influence local politicians, and says

influence local politicians, and says deJongh even asked Epstein to suggest changes to the territory's sex offender law "Epstein's primary conduit for spreading money and influence throughout the USVI government was First Lady delongh," who worked as Epsteins local fixer for two decades, including throughout her husband John delongh Jns tenure as V.I. gover- nor from 2007 to 2015, according to the filing. Delongh told Epstein which govern- ment officials to pay off, and devised ways to justify his victims' presence in the territory by enrolling them at the University of the Virgin Islands so they could obtain student visas, according to the filing. In a statement to The Daily News on Thursday, UV[ President David Hall denied all allegations in the bank's filing. Attorneys for the bank say docu- ments obtained during the discovery process, which is still ongoing, show that deJongh asked Epstein -- a registered sex offender - to suggest changes to the territory'