Stacey E. Plaskett solicited donations from Jeffrey E. Epstein- Email
FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI- "Epstein was a reprehensible person and I'm truly disgusted by his actions," Congressional Delegate Stacey E. Plaskett said earlier this month, speaking out after filings in the ongoing lawsuit between the Government of the Virgin Islands and JPMorgan brought her acceptance of Jeffrey E. Epstein’s donations to her political campaigns to the fore once again.
Ms Plaskett said that she was unaware of Epstein’s campaign contributions until after it was reported in the press subsequent to her campaign’s federal filing. However, newly unsealed evidence submitted by JPMorgan’s legal team show that Delegate Plaskett in 2018, had personally requested that an invitation to her Bloomberg fundraiser be sent to Epstein. “I would be grateful for his support and the support of those that he may direct to assist me," she wrote.
The email was reportedly sent in July of 2018, just about a year before Epstein was arrested on sex trafficking charges. However, he was being investigated since March 2005 in Florida after the family of a 14-year-old girl reported that she was molested at his mansion. And in 2008, he pleaded guilty to one count of soliciting prostitution and one count of soliciting prostitution from someone under the age of 18. Additionally, at this point, multiple women had spent approximately a decade claiming that they had been groomed, trafficked and abused by the owner of Little St. James and his network of powerful friends.
'Bad fundraising decision'- Plaskett
It was a “bad fundraising decision” said Delegate Plaskett, when she appeared on WTJX FM talkshow “Analyze This” on June 8.
The unsealed documents add detail to JPMorgan’s claims that Epstein deliberately and methodically cultivated an influential network of politically powerful Virgin Islanders who he thought would help cushion him from the worst effects of his sex offender status.
Plaskett denies ever leveraging her position to aid Epstein's business or illegal activities, and no such claims are being made by JPMorgan’s attorneys, or suggested in the documentary evidence they have submitted before the court.
While the government may be able to prove its case that JPMorgan facilitated Mr. Epstein’s continued sex trafficking operations by negligently failing to report suspicious transactions, the documents unearthed in the ongoing lawsuit raise serious questions about the character, integrity, and judgment of some of the highest-ranking members of the territory’s political class.
At the beginning of the week, JPMorgan settled a separate lawsuit for almost $300 million. The suit, brought by an anonymous woman, claimed that the bank facilitated Mr. Epstein’s crimes by failing to flag his suspicious transactions.
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10 Responses to “Stacey E. Plaskett solicited donations from Jeffrey E. Epstein- Email”
If she were a Republican, they would close ranks and call this baseless allegations, saying the forms were forged by a weaponized legal team controlled by the Biden crime family.
I'm really disappointed by this. Some of Plaskett's work on congressional committees was breathtaking.