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…Senator Brown took a hundred grand from Epstein associates.

Jon Husted · A campaign television advertisement, "Change" · May 27, 2026 · U.S. Senator from Ohio

About Sherrod Brown.

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

FactCheck.org · no rating scale · June 5, 2026 · read the check

Rival TV ads in Ohio's US Senate race play up donors' Epstein links. Are they legit?

PolitiFact · no rating scale · June 8, 2026 · read the check

Our check against the record

The record does not settle it

Checked against No record can settle this sentence: the Federal Election Commission records contributions by contributor name, and "Epstein associates" is not a category the Commission records, so which contributors count is the speaker's choice.

The record: Campaign finance data: candidates, committees, receipts and independent expenditures

Context

The advertisement concerned campaign contributions Brown received from donors the Husted campaign linked to Jeffrey Epstein.

Topics: Campaign finance.

Other claims by Jon Husted

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Sources

  1. Change · Jon Husted for Senate (YouTube) · 2026-05-27 · accessed 2026-10-03
  2. Ohio Senate Candidates Spar Over Donations Tied, Loosely or Not, to Epstein · FactCheck.org · 2026-06-05 · accessed 2026-10-03
  3. Rival TV ads in Ohio's US Senate race play up donors' Epstein links. Are they legit? · PolitiFact · 2026-06-08 · accessed 2026-10-03
  4. Campaign finance data: candidates, committees, receipts and independent expenditures · Federal Election Commission · accessed 2026-10-15

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