Rep. Crockett Accuses Zeldin of Taking Epstein Cash—Turns Out It Was the Wrong Jeffrey Epstein

A Long Island neurosurgeon shares the same name as America’s most infamous pedophile—and now a grandstanding Texas Democrat has smeared him on the House floor for political points.

The doctor’s response? A revenge plot so simple it might just work.

Dr. Jeffrey Epstein, a Manhasset, N.Y., brain surgeon, told the New York Post he is considering donating to Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s campaign—then publicizing the contribution so the public believes the Georgia Democrat took cash from "Jeffrey Epstein."

"I think that I should contribute money to Jasmine Crockett and then let everybody know that she also took money from Jeffrey Epstein," Epstein told the Post on Thursday.

The doctor’s name surfaced Tuesday when Crockett, defending Virgin Islands Delegate Stacey Plaskett during a failed Republican censure vote, boasted she would "expose it all."

She claimed former Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., now President Trump’s EPA administrator, accepted donations from "somebody named Jeffrey Epstein."

WATCH:

Federal Election Commission records show two men named Jeffrey Epstein donated to Zeldin after the sex-trafficker financier died by suicide in a Manhattan jail in August 2019.

Dr. Jeffrey Epstein gave $1,000 in April and August 2020.

A New Jersey beverage distributor named Jeffrey Epstein donated $600 in February 2020.

"Until she said something, it was never an issue," the surgeon said of past mix-ups.

He admitted people sometimes give him odd looks when he introduces himself.

"I always look at them and say, 'I don’t understand,' and I make it like I’m dumb," he explained.“

"Listen, that’s my name,” he continued. “If my name was Jeffrey Dahmer when that whole thing came out—do you think that would be a problem? Listen, anytime a doppelganger is tied to a less-than-desirable, it’s never a good situation. But it doesn’t matter to me. I could[n’t] care less."

The real aggravation, he said, comes from reporters: "The only thing that bothers the doc about having the name Jeffrey Epstein is people like you calling me to ask me these questions. Don’t take that the wrong way, but you couldn’t understand that—otherwise it doesn’t bother me in the least."

Zeldin fired back on X: "Yes, Crockett, a physician named Dr. Jeffrey Epstein (who is a totally different person than the other Jeffrey Epstein) donated to a prior campaign of mine. NO FREAKIN RELATION, YOU GENIUS!!!"

Bottom line: a Democratic congresswoman swung wildly to deflect from her party’s own Epstein connections, hit the wrong Jeffrey Epstein, and now faces the prospect of campaign filings that could make her the latest politician linked—however absurdly—to the dead predator’s name.

The House vote to censure Delegate Plaskett failed, but the embarrassment for Rep. Crockett appears just beginning.