by William F. Jasper, The New American:
Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of Twitter, has been subpoenaed by prosecutors from the U.S. Virgin Islands in a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase, the bank of notorious pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. As The New American reported earlier (here and here), the lawsuit charges that “JP Morgan knowingly, negligently, and unlawfully provided and pulled the levers through which recruiters and victims were paid and was indispensable to the operation and concealment of the Epstein trafficking enterprise.”
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According to the Virgin Islands complaint, “JP Morgan’s banking relationship with Epstein was known at the highest levels of the bank.” It includes an internal auditing email suggesting that the criminal record associated with Epstein meant the accounts would have to be reviewed by CEO Jamie Dimon himself. The lawsuit details internal emails at the bank showing that some of the bank’s employees were clearly troubled by the institution’s ties to Epstein, and tried to flag them for action by the bank’s executives.
What is Elon Musk’s connection to all of this? That remains something of a mystery at this point, since neither previous court cases nor the voluminous reporting on Epstein have turned up obvious links between Musk and Epstein or Musk and JPMorgan. The Virgin Islands government does not charge Musk with any wrongdoing.
What does Musk say about this latest wrinkle in the Epstein case? The voluble tech titan was not without words, calling the subpoena idiotic and absurd. In a May 15 tweet, Musk stated: “This is idiotic on so many levels: 1. That cretin never advised me on anything whatsoever. 2. The notion that I would need or listen to financial advice from a dumb crook is absurd. 3. JPM let Tesla down ten years ago, despite having Tesla’s global commercial banking business, which we then withdrew. I have never forgiven them.”
The subpoena was served to Musk on April 28. The document suggests that Epstein, a convicted sex offender, might have introduced Musk, one of the world’s wealthiest individuals, to JPMorgan, per CNBC.
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A 2019 story in Vanity Fair by Gabriel Sherman posits a tenuous (and possibly fictitious) connection between Musk and Epstein at a dinner for tech titans in California. Sherman wrote:
Epstein remained a fixture in elite circles even after he was a registered sex offender. A few years ago, for example, he was a guest at a dinner in Palo Alto hosted by LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman for the MIT neuroscientist Ed Boyden. At the dinner, Elon Musk introduced Epstein to Mark Zuckerberg. (“Mark met Epstein in passing one time at a dinner honoring scientists that was not organized by Epstein,” Zuckerberg spokesman Ben LaBolt told me. “Mark did not communicate with Epstein again following the dinner.”)
In an email, Elon Musk responded: “I don’t recall introducing Epstein to anyone, as I don’t know the guy well enough to do so, Epstein is obviously a creep and Zuckerberg is not a friend of mine. Several years ago, I was at his house in Manhattan for about 30 minutes in the middle of the afternoon with Talulah [Musk’s wife], as she was curious about meeting this strange person for a novel she was writing. We did not see anything inappropriate at all, apart from weird art. He tried repeatedly to get me to visit his island. I declined.” A Musk spokesperson also emailed: “Elon never introduced Jeffrey Epstein to Mark Zuckerberg and does not know either person well enough to do so. They simply happened to be guests at a neuroscience dinner organized by Reid Hoffman.”
Epstein died suddenly in his New York jail cell while awaiting trial on federal charges of sex trafficking. Despite a series of suspicious circumstances, including violations of jail protocols and the mysterious malfunctioning of jail cameras, his death was officially labeled a suicide.
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