A joint fundraising committee raising dollars for President Biden’s re-election effort received a large donation from a tech billionaire revealed to have once traveled to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean.
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman dumped $699,600 into the Biden Victory Fund war chest, a joint fundraising committee authorized by the Biden campaign, in April, federal election records show.
The donation came one week before The Wall Street Journal reported Hoffman had visited the late serial sexual predator’s US Virgin Islands compound in 2014.
The close timing of the donation and the article was first reported by Fox News on Sunday.
Hoffman, 55, had reportedly planned on returning to the island with Epstein later in 2014 before traveling to Boston to raise funds for MIT on behalf of fellow island trip attendee Joi Ito, a then-media lab director at the institute.
Ito confirmed to the Journal that “Reid attended a few fundraising events at my request, including one trip to Little St. James.”
Hoffman told the paper he had “relied on MIT’s endorsement” of Epstein but “ultimately.. made the mistake,” adding he was “sorry for my personal misjudgment.”
“My last interaction with Epstein was in 2015. Still, by agreeing to participate in any fundraising activity where Epstein was present, I helped to repair his reputation and perpetuate injustice,” Hoffman said in 2019, after it was revealed he invited Epstein to a Silicon Valley dinner with tech industry leaders.
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It came after Epstein, a registered sex offender, had pleaded guilty in 2008 to charges of soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution in Florida.
Hoffman’s political donations have raised eyebrows in the past. He was forced to issue an apology for funding a group that falsely tried to tie Republican US Senate hopeful Roy Moore to the Russian government, according to Fox News Digital.
His latest donation pales to the $1.5 million he gave to a Biden super PAC in 2020, in addition to the maximum individual dollar amount allowed to the Democrat’s campaign.
The well-heeled donor reportedly visited the White House five times last year.
Hoffman was not the first notable guest on Little St. James — the site of alleged sickening abuse of girls as young as 12 by Epstein and his gal pal, convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
Prince Andrew admitted to being a guest on the compound, which actually consists of two islands. The disgraced royal’s sex abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre has also said she saw Bill Clinton there, a claim the former president denies.
One Epstein victim has said she was so desperate to escape Little St. James, she tried to swim through shark infested waters to St. Thomas after being raped three times in a day.
The 70-acre property was bought for $60 million earlier in 2023, four years after Epstein was found to have killed himself inside his Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.
