September 26, 2025 09:01 AM UTC

Virginia Giuffre's Brother Is Rep. Jeff Crank's Constituent

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• by: Colorado Pols

As KOAA News5’s Alasyn Zimmerman reported yesterday, while the Trump administration and Republicans in Washington, D.C. were doing their best to distract you with everything but the proverbial kitchen sink:

Standing outside Congressman Jeff Crank’s Colorado Springs Office Wednesday afternoon, Sky Roberts and his wife Amanda urged the congressman to support a bill that would release all unclassified documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein is the financier who was a convicted sex offender and was accused of sex trafficking young girls.

Girls like Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Sky Roberts’ sister. Roberts and his wife Amanda live in Colorado Springs.

“Virginia, she was a firecracker,” Amanda Roberts, Giuffre’s sister-in-law said, “she had an unspeakable amount of joy even after everything that she had gone through in her life.”

Although Republican members of Congress across the country are under pressure from constituents to sign the discharge petition to force a vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files, Colorado Springs’ Rep. Jeff Crank has the additional distinction of representing immediate family of one of the most famous (and ultimately tragic) of Epstein’s victims, Virginia Giuffre. It’s also worth keeping in mind that Jeff Crank historically was not a supporter of Donald Trump, and would have at least at one point in his career welcomed the release of the Epstein files along with anything else that might damage Trump.

But in September of 2025, Crank is just another MAGA-hat loyalist:

News5 reached out to Congressman Crank who sent a quote saying “I have supported transparency and accountability regarding the business dealings, investigation, and prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein. The American people deserve transparency into Epstein’s dealings, and I support the release of all documents that shed light on what occurred, while protecting the identity of the victims.”

A follow-up question over email on whether that means he will support the bill went unanswered Wednesday night.

This is of course the same dodge offered by Speaker Mike Johnson, and a clear indicator that Crank will not be joining Rep. Lauren Boebert and the other small group of Republicans who have resisted White House pressure and signed Rep. Tom Massie’s petition. With the election this week of a 218th vote to force the question, Crank’s intransigence becomes irrelevant. Nobody realistically expects this bill to go farther than passage in the House, but that alone will send a loud message to Trump that his old friend Jeffrey Epstein cannot be swept under the rug as a “Democrat hoax.” Every day this effort persists despite Trump’s exhaustive attempts to change the subject is a defeat.

Perhaps one day Jeff Crank will reclaim the independence he aspired to before becoming just another Trump toady. But despite the pleading from the families of Epstein’s victims Crank represents in Congress, it didn’t happen this week.