Denise George Tries And Fails To Depose Darren Indyke And Richard Kahn

Denise George’s effort to force Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn to sit for depositions in the U.S. Virgin Islands’ civil enforcement action ran into a major procedural roadblock when the court refused to compel the testimony on the timetable she wanted. George, then the Virgin Islands attorney general, had targeted Indyke and Kahn because of their central roles in Jeffrey Epstein’s financial and legal affairs, arguing that their testimony was necessary to understand how Epstein’s entities operated and whether his estate and associates had participated in conduct covered by the territory’s CICO claims. But the court found that the government had not established a sufficient basis to override the procedural protections and sequencing issues raised by the defendants, leaving George without the immediate depositions she had sought.


The setback was significant because Indyke and Kahn were not peripheral figures in the litigation. As longtime Epstein advisers and later co-executors of his estate, they were positioned to possess information about the companies, money flows and decisions that George’s office was trying to trace. Her inability to depose them at that stage limited the government’s ability to question them directly under oath and underscored how aggressively the defendants were contesting discovery. It did not end the broader CICO case, but it deprived George of one of the most obvious avenues for testing the documentary record against the testimony of two men who sat near the center of Epstein’s financial structure.


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