Plaskett Seeks to Dismiss Doe Suit; Judge Denies Plaintiffs’ Bid for Sealed Records in JPMorgan Case

V.I. Delegate to Congress Stacey Plaskett has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against her and other territory officials by six Jeffrey Epstein victims, saying she was horrified to learn of his crimes along with the rest of the country and “is equally horrified to now be accused of complicity in his crimes, without any factual basis or justification.”

A memorandum of law accompanying Plaskett’s motion to dismiss calls the plaintiffs’ “wild allegations so unsupportable they cannot even credibly claim to be speculative — instead they are the product of pure fantasy … and are typified by a lack of specificity, logic, or common sense.”

The class action suit, first filed in November by Jane Does 1-5 in Manhattan federal court, amended in December to add a sixth plaintiff and then again on May 10, accuses the V.I. government of violating the Trafficking Victims Protection Act in a sprawling conspiracy to aid in Epstein’s sex-trafficking scheme.