The Story of the Dem Who Texted with Epstein During Hearing Just Got a Lot More Sordid

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Delegate Stacey Plaskett, a non-voting member of Congress from the Virgin Islands, shot to fame several weeks ago, when it came to light that during a Congressional hearing in Feb. 2019, she was exchanging texts with none other than Jeffrey Epstein, and even asking him for direction about how to conduct her questioning of Trump’s executive assistant, Rhona Graff. To be taking advice from Jeffrey Epstein would be sordid enough for a lifetime, but Plaskett’s story has just gotten a good deal odder and sleazier than that.

The Daily Wire reported Sunday, with a matter-of-factness that is positively breathtaking under the circumstances, that Plaskett “had ‘private nude images’ of her stolen by her own ex-staffers, who used them to attempt to sabotage her re-election campaign. The husband of one of the culprits was, like Epstein, later found dead.” With all that going on, what’s a little texting with Jeffrey Epstein?

It all started, apparently, innocently enough back in March 2016, when Plaskett’s iPhone wasn’t working properly, and she asked one of her staffers, a certain Juan R. McCullum, to repair it. While he had possession of the respected delegate’s phone, McCullum availed himself of the opportunity to see what she was up to in her off hours, and he struck paydirt: “After snooping around,” says the Daily Wire, “McCullum found nude images and videos, including one of her husband naked and wearing makeup while their young child was in the room.” Oh, dear.

The existence of the images is not in doubt. Court papers in the cyberstalking case against McCullum state that “Delegate S.P.’s [that’s Stacey Plaskett, of course] iPhone contained private nude images and videos of both Delegate S.P. and Delegate S.P.’s husband, J.B.S. (collectively, in whole or in part, ‘the Nude Images and Videos’).” As you might expect, Plaskett did not at any point give McCullum “permission or consent to take, copy, or distribute any information on her iPhone, including the Nude Images and Videos.”

Nevertheless, the dastardly McCullum “created a Hotmail email account using the fictitious name ‘Susan Ricenville’” and used it to send “at least eleven email messages to multiple persons, including politicians, members of the media, and other persons” whom Plaskett knew. In at least ten of these emails, McCullum attached one or more of the salacious photos he had purloined from Plaskett’s phone.

The Daily Wire explains that police discovered that McCullum “had communicated with another former Plaskett staffer, Dorene Browne-Louis, who had gone on to work for the Department of Homeland Security.” For some unexplained reason, McCullum had grown disgruntled with Plaskett, and wrote to Browne-Louis: “Somebody will pay for how we were treated.” That would certainly explain why he worked so assiduously at distributing the nude photos.

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