BREAKING: Ken Paxton CAUGHT Accepting Funds From Epstein Files Donors
Ken Paxton wants to be a United States Senator. He’s currently accused of protecting a child molester with a sweetheart plea deal. And now we know his campaign has been quietly cashing checks from a family whose name sits inside the Epstein files, tied to both Epstein’s plane and an FBI tip about an alleged underage girl. When reporters asked if he’d give the money back, his campaign said nothing.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Trump-endorsed Republican running for Senate, took thousands of dollars in campaign donations this spring from a member of the Jaffe family, a Texas family whose name appears twice in the Epstein files. Not once. Twice.
Family Ties and the FBI
The Jaffe family runs Jetran, a Texas aviation company that’s spent nearly four decades acquiring and converting aircraft. Justice Department documents released as part of the Epstein files show Jetran was in talks in 2016 to buy one of Epstein’s planes, the one people called the “Lolita Express,” the plane Epstein allegedly used to fly teenage girls and trafficking victims to his properties. Emails between Epstein’s team and the Jaffes appear to place Doug Jaffe Jr. directly in those negotiations.
Then there’s Doug Jaffe III, who shows up in a different part of the files entirely: a 2020 anonymous tip to the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center alleging possible sex and drug trafficking. According to the FBI’s own call log, the tipster said that in the early 2000s, Jaffe invited them to a villa in Mexico owned by his aunt, and that while there, they saw a young girl the caller estimated to be 11 or 12 years old. Jaffe allegedly told the caller the girl was his niece, something the caller says they later learned wasn’t true. The caller also described being taken to a nightclub in Acapulco where they say underage girls were brought on stage, and said they remembered several Epstein associates listed in the villa’s guestbook.
Jaffe III and his father deny all of it. Jaffe III told MS NOW by email that he had “absolutely nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein or the Epstein files” and said he never met him. His father called the entire story “someone trying to stir up shit.” Denials are easy. The FBI call log exists whether the Jaffes like it or not, and so does the paper trail connecting their company to Epstein’s plane.
The Unfortunate Timing
This is the part Paxton’s campaign really doesn’t want you focusing on. This isn’t a donation from years ago, back when nobody had any way of knowing what the Epstein files would eventually reveal. This money moved after the files were public, after Texans had already read the allegations, after the Jaffe name was already tied to Epstein’s plane and to an FBI trafficking tip.
In April 2026, an FEC filing from what was then the Ken Paxton Victory Fund, later rebranded the Paxton Cruz Victory Fund, reported a $3,500 donation from a Doug Jaffe in West Lake Hills, Texas, at an address tied to Jaffe III.
A month later, in May 2026, a separate FEC filing from the Paxton campaign itself logged another $3,000 from an address associated with both Jaffe men.
That’s $6,500, straight into Ken Paxton’s Senate campaign, from a family whose name was already sitting in the Epstein files by the time the checks cleared.
MS NOW asked Paxton’s campaign a simple question: will you give the money back? Silence. No comment, no denial, no explanation. Just nothing.
Paxton Is Already Under Fire for Protecting a Child Molester
This isn’t happening in a vacuum. Right now, Paxton is facing a separate and completely unrelated firestorm over his office’s handling of a plea deal for Adam Hoffman, a lawyer who admitted to child molestation and walked away with just 30 days in jail and no requirement to register as a sex offender. Paxton’s office is refusing to release the records behind that deal. State Rep. James Talarico has called it exactly what it looks like: an “Epstein-style sweetheart deal.” The victim’s own family has publicly criticized how Paxton’s office handled the case.
So here’s where Paxton actually stands right now: his office is stonewalling the public on why an admitted child molester barely served a month behind bars, while his Senate campaign is simultaneously pocketing money from a family connected to Epstein’s plane and an FBI tip about a possible underage trafficking victim. That’s not bad optics. That’s a pattern.
Paxton’s Pitch Doesn’t Hold Up
Paxton wants voters to believe his campaign is about affordability, that “every Texan should be able to buy a home, raise a family, and live a healthy life without the bills burying them.” That’s rich coming from a man who has spent the better part of a decade in office fighting the exact consumer protections and regulatory guardrails that would actually make that possible. It’s the same script every time: run on affordability, govern against it, and hope voters don’t realize before it is too late.
Ken Paxton is dodging questions about a sweetheart deal for a child molester and banking donations from a family tied to Jeffrey Epstein’s plane. His campaign has had every opportunity to explain itself, to give the money back, to say anything. Instead, they’ve said nothing. Texas voters deserve better than silence from a man asking them for their vote.