by John Solomon and Steven Richards at Just the News
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s team responded to allegations she falsely accused two Democrats of benefiting from a prolific Democratic dark money donor with ties to disgraced financier Epstein.
The Justice Department alleged in a letter to the Senate on Wednesday night that Democrat megadonor and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman has funneled dark money through his network to benefit two U.S. senators who portray themselves as crusaders against such unaccountable contributions.
The probe into Hoffman and his “political donor ecosystem” was spurred by a letter from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, following up on the Oct. 7 testimony of Attorney General Pam Bondi to the committee.
In exchanges with Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the committee’s top Democrat, and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., over the Epstein files, Bondi confronted the senators and accused them of taking campaign donations from Hoffman, which both later denied in a letter to Grassley.
Hoffman’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein, who died a disgraced financier and sex offender, were previously reported as early as 2019.
Durbin, Whitehouse and nine other Democratic senators accused Bondi of deflecting questions about the Epstein files by falsely accusing Durbin and Whitehouse of receiving campaign contributions from Hoffman.
“[Bondi] sidestepped questions about her role in the Jeffrey Epstein coverup by falsely accusing Ranking Member Durbin and Senator Whitehouse of taking campaign donations from Reid Hoffman,” the Democratic senators wrote in an Oct. 24 letter.
But, the Justice Department’s letter says publicly available evidence shows Durbin and Whitehouse have indeed appeared to benefit from the largesse of Hoffman’s political contributions to PACs and campaign committees.
“[The] evidence paints a clear picture that Reid Hoffman has established a dark-money empire that channels anonymous donations through nonprofits and PACs to influence federal elections and judicial nominations,” Assistant Attorney General Patrick Davis wrote to Grassley.
“Additionally, Ranking Member Durbin, Senator Whitehouse, and other Senate Judiciary Committee members have apparently benefited from this system, and their continued public attacks on ‘dark money’ while accepting Mr. Hoffman’s indirect financial support are troubling,” he also wrote.
You can read the letter here:…
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