Onetime visitor on Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘pedophile island’ donates almost $700K to Biden marketing campaign fund

A joint fundraising committee elevating {dollars} for President Biden’s re-election effort obtained a big donation from a tech billionaire revealed to have as soon as traveled to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s non-public island within the Caribbean.

LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman dumped $699,600 into the Biden Victory Fund warfare chest, a joint fundraising committee approved by the Biden marketing campaign, in April, federal election records show.

The donation got here one week earlier than The Wall Street Journal reported Hoffman had visited the late serial sexual predator’s US Virgin Islands compound in 2014.

The shut timing of the donation and the article was first reported by Fox News on Sunday.

Hoffman, 55, had reportedly deliberate on returning to the island with Epstein later in 2014 earlier than touring to Boston to boost funds for MIT on behalf of fellow island journey attendee Joi Ito, a then-media lab director on the institute.

Ito confirmed to the Journal that “Reid attended a couple of fundraising occasions at my request, together with one journey to Little St. James.”

Hoffman informed the paper he had “relied on MIT’s endorsement” of Epstein however “in the end.. made the error,” including he was “sorry for my private misjudgment.”

“My final interplay with Epstein was in 2015. Nonetheless, by agreeing to take part in any fundraising exercise the place Epstein was current, I helped to restore his repute and perpetuate injustice,” Hoffman mentioned in 2019, after it was revealed he invited Epstein to a Silicon Valley dinner with tech business leaders.

It got here after Epstein, a registered intercourse offender, had pleaded responsible in 2008 to prices of soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution in Florida.

Hoffman’s political donations have raised eyebrows prior to now. He was pressured to situation an apology for funding a gaggle that falsely tried to tie Republican US Senate hopeful Roy Moore to the Russian authorities, based on Fox Information Digital.

His newest donation pales to the $1.5 million he gave to a Biden tremendous PAC in 2020, along with the most particular person greenback quantity allowed to the Democrat’s marketing campaign.

The well-heeled donor reportedly visited the White Home 5 occasions final 12 months.

Hoffman was not the primary notable visitor on Little St. James — the positioning of alleged sickening abuse of women as younger as 12 by Epstein and his gal pal, convicted intercourse trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

Prince Andrew admitted to being a visitor on the compound, which really consists of two islands. The disgraced royal’s sex abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre has additionally mentioned she noticed Invoice Clinton there, a declare the former president denies.

One Epstein sufferer has mentioned she was so desperate to escape Little St. James, she tried to swim via shark infested waters to St. Thomas after being raped 3 times in a day.

The 70-acre property was bought for $60 million earlier in 2023, 4 years after Epstein was discovered to have killed himself inside his Manhattan jail cell whereas awaiting trial on federal intercourse trafficking prices.