Report: Flight logs back up governor’s claims
Wednesday, Mar 4, 2026 - Posted by Rich Miller
* Background is here and here if you need it. Mark Maxwell dug into the flight records for two flights that JB Pritzker was on with Bill Clinton. No Epstein connection to either. Here’s one example…
In August 2008, Clinton led a large Clinton Foundation delegation to sub-Saharan Africa to highlight the foundation’s work on HIV/AIDS, malaria and economic development. Contemporary reporting by the Chronicle of Philanthropy documented the trip in real time.
The aircraft used for that trip was a Boeing 767, tail number N2767. Pritzker’s campaign says Google provided the aircraft as an in-kind contribution for the Clinton Foundation’s work.
Epstein pleaded guilty on June 30, 2008, and began serving an 18-month sentence in the Palm Beach County jail shortly thereafter. By the time the Clinton Foundation delegation departed for the sub-Saharan nations on July 28, Epstein had already entered custody.
There is no evidence in flight manifests or FAA records tying that Boeing 767 to Epstein. Publicly available logs associated with Epstein’s aircraft do not show his plane in the same airports on the same dates as the Africa trip.
Read the rest if you need to.
Also, nobody has found Gov. Pritzker’s name on any Epstein-related flight logs, and those logs have been pored over for years.
* On to the partisan react. ILGOP…
Two of my cousins are in prison. That doesn’t make me a criminal. And when the governor says he isn’t close to his cousin, this is why, as explained by the Tribune…
The publicly released Epstein files show Thomas Pritzker was in regular contact with Epstein even after the financier pleaded guilty in Florida in 2008 to charges including soliciting prostitution from a minor.
JB Pritzker has said he isn’t close with his cousin, who was among the next generation of Pritzkers whom patriarch Jay Pritzker tapped to lead Hyatt and other family interests after his death.
The succession plan, which also named the governor’s sister, Penny Pritzker, and Jay Pritzker’s younger cousin Nick to help lead, precipitated an acrimonious breakup of the Pritzker family fortune in the early 2000s.
* Darren Bailey…
* James Mendrick…
* DuPage GOP…
* Back to Bailey and the Clintons…
If he’s trying to hide a paper trail, he didn’t do a very good job because it was FOIA’d.
What it does show, though, is how close Pritzker was to AIPAC back in the day. He’s recently denounced the group…
The Governor’s feeling on AIPAC’s abandonment of their principles remains the same. Just because they donate to certain Democrats doesn’t change the fact that they are heeding the words and direction of Jared Kushner and other Trump acolytes.
- Just Me 2 - Wednesday, Mar 4, 26 @ 9:12 am:
Is Bailey suggesting that communicating with political groups needs to be done on taxpayer e-mail systems? Hmmm….let’s ask Lee Daniels how well that worked for him.
- Name Withheld - Wednesday, Mar 4, 26 @ 9:13 am:
“A FOIA document catches JB Pritzker asking Clinton’s team to keep their correspondence off government server.”
You mean …
“JB Pritzker follows ethics laws regard non-government communications conducted via government email 8 years before running for office.”
Fixed it for you, Darren.
- short memory - Wednesday, Mar 4, 26 @ 9:19 am:
Asking to be sure a political message is sent to a non-government email shows he was of following ethics laws and trying to avoid using government emails for a political purpose.
That’s being ethical, not shady, Mr. Bailey. Do better.
- SOIL M - Wednesday, Mar 4, 26 @ 9:21 am:
No credible source has linked JB to Epstein
- Steve - Wednesday, Mar 4, 26 @ 9:21 am:
I can’t believe the Epstein situation is even an issue in Illinois. But, here we are.
- Pot calling kettle - Wednesday, Mar 4, 26 @ 9:44 am:
==I can’t believe the Epstein situation is even an issue in Illinois. But, here we are. ==
It’s being made an issue by the GOP based on an already corrected mis-statement.
BTW, if the statement had been true, it would have been one flight to Africa with a group supporting health care on the continent. If that one flight constitutes an “issue” what does DJT’s decades of friendship and interaction count as?
- Sir Reel - Wednesday, Mar 4, 26 @ 9:51 am:
Republicans search for any infinestimal connection between JB and Epstein while ignoring the obvious Trump-Epstein connection. What a surprise.