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> Lee Fang article Part 3

> “If you would share this invitation with Jeffrey I’d be much appreciative,” wrote Plaskett on July 12, 2018, over email to Kellerhals and Lesley Groff, beckoning the financier to a New York City fundraiser with Michael Bloomberg. Groff was Epstein’s personal assistant, who has been accused of helping Epstein recruit underage girls.

> “I would be grateful for his support and the support of those that he may direct to assist me," Plaskett continued, in an email that was subsequently forwarded to Epstein.

> Less than two weeks after the exchange, Epstein wrote a $2,700 check to Plaskett. Later that year, Yolonda Addison, then a Plaskett consultant who now serves as executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus PAC, continued to write to Epstein, requesting his support at several Plaskett campaign fundraising events.

> During her deposition, Plaskett revealed that she had also traveled to Epstein’s Upper East Side residency in the fall of 2018 for another fundraising venture. She answered, “I don’t know,” to most questions about the meeting, but described some details of her memories from the visit. "Someone opening the door, coming into a large foyer area, meeting Lesley Groff, telling me that he would be with me," recalled Plaskett in her testimony.

> The meeting provided an opportunity for Plaskett to request $30,000 from Epstein for the DCCC, the campaign arm of House Democrats. Following the meeting, Plaskett conferred with her staff for a follow-up email for Kellerhals to pass along a fundraising appeal to Epstein.

> The DCCC, however, refused the donation from Epstein, given his well-known record at the time of trafficking young women