Nebraska Senate candidate Dan Osborn cancels fundraiser after co-host's Epstein link surfaces
This must have come as a shock to Dan Osborn judging by his twitter feed.
Democratic operative Dana Chasin did not respond to requests for comment about his appearance in DOJ files.
Daniel Lippman
02/10/2026, 6:04pm ETUpdated: 02/10/2026, 11:52pm ET
Nebraska Senate candidate Dan Osborn abruptly canceled a Tuesday fundraiser that was set to be co-hosted by a Democratic operative who was mentioned in the recently released Jeffrey Epstein files as allegedly transporting young girls for the late convicted sex offender.
Dana Chasin — a Rockefeller heir who advised Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign as well as former Sens. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) — was listed on an invitation for the Washington event benefiting Osborn, who is running against GOP Sen. Pete Ricketts as an independent.
His name appears in a March 2024 email sent to a Justice Department attorney by Jeanne Christensen, a lawyer representing a young unnamed woman who alleged Chasin flew her on a private plane to Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse for sex with powerful men. The email, which details allegations of sexual abuse, also mentions a second flight with Chasin but does not make a direct accusation against him.
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POLITICO asked the Osborn campaign Tuesday afternoon whether it was aware of Chasin’s name surfacing in the files. “This event has been cancelled,” a spokesperson replied.
“Anyone who hurt kids or engaged in other illegal activity needs to be arrested and prosecuted,” the statement continued.
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https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/02/10/congress/dan-osborn-dana-chasin-fundraiser-00775138
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1) No apparent police report
2) No apparent sworn victim affidavit (which can be done anonymously)
3) No apparent known lawsuit from this alleged victim
4) Chasin does not appear to have either owned a plane, nor had a pilot's license
5) Chasin's name does not appear to be in any other Epstein document that's been released, and there's no obvious news article talking about them at the same place at the same time.
6) The actual email (that's all this is) does not appear to be publicly available, so all stories about this are based on "Politico's word about what they read"
7) If the Email contained any dates, other passengers on the plane, or explicit age of the victim, Politico didn't think to include them.
8) A prosecutor’s memo in the newly released Epstein files notes that Brad Edwards (lead counsel for the Epstein victims in the JPMorgan case) opposed adding one of Jeanne Christensen’s Leon Black clients to the $290 million JPMorgan settlement, telling prosecutors there was no corroboration for her claims about Epstein, Maxwell, and Black and calling the list of men she said she’d been trafficked to “incredible.”
As powerful as the words "young woman", "Epstein", and "sex with powerful men" are to our collective conscience, it might be wise to take this particular Politico article with a small grain of salt, in particular the characterization that "Chasin flew her to (Epsteins)".
Now we get to switch places from our earlier conversation vanessa, cause this time I ain't necessarily buying it 