- The CEO of JPMorgan Chase will be deposed at the end of this month over his bank's ties to pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein
- The investigators have also subpoenaed Google's co-founder Larry Page
- Investigation revealed that JPMorgan "financially profited" from deposits made by Epstein
The US Virgin Islands failed in an attempt to serve a subpoena on Google co-founder Larry Page for documents related to its civil litigation against JPMorgan Chase regarding sex trafficking by the bank's longstanding customer Jeffrey Epstein.
The USVI formally asked Manhattan federal court Judge Jed Rakoff to authorize the government to serve Page with that subpoena via so-called alternative means, as its attempts to have a process server physically deliver it to him have thus far failed.
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According to CNBC, legal documents may be mailed, published on a public news website, or emailed as an alternative to traditional service. The subpoena issued to Page requests "all documents" relating to communications between Page and JPMorgan regarding Epstein beginning in 2002 and all documents between Page and Epstein regarding the bank.
The USVI also demands from Page "all documents relating to Epstein's involvement in human trafficking and/or his acquisition of girls or women for commercial sex."
Before Page, the US territory issued subpoenas to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, former Disney executive Michael Ovitz, Hyatt Hotels executive chairman Thomas Pritzker, and billionaire real estate investor Mort Zuckerman. Similarly, the subpoenas requested documents and other information regarding Epstein and JPMorgan.
The Virgin Islands stated elsewhere in Thursday's filing that its investigation revealed JPMorgan "financially profited" from deposits made by Epstein and entities he controlled, as well as "from the business opportunities referred to JPMorgan by Epstein and his co-conspirators in exchange for its known facilitation and implicit participation in Epstein's sex trafficking venture."
The filing stated that the USVI issued the subpoena to Page on April 11. It "made good-faith attempts to obtain an address for Larry Page, including hiring an investigative firm to search public records databases for possible addresses."
As prosecutors in the US Virgin Islands continue to unravel the late pedophile's financial web, both the CEO of JPMorgan Chase and the co-founder of Google has been subpoenaed to testify about Jeffrey Epstein's financial interests. In August 2019, Epstein, 66, died in a Manhattan prison while awaiting prosecution for sex trafficking. In June 2022, his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced.
The attorney general of the US Virgin Islands, where he owned a residence on a private island, is supervising the distribution of funds from a compensation scheme established to assist his dozens of victims. Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan, will testify on May 26 and 27 regarding his bank's dealings with Epstein, according to sources close to the investigation who verified to CNN on Thursday.
The US Virgin Islands seek unspecified damages from the largest US bank for Epstein's alleged sexual exploitation of juvenile girls and women on his private island, Little St. James. Denise George is pursuing testimony from the co-founder of Google, Larry Page. Epstein reportedly attempted to enlist Page as a JPMorgan client.
The subpoena, obtained by The Daily Beast, also requested correspondence between Page and Epstein, Page and JPMorgan, as well as records about Epstein's involvement in human trafficking and/or his procurement of girls or women for commercial sex.
George requested permission on Thursday to subpoena Page by "alternative service" - typically mail or public notice - because they had spent the previous month unsuccessfully attempting to locate and subpoena him in person. George stated that they had hired private investigators but could not locate him.
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In 2021, the reclusive oligarch was rumored to be residing off-grid in Fiji; however, some reports indicate that he has since relocated to New Zealand. George subpoenaed Page's Google co-founder Sergey Brin and billionaires Mortimer Zuckerman and Thomas Pritzker last month.
Since several years ago, Dimon has been questioned about his bank's dealings with Epstein. A complaint filed in New York last month alleged that JPMorgan Chase executives were aware of numerous allegations of sex abuse and human trafficking against Epstein and ignored them for years.
Miami prosecutors investigated Epstein's alleged sexual assault of minors in 2005. In 2008, Epstein pled guilty to the felony charge of solicitation of prostitution involving a juvenile and was sentenced to 18 months in prison, of which he served 13 months under exceptionally lenient conditions. JPMorgan did not terminate ties with Epstein until 2013, five years later.
