New York Post

PERV’S FLIER ALARM

Feds slap subpoenas on Epstein pilots

- By LARRY CELONA, ANDREW DENNEY and BRUCE GOLDING

Jeffrey Epstein’s pilots were slapped with federal grand-jury subpoenas after refusing to cooperate with authoritie­s, The Post has learned.

The feds want to know who was on board Epstein’s plane during certain flights, but the pilots “lawyered up” and wouldn’t answer questions when they were contacted, law-enforcemen­t sources said Friday.

The pilots were served with the subpoenas earlier this month, following the multimilli­onaire financier’s July 6 arrest on conspiracy and child-sex-traffickin­g charges, according to The Wall Street Journal, which first reported on the subpoenas.

Revelation of the subpoenas came a day after a Manhattan federal court filing disclosed that prosecutor­s were conducting an “ongoing investigat­ion of uncharged individual­s” tied to the convicted pedophile.

The Journal didn’t identify the pilots who were subpoenaed but said a lawyer for one confirmed receipt.

Epstein, 66, was busted at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey following a private-plane flight from Paris.

Companies controlled by Epstein own “at least two private jets in active service, at least one of which is capable of interconti­nental travel,” prosecutor­s wrote in a court filing earlier this month.

In response, Epstein’s lawyers said he sold one of the planes in June and was willing to ground the other if granted bail — a request denied last week by a judge who said Epstein appeared to have an “uncontroll­able” attraction to underage girls.

One plane — a Boeing 727 nicknamed the “Lolita Express” — was customized to carry 29 passengers and was outfitted with a queensized bed, a red velvet sofa and a shower, according to The Sun.

Epstein has employed four pilots and flight engineers — David Rodgers, Larry Visoski, Larry Morrison and Bill Hammond — according to the Journal, which cited informatio­n from civil lawsuits filed against Epstein by alleged sex-abuse victims. None of the four responded to requests for comment from The Post.

Visoski formerly maintained an Instagram account that he used to document his travels, but he deleted it last week, according to the Washington Examiner. Visoski posted photos from across the country and the US Virgin Islands, where Epstein owns a private island called Little St. John, as well as the Caribbean, Europe, Mexico and the Middle East, the Examiner said.

Epstein didn’t appear or get mentioned in any of the posts, but there were photos of his planes and helicopter­s, the Examiner said.

He’s being held at the infamous Metropolit­an Correction­al Center in lower Manhattan, where officials on Tuesday found him nearly unconsciou­s and with bruises on his neck, sources have said.

Cellmate Nicholas Tartaglion­e, a hulking ex-cop who faces the death penalty in four drug-related killings, denied any involvemen­t, sources said.

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