Stacey Plaskett

Stacey Plaskett is the nonvoting Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from the U.S. Virgin Islands’ at-large congressional district, a position she has held since January 3, 2015. Reporting on the Epstein files indicates that she received $30,000 in campaign contributions from Jeffrey Epstein in 2018 and, after his July 2019 arrest on sex-trafficking charges, announced she would donate the funds to organizations supporting women and families.

According to ABC News, released documents showed that on February 27, 2019 — the day former Trump attorney Michael Cohen testified before the House Oversight Committee — Plaskett exchanged text messages with Epstein, who provided her information ahead of her questioning of Cohen. ABC News and Newsweek report that Epstein flagged Cohen’s mention of longtime Trump aide Rhona Graff, describing her as the “keeper of the secrets,” and that Epstein later messaged “Good work.” ABC News reported that on November 18, 2025, the House voted 209-214-3 against a resolution to censure Plaskett and remove her from the House Intelligence Committee over the texts.

Plaskett has defended the exchange. ABC News quoted her telling CNN, “I believed that Jeffrey Epstein had information, and I was going to get information to get at the truth,” and adding, “Having a friendship with him is not something that I would deem to have.” On the House floor, per ABC News, she said she “began to get innumerous texts from friends, from foes, from constituents,” including one from Epstein, “who at the time, was my constituent, who … was sharing information with me.” Newsweek reported that her office said she “received texts from staff, constituents and the public at large offering advice, support and in some cases partisan vitriol, including from Epstein.”

Is Stacey Plaskett in the Epstein files?

Yes. Released records and reporting reviewed for this profile document that Stacey Plaskett exchanged text messages with Jeffrey Epstein during the February 27, 2019, House Oversight Committee hearing at which Michael Cohen testified, and that Epstein supplied her with information used in her questioning. A 2025 House resolution to censure her over the texts failed. Plaskett has said she sought information to “get at the truth” and has noted that Epstein, who owned property in the U.S. Virgin Islands, was a constituent at the time. Being named in or connected to the Epstein files is not, by itself, evidence of any crime or wrongdoing.

Documents

Primary-source records that name or reference Stacey Plaskett. Inclusion in these documents is not, by itself, evidence of wrongdoing; Plaskett has said she was seeking information and was not censured by the House.

• House Oversight Committee — additional Epstein estate documents (2025) — Per The Washington Post and NPR (Nov. 2025), this 20,000-page release of Epstein estate records includes the text exchange in which Epstein fed Plaskett information — including a reference to Rhona Graff as “keeper of the secrets” — during the February 27, 2019 hearing at which Michael Cohen testified, followed by Epstein’s message “Good work.”