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Ohio Senate Candidates Spar over Donations Tied, Loosely or Not, to Epstein

Fact-checkers say both ads omit context, while one claim cites $116,892 from Les Wexner and the other says Brown took more than $124,000.

Summary by Roll Call
by Lori Robertson ANALYSIS —Ohio voters are witnessing a battle of campaign television ads as each Senate candidate tries to tie the other to Jeffrey Epstein — by way of donations from those with some link to the late convicted sex offender. Democrat Sherrod Brown’s campaign charges that Republican Sen. Jon Husted “took more money from Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirators than anyone else in Washington, and then voted to keep the Epstein files secr…
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PolitiFact broke the news in Saint Petersburg, United States on Monday, June 8, 2026.
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