Crime

Probate Case May Cast Sunlight on Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's Interactions with the Influential in the V.I.

ST. THOMAS — The V.I. Department of Justice's civil claims against the half-billion dollar estate of Jeffrey Epstein is casting an unwanted spotlight on the dead pedophile’s interactions with the Virgin Islands’ rich and powerful. Attorney General Denise George stepped up the pressure on Epstein’s estate by amending a civil enforcement action brought in January to include the names of the estate executors, lawyers Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, as co-defendants. In court documents filed this week, Ms. George also added Epstein’s Red Hook-based Southern Trust Co. as a co-defendant for allegedly being used to conceal Epstein’s years of alleged trafficking and sexual abuse of young women and underage girls. Naming Southern Trust as a co-defendant in the civil litigation potentially opens company records and activities to public scrutiny — a move that may cast a chill across some of the territory’s prominent social and political quarters. While Epstein, personally, was in the backgroun...