{"id":38120,"date":"2025-11-19T00:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/38120\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T00:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:38:08","slug":"house-republicans-push-to-remove-usvi-delegate-from-intel-committee-over-texting-epstein-during-hearing-washington-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/38120\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans Push to Remove USVI Delegate from Intel Committee Over Texting Epstein During Hearing | Washington D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 The US Virgin Islands\u2019 Delegate, Stacey Plaskett (D- USVI),\u00a0could be removed from her spot on the coveted\u00a0House\u00a0Intelligence\u00a0Committee after new reports revealed she <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.house.gov\/billsthisweek\/20251117\/Norman%20Censure%20Res.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">texted with\u00a0disgraced financier\u00a0Jeffrey\u00a0Epstein\u00a0<\/a>during a congressional hearing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Washington\u00a0Post reported after\u00a0additional\u00a0files were released by\u00a0Epstein\u2019s\u00a0estate, it showed the pair were texting during a\u00a0House\u00a0Oversight\u00a0Committee hearing that questioned\u00a0Trump\u2019s associate,\u00a0Michael\u00a0Cohen,\u00a0in 2019.\u00a0Epstein\u00a0is the late financier\u00a0and convicted sex offender\u00a0with ties to the powerful elite.\u00a0The report\u00a0stated\u00a0Epstein\u00a0helped her with potential questions to ask during the hearing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Epstein has ties to the\u00a0USVI.\u00a0He\u00a0had a residence\u00a0on\u00a0Little\u00a0Saint\u00a0James.\u00a0Plaskett has previously been in hot water over\u00a0Epstein\u00a0after reports that she was\u00a0one of several politicians in the territory where\u00a0Epstein\u00a0donated a lot of money.\u00a0Plaskett said she gave\u00a0Epstein\u2019s\u00a0donations away to women\u2019s organizations in her community after she learned about\u00a0his\u00a0actions\u00a0during the investigations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Plaskett took to the house floor to defend herself.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve\u00a0taken a text exchange which shows no participation, no\u00a0assistance, no involvement in any illegal activity, and weaponized it for political theater because\u00a0that\u2019s\u00a0what this is,\u201d said Del. Plaskett.\u00a0\u201cThis has been reviewed by federal courts. Any\u00a0charges\u00a0victims who initially had a case against me dismissed it on their own without prejudice. You\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0want to talk about what is really happening here. Your attacks on working families, your protection of powerful\u00a0predators\u00a0and corporate criminals. You want to talk about\u00a0texting,\u00a0texting felons?\u00a0How often do you text President Donald J. Trump?\u00a0That\u2019s\u00a0the individual we should be concerned about.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the\u00a0House\u00a0Resolution, it would censure\u00a0Plaskett\u00a0for inappropriate coordination with convicted sex offender\u00a0Jeffrey\u00a0Epstein and launches an ethics probe into her ties to\u00a0Epstein.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 The US Virgin Islands\u2019 Delegate, Stacey Plaskett (D- USVI),\u00a0could be removed from her spot on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2288,136,138,137,2287,2286,2289],"class_list":["post-38120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-bureau","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-u-s-capitol","tag-washington-d-c","tag-washington-d-c-bureau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}