House Dem Stacey Plaskett took campaign money from Jeffery Epstein AFTER his conviction of soliciting prostitution of a minor

Stacey Plaskett, the Democratic congressional delegate representing the US Virgin Islands, won her election in 2014. She may owe her victory in part to Jeffery Epstein's donations, which were found to have come in after his conviction of solicitation of prostitution of a minor in 2008.

Emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show that Plaskett, in communications with Epstein's previous assistant, Lesley Groff, seeking support from Epstein. "If you would share this invitation with Jeffrey I'd be much appreciative. I would be grateful for his support and the support of those that he may direct to assist me," Plaskett wrote in the July 12, 2018 email.



The amount of money that Epstein gave to Plaskett, according to the email, was $5,400. Half was to go to her primary and half to the general election. 

On June 8, Plaskett conceded that it was a "bad fundraising decision" on the show, Analyze This, on WTJX-FM in the Virgin Islands. 

However, the real start to the connection with Epstein started in 2014 with the Virgin Islands governor's wife, Cecile de Jongh. 

De Jongh was the First Lady of the Virgin Islands at the time, but also served as Epstein's office manager. It appears that the idea to help Plaskett may have come originally from de Jongh. She insisted, back in 2014, that Epstein needed to help Paskett.

De Jongh wrote to Epstein in 2014, "Your help is needed. We are trying to get Stacey Plaskett elected to Congress. Shawn Malone (current senate president) is running against her in the Democratic primary in August."

"Shawn is the one that came after you in the senate hearing last week. He is nasty and needs to be defeated and we would have a friend in Stacey," the 2014 email continued. 

DeJongh then inquired to Epstein, because of the legal limit of $2,600 in individual campaign donations, "Do you think any of your friends would give to her campaign," asking for $75,000 in total donations.
 

The emails were revealed as part of court documents in the lawsuit the Virgin Islands filed against JP Morgan.

In a May 9 deposition, Plaskett said she met with Epstein in his New York City townhouse in September of 2018 to discuss a potential $30,000 donation to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. This meeting would occur less than a year before Epstein would be arrested on federal charges for the sex trafficking of minors that placed him in jail, where he would later be found dead. 

In a June 18 appearance on MSNBC, Plaskett was heard telling the host that 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump needs "to be shot," before correcting herself and saying he needs to be "stopped."

Plaskett also called for the jailing of Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi in April, accusing him of lying under oath for saying CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) instead of CIS (Center for Internet Security) during his testimony.