A Missouri pastor who briefly managed Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Caribbean island was suspended from her job after her affiliation was publicly uncovered — with the reverend defending her resolution to work for him regardless of understanding his prison previous as a Christly act.
Rev. Stephanie L. Remington, 50, was suspended from Missouri’s United Methodist Church final week when management realized her identify had appeared greater than 1,800 instances within the trove of Epstein recordsdata not too long ago launched by the Division of Justice, UM Information reported.
Remington has not been accused of any crimes, and the Epstein recordsdata mentions seemed to be principally from communications about overseeing the pedophilic financier’s Little St. James Island within the US Virgin Islands.
She labored for Epstein on his island from Aug. 2018 to Could 2019 — leaving her function simply weeks earlier than his fateful July 2019 arrest and suicide a month later — and insisted she “by no means” noticed any nefarious conduct throughout her time.
“I by no means noticed something,” Remington informed UM Information. “I knew him for the final 9 months of his life, effectively after he served time for the issues that he was accused of doing.”
However Remington was conscious of Epstein’s prison historical past from ten years earlier — a 2008 responsible plea for to procuring a toddler for prostitution, which landed him simply over a yr in jail — and seemed to her Christian teachings whereas apparently wrestling with whether or not to take the job.
“I felt that if I withheld relationship from this man due to his previous, then I might be turning my again on each message of hope I’ve ever preached, each invitation to God’s unconditional love I’ve ever prolonged, and my calling to be a therapeutic presence on the earth for all folks,” she wrote in a 2019 private weblog put up.
And she or he doubled down on that place after her suspension.
“Jesus acquired into quite a lot of hassle for the corporate he saved, however he didn’t let that hassle stress him into rejecting the individuals who, by their requirements, didn’t should be human,” she informed UM Information.
“Social dying is simply one other form of homicide. He opened his coronary heart and his thoughts to them, and so they opened their tables and alabaster jars to him,” she added. “Is Jeffrey not amongst their type?”
Remington additionally mentioned Epstein was very type to her when her father fell ailing, a scenario which led to her leaving the job.
That was one of many issues matters mentioned in e mail again and forths with Epstein and his workers revealed within the recordsdata, whereas others concerned logistics about work being performed on the Little St. James home.
Little St. James was the nexus of a lot of Epstein’s illicit conduct. Claims of kid rape have surrounded the island, whereas the pedophile routinely flew wealthy and highly effective buddies to the tropical getaway.
And although Remington insisted she by no means skilled something untoward on the island throughout her few months working there, Remington mentioned Epstein would regularly brag about his connections to each Invoice Clinton and President Trump.
“Half of America needs to tie him to the Clintons. The opposite half needs to tie him to Trump,” Remington informed UM Information. “Their hunch is appropriate. Jeffrey was very proud to have direct strains to all his presidents.”
Remington may face penalties throughout the United Methodist Church, with the probe investigating whether or not she adopted guidelines requiring clergy members to tell management concerning the scope of their employment.
She couldn’t be reached for remark.
