Google co-founder Larry Page.
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The federal government of the U.S. Virgin Islands has actually attempted without success up until now to serve a subpoena on Google co-founder Larry Page for files for its civil suit versus JPMorgan Chase associated to sex trafficking by the bank’s long time client Jeffrey Epstein, a court filing exposed Thursday.
The USVI officially asked Manhattan federal court Judge Jed Rakoff to license the federal government to serve Page with that subpoena through so-called alternative methods because its efforts to have a procedure server physically provide it to him have actually stopped working to date.
Alternative service can consist of sending by mail the legal documents, releasing them on a public news website or emailing them.
“Larry Page —the co-founder and co-owner of Alphabet Inc. (Google LLC’s parent company)—is a high-net-worth individual who Epstein may have referred or attempted to refer to JPMorgan” as a consumer, attorneys for the USVI stated in their court filing.
The subpoena to Page needs “all documents” from 2002 onward associated to interaction in between Page and JPMorgan relating to Epstein, and all files in between Page and Epstein associated to the bank.
The USVI likewise requires from Page “all documents reflecting or regarding Epstein’s involvement in human trafficking and/or his procurement of girls or women for commercial sex.”
CNBC has actually connected to Page for remark.
The U.S. area formerly provided subpoenas to Page’s fellow Google co-founder Sergey Brin, along with previous Disney executive Michael Ovitz, Hyatt Hotels executive chairman Thomas Pritzker and Mort Zuckerman, the billionaire investor. The subpoenas also looked for files and other info about Epstein and JPMorgan.
Page and Brin are the leading private investors in Alphabet.
The Virgin Islands stated in other places in Thursday’s filing that its examination exposed that JPMorgan “financially profited” from deposits made by Epstein and entities he managed, and “from the business opportunities referred to JPMorgan by Epstein and his co-conspirators in exchange for its known facilitation of and implicit participation in Epstein’s sex trafficking venture.”
The filing stated that the USVI provided the subpoena on Page on April 11, which 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.”
“Our process server attempted service at the addresses identified by our investigative firm, but discovered the addresses were not valid for Mr. Page,” the filing stated.
Page was CEO of Google’s moms and dad Alphabet from 2015 through 2019, after formerly functioning as Google’s ceo. He stays a director of Alphabet.
The U.S. Virgin Islands and a lady who states she was sexually abused by Epstein are individually taking legal action against JPMorgan, declaring the bank was complicit in his sex trafficking of numerous females.
Epstein for several years had countless dollars on deposit at JPMorgan, and utilized cash from those accounts to help with the travel of females to his home on a personal island in the U.S. area and in other places.
JPMorgan, whose CEO Jamie Dimon is because of be deposed in the event in late May, rejects misdeed.
Epstein eliminated himself in a Manhattan prison cell in August 2019, a month after he was apprehended on federal kid sex trafficking charges. He formerly pleaded guilty in 2008 to getting sex from a minor lady in Florida.
JPMorgan didn’t sever ties with Epstein till 2013.
Epstein throughout the years had actually been a pal to numerous abundant and popular individuals, amongst them previous Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.
