STACY PLASKET HELPED AN DEFENDED Jeffrey Epstein's
https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-island-politics-stacey-plaskett-2023-6
https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-island-politics-stacey-plaskett-2023-6
'Maximum amounts allowed': How Jeffrey Epstein's political donations won him and his 'pedophile island' a powerful ally IN STACY PLASKET
Now-dead pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein and Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett of the US Virgin Islands.
It was 2018, and Rep. Stacey Plaskett was running for reelection in Congress. She expected to win a third term easily, running unopposed in both the Democratic primary and the general election.
The US Virgin Islands, where Plaskett is from, doesn't have normal congressional representation. Like Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico, it has a nonvoting delegate. She can serve on committees but doesn't have any say when the full House of Representatives votes on a bill.
One part of her job, however, is the same as that of every other Democrat in Congress: She's expected to fundraise for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. That year's campaign cycle, the committee gave her a target of around $250,000 to raise for the organization, which recruits and supports candidates for the party, she said in a deposition taken earlier this year.
Plaskett had a list of people to ask for money. It included previous donors, alumni, and "individuals who were interested in the same topics for which committees I sat on," she said in the deposition.
On that list, she said, was Jeffrey Epstein.
A financier worth hundreds of millions of dollars, Epstein owned two islands in the US Virgin Islands (there are roughly 50 islands overall). His main residence, on the island of Little St. James, was lavishly furnished in the style of a resort. He had even shipped in more sand and palm trees to make it look exactly as he desired. Plaskett wanted to persuade Epstein to donate $30,000, the maximum amount an individual could donate to a national campaign committee at the time.
There was just one issue for Plaskett. Epstein was a convicted sex offender, having pleaded guilty 11 years earlier to soliciting sex from a minor. Law enforcement had separately concluded he sexually abused scores of underage girls at his home in Palm Beach, Florida. But, with the help of high-powered lawyers, Epstein got a light sentence.
For two decades, Epstein had also flexed his political muscles and exerted control in the US Virgin Islands' halls of power. New court documents show how the territory's first lady steered him through political waters, guiding donations to key politicians. Epstein weighed in on an overhaul of sex-offender laws, considered putting a lawmaker "on retainer," and made a customs office look the other way by simply buying all 78 staff members turkeys for Thanksgiving, court filings say.Plaskett, though, was focused on hitting her $250,000 goal. A $30,000 donation was a feasible ask for Epstein. He had donated generously to Democratic politicians from the US Virgin Islands for years. In exchange, recent court filings say, he got $300 million in tax incentives and was able to fly girls to his islands without customs batting an eye.
And Plaskett had taken Epstein's money before, for her own campaign.
Earlier that year, on July 12, Plaskett sent an email to Epstein's assistant Lesley Groff, inviting the pedophile to a fundraiser for her campaign. She said she would be "grateful" for whatever support Epstein could provide.
Epstein responded just two minutes later in his typically typo-marred prose.
'We would have a friend in Stacey'
Epstein kept up the generosity. In September that year, a consultant on Plaskett's campaign invited Epstein to two dinners on St. Thomas and St. Croix, the two main islands in the US Virgin Islands, emails show. Epstein swiftly promised he would donate the "max" but said he didn't want his name attached.
At some point in fall 2018, Plaskett visited Epstein at his Manhattan mansion. Plaskett said Groff greeted her at the foyer and brought her to Epstein, who was sitting at a long dining-room table. He agreed to give the full $30,000 that Plaskett had asked him to contribute to the DCCC.
The committee ended up rejecting the donation
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