released, and the government of the US Virgin Islands attacked the establishment in late 2022, accusing it of having facilitated the actions of Jeffrey Epstein, accused of sexual crimes against minors, in him to finance its activities. The bank denies these accusations.
Elon Musk is not incriminated in the file.
But “according to available information, Elon Musk – the chief executive of Tesla, among other companies – is a wealthy individual whom Epstein may have recommended or attempted to recommend to JPMorgan,” a document on file reads. Monday.
Also the government of the US Virgin Islands asked him, on April 28, to transmit any document evoking a possible role of Jeffrey Epstein in his relations with JPMorgan and / or the involvement of Jeffrey Epstein in sex crimes.
Government officials, however, failed to deliver the request personally to Elon Musk or one of his legal representatives. They ask, in the documents published on Monday, to be able, failing that, to send them to a legal representative of Tesla.
A similar request was issued in early April for Google co-founder Larry Page.
Jeffrey Epstein was sentenced to 13 months in prison in 2008 for leading young girls into prostitution in Florida, according to a secret agreement with a prosecutor allowing him to escape federal prosecution.
Charged and arrested in 2019 for having organized, for several years, a network made up of dozens of young girls under his influence and with whom he had sexual relations in his numerous properties, he committed suicide in prison a few weeks later, before to be judged.
JPMorgan had kept him as a client until 2013.