Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
Back in twenty nineteen, when the Jeffrey Epstein case was
exploding for the second time, all we heard about was
Alexander Acosta. This Alexander Acosta that, as if Alexander Acosta
was mister primetime and mister powerful. Meanwhile, Alexander Acosta was
nothing more than a yes man with a slinky for
a spine, But somehow he was elevated to the arch
criminal of this whole entire or deal. Well, folks, I
have news for you. He is not the arch criminal,
and he is not the mastermind behind Jeffrey Epstein's sweetheart deal.
He's the fall guy. He was the guy that happened
to be in charge in Florida when his bosses told
him to make this deal. He didn't just wake up
and say to himself, you know what, I'm gonna give
Epstein this sweetheart deal and I'm not gonna tell anybody
else about it. Remember, his boss has had to sign
off on it, and anybody who's ever worked in a
bureaucracy knows that middle management does not have the power
to do anything. Now, let's hit fast forward to twenty
twenty three, and let's talk about Stacey Plaskett, you know,
miss US Virgin Islands herself. Well, more information's coming out
now about Jeffrey Epstein and his relationship with Stacy Plaskett
and how he helped her pull off one of the
hugest upsets in US Virgin Islands political history. Today's article
is from the Insider headline how Jeffrey Epstein turned the
US Virgin Islands into a pedophile's playground and helped elect
a sitting member of Congress. This article was authored by
Jacob Shamsy in Now, how in the hell does somebody
connected to Jeffrey Epstein get a prominent position on the
January sixth committee? Can somebody please explain that to me?
If anything, Stacy Plaskett should have been sitting on the
other side of a commission answering questions about her relationship
with Jeffrey Epstein. But considering we live in a world
that's upside down and driven purely on party politics, that
didn't occur. It was twenty eighteen and Representative Stacy 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. Nothing like having some choice,
huh down in the US Virgin Islands somebody who took
money from Epstein or nobody else. Hell of a choice
down there in the USVII. Maybe they can use some
of that one hundred and five million that day Pilford
to get things in order down on the island. But
somehow I have a funny feeling that that money is
never gonna make its way to the people of the
Virgin Islands. The US Virgin Islands, where Plasket is from,
doesn't have normal congressional representation like Washington, D D and
Puerto Rico. It has a non voting delegate. She can
serve on committees, but doesn't have any say when the
full House of Representatives votes on a bill. But meanwhile
she has to say of sitting on that J six
commission that's never sat right with me. Imagine having Acosta
sitting on that commission. How would you feel about that?
And if you're okay with one but not the other,
then you, my friend, are part of the problem. 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 two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars 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 none other than Jeffrey Epstein,
a financier pedophile worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Epstein
owned two islands in the US Virgin Islands. There are
roughly fifty islands overall. His main residence, on the island
off Little Saint 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 thirty thousand dollars,
the maximum amount an individual could donate to a national
campaign committee at the time. Well, how about that A
night thirty thousand dollars donation solicited from Jeffrey Epstein after
he was already a convicted pedophile. There was just one
issue for Plasket, and it wasn't that he was a
convicted sex offender. By the way, Epstein was a convicted
sex offender pleaded guilty eleven 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.
Plaskett was focused on hitting her two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars goal. So it's just endemic to how broken
the political structure is here in America. They don't care
where they get this money from. And then after they
get it from some undesirable scumbag who ends up getting outed,
they'll say, oh, well, we donated it to this charity
or that charity, and then everybody just drops it and
moves on. Well, not me. I want to know why
you accepted the money in the first place. Is it
really that important that you raise this money for the
Democratic Party? That you're taking money from one of the
biggest human traffickers in history, And if you think it's
okay and you think it's acceptable. Once again, you are
part of the problem. Plaskett was focused on hitting her
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars goal. A 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 three hundred million dollars
in tax incentives and was able to fly girls to
his islands without customs. Batting an eye and just let
that sink in. Just let it sink in that Jeffrey
Epstein had all of these politicians that happened to be
in the Democratic Party down in the US Virgin Islands
in his pocket and their enabling of his bullshit directly
led to these girls being abused. Now tell me how
you can support Stacy Plaskett as a politician, and if
you still do, once again, you're part of the problem.
With the assistance of the US Virgin Islands first Lady,
Epstein navigated the territory's political waters unscathed. He weighed in
on an overhaul of sex offender laws, considered putting a
lawmaker on retainer, and made a Customs Office looked the
other way by simply buying all seventy eight staff members
turkeys for Thanksgiving. Court filings say, what is he? Nino
Brown from New Jack City shows up with a truck
full of turkeys and gives them out to all the
crackheads and poor people. But in this instance, the crackheads
and the poor people happened to be the politicians that
were on the take. After all, Plaskett had taken Epstein's
money before for her own campaign. Earlier last year, on
July twelfth, Plasket sent an email to Epstein's assistant Leslie Groff,
inviting the pedophile to a fundraiser for her campaign. She
said she would be grateful for whatever support Epstein could provide. Hello, everybody,
are you paying attention? This same lady that was up
there on her ivory tower talking about people being terrorists
is over here inviting a pedophile to her fundraiser. If
you don't see the problem with that, then I can't
help you. Epstein responded just two minutes later, and is
typically typo mard prose. Epstein always had typos in like
every single email. And he's one of these so called
smart people who don't know how to spell. He wrote,
get maximum amounts aloud, so basically saying that's what he'll do.
He'll get maximum amounts allowed for Stacy Plasket. We would
have a friend in Stacey. Epstein kept up the generosity.
In September that year, a consultant on Plasket's campaign invited
Epstein to two dinners on Saint Thomas and Saint 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, and Plaskett was
cool with it. Yeah, that's cool, don't attach your name.
We'll take your money anyway, even though you're a pedophile.
At some point in the fall of twenty eighteen, Plasket
visited Epstein at his Manhattan mansion. Plasket said Groff greeted
her at the foyer and brought to Epstein, who was
sitting at a long dining room table. He agreed to
give the full thirty thousand dollars that Plaskett had asked
him to donate to the Democratic Party. The committee ended
up rejecting the donation. Yeah, well, the smartest thing they did.
But what Stacey Plaskett's excuse he had not passed their vetting.
Plasket said in the deposition, I was informed by my
chief of staff that the DCCC informed him that mister
Epstein's contribution would not be accepted by the DCCC. A
representative for Plaskett didn't respond to multiple requests for comment,
So that's certainly a good sign from the DCCC. They
can hang their hat on that. But Plaskett, on the
other hand, she has no excuse, and there's no amount
of gas lighting or misdirection that I'm going to accept
from anybody until this lady is really called on the carpet.
Just a few months after Plasket's twenty eighteen reelection, federal
prosecut in Manhattan brought a sex trafficking indictment against them.
He died in jail in twenty nineteen while awaiting trial,
so he had no other chance to donate to one
of Plasket's campaigns. She did, however, accept money from him
on previous occasions. Epstein donated five four hundred dollars to
plaskets campaigns in the twenty sixteen campaign cycle, hitting the
contribution limits for the primary and general elections. Federal Election
Commission record show he maxed out his donations to her
unopposed campaign in the twenty eighteen cycle as well. So
she's running unopposed, why does she need these donations? Oh,
that's right, she's gonna pocket it. Right. Let's not make
pretend that it's only some politicians who are corrupt. Anybody
who goes to DC and they have a net worth
of insert six figures here or whatever, and then they
leave there as millionaires, Well, I have to tell you
they're corrupt because they're only making a little bit of
How are you leaving there a millionaire? Five times over?
If you showed up, they're broke. His financial support of
Plaskett's political career stretched back to twenty fourteen, the first
year she won a seat in the House. It was
a close campaign in the Democratic Party primary. Plaskett, then
a lawyer for the Virgin Islands Economic Development Authority, was
running against Sewn Michael Malone, who held a powerful perch
as the president of the US Virgin Islands Senate. So
she was an up start running against this guy who
was entrenched in party politics. Do you really think she
could have won without the support of people like Epstein.
At that time, Epstein was getting political advice from Cecil
du Jong, the First Lady of the US Virgin Islands.
Her husband, John DeJong Junior, served as governor from two
thousand and seven to twenty fifteen. In addition to her
duties as First Lady, Cecil de Jong had a day
job at the Son Trust Company. Epstein claimed to use
the corporation for his philanthropic foundations, though several lawsuits have
alleged it served as a vehicle for his sex trafficking operation.
Well yeah, and it also served as a nice spot
for him to color up some of that laundered money.
Epstein appeared to be a generous employer, paying tuition for
Dejong's children in addition to her salary. Court record show
a representative for DeJong declined to make her available to comment.
So you think he just did that because he was
a great guy, or was he trying to buy a
political favor from her husband. You don't have to be
a great investigator here. You just have to be somebody
who is willing to look at this story and be
honest with how corrupt everybody involved is. And the second
you stop looking at it through the frame or the
lens of this political party, or that then you're going
to realize that the whole entire thing is rotten and
that ivory tower that all of these politicians stand on
is really built on a foundation of quicksand Malone. Dejean
wrote in a June twenty fourteen email to Epstein was
no fan of the financier pedophile. Dejeong pleaded for Epstein
to donate the Plaskets campaign and to ask his rich
friends to contribute more money. Malone, she said, had criticized
Epstein at a recent hearing. Sean is the one who
came after you in the Senate hearing last week, she wrote.
He is nasty and needs to be defeated. We would
have a friend in Stacy Well, isn't that nice? Got
yourselves a little friend in Stacy Plaskett. Jeffrey Epstein's defender
is Buddy All for the short price of selling your soul.
Epstein assented and offered the names of several associates who
might donate as well. Among those suggestions was Groff, along
with Epstein's lawyers Darren Dai and Richard Kahn, who became
his estate executors when he died. Five years later, all
of them donated the Plaskets campaign. FEC records reviewed by
Insiders show, now, do you think they donated their money
or do you think they donated Jeffrey Epstein's money? So
did Plaskett and her campaign return all of that money
as well? There's no evidence that Epstein reimbursed his associates
for their donations, but the remarks raised red flags for
Stuart mcphel, a lawyer for the government ethics watchdog Citizens
for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. I mean, come on, really,
no evidence. Okay, fine, no evidence, So it just didn't happen. Huh,
there's no evidence because the scumbags that are in power
have decided that it doesn't warrant the proper look. You
want evidence, make it a Rico case, and I promise you,
ever you last one of these people will be painted
with the scarlet letter. And that's why it's not a
Rico case. R Kelly Rico, Mark Rainiery Rico, everybody under
the sun. Rico, not Epstein, not Maxwell. I'll let you
figure out why. Mcfel told Insider that if Epstein was
using other people to bring more of his own money
into Plasket's campaign. It could amount to a straw donor
scheme and a legal practice of using a conduit to
make political donations on someone's behalf when they've exceeded campaign
finance limits. That's what was going on. Come on, you
think that a guy that was out here molesting kids
really has any kind of compunction about being involved in
a bundling scheme when it comes to political donations. There's
enough here to raise concern, and I think the question
should be asked if these individuals were actually the source,
mcfel said, And if they weren't, if this was actually
Jeffrey Epstein's money that was passed through them, then yes,
that would be an unlawful straw donor violation. Anybody care
about this, I'm I mean anybody out there cared to
put down their resentment of their neighbor for a minute
or of their supposed political enemy for a minute and
realize that they're all screwed up and that none of
them care about you. And all of the people that
were sitting here cheering about Stacy Plaskett and her role
during that committee. Do you still feel the same way?
Do you still think that Stacy Plasket should be some
arbiter of truth. When we're talking about something as serious
as calling people insurrectionists. Somebody that was taking money from
one of the most notorious pedophiles should not be passing
judgment on any other American citizen, Okay, point blank period.
A lawyer representing Endike and Khan said they weren't reimbursed
for the donations. An attorney representing Groff didn't respond to
her request for a comment. Well, I guess I should
just believe what Indike and Khan have to say. Huh.
Those dudes another group of people that should just be
listened to and believed without any ques questioning, said nobody. Ever.
The August twenty fourteen primary was a close race, and
there's no doubt that Epstein's money helped push her across
the finish line. Here. There is no doubt about it.
And my question is is anybody going to recognize this
and is saety Plasket going to face the kind of
scrutiny that say somebody like alex Acosta faced, because she
most certainly should. All Right, folks, that's gonna do it
for part one of this episode. Part two is on
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