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Breitbart: Iowa Dem Accepts $250K from Epstein-Linked Billionaire Who Stayed at Townhouse, Flew to Island

Breitbart | Jasmyn Jordan | February 3, 2026

A $250,000 campaign contribution to Iowa State Auditor and gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand (D-IA) was made by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, whose visits to Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, New York townhouse, and New Mexico ranch are documented in emails released by the Department of Justice.

The Iowa GOP flagged the donation in a February press release, pointing to Hoffman’s well-documented history with Epstein. Hoffman, a longtime Democrat financier and founder of LinkedIn, is featured in Justice Department documents detailing plans to visit Epstein’s private island, his New Mexico ranch, and his Manhattan townhouse. One email from Epstein’s assistant about a 2014 itinerary includes the note, “Reid will take a Virgin America flight… to Fort Lauderdale,” part of travel arrangements described elsewhere in the documents as a trip to Epstein’s private island, Little St. James.

Further emails released by the DOJ show Epstein telling his assistant, “I have [Reid’s] passport. Found in the gift bag they had given me.” In another, Epstein casually references Hoffman in correspondence with Elon Musk, inquiring about holiday plans at St. Barts. Neither Hoffman nor any other figures mentioned in the documents have been charged with any crime related to Epstein.

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Iowa Republicans are calling on Sand to address the Hoffman contribution directly. “Will he return the money, or is this who he really answers to? Iowans deserve to know,” said Iowa GOP spokesperson Jade Cichy.

This donation follows a $50,000 contribution Sand previously accepted from Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, a billionaire Democrat described by the Iowa GOP as “one of the most liberal governors in the country,” whose administration has enacted policies including taxpayer-funded gender transitions for minors, sanctuary protections for illegal immigrants, a no-cash-bail law, and some of the strictest gun control measures in the nation.

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Reid Hoffman’s massive donations to Democrats, including $2 million to Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and more than $15 million to the Wisconsin Democrat Party  since 2019, have drawn media attention across the country.

Hoffman also notoriously donated $7 million to failed Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris with the expectation that she would fire FTC Chair Lina Khan. That raises an obvious question: did Hoffman’s donation to Rob Sand come with strings too?

Let’s be clear: the leading Democrat candidate for governor of Iowa taking a quarter-million dollars from a California billionaire mentioned 2,600 times in the Epstein Files is absolutely newsworthy. Yet Rob remains silent. 

Iowans deserve to know: 

  • Does Rob Sand have any explanation for why he took hundreds of thousands of dollars from a well-known Epstein associate?

  • What conversations happened before the donation? How did it come about? Were there any strings attached to this donation?

  • Did Rob Sand speak to Hoffman directly, meet him at an event, etc.?

  • Will Sand be returning the money?

“Democrat Rob Sand loves to brand himself as an ‘outsider’ who does things differently, and lectures Iowans about ‘right vs. wrong.’ But then he quietly cashes a $250,000 check from a morally bankrupt California billionaire whose name appears 2,600 times in the Epstein files. Rob Sand is a phony, and thinks we’re all fools. Iowans deserve answers.” - Iowa GOP Spokesperson Jade Cichy

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