rumitoid

It is plain and simple: Acosta should immediately resign or be removed by the WH. Yet another tragically wrong appointee of the president.

Jeffrey Epstein was looking at possible life in prison after being named in a federal 53 page indictment for assembling a large, cult-like network of underage girls — with the help of young female recruiters — to coerce into having sex acts behind the walls of his opulent waterfront mansion as often as three times a day, the Town of Palm Beach police found. But in a sweetheart deal engineered by Acosta, he only had to serve 13 months in county jail.

In effect, Acosta must bear some of the guilt for his egrigious act of allowing this man to continue his heinous crimes. Had he done his rightful prosecutionary duty then, in all probability Epstein would still have been behind bars and those would have been safe. So much for Trump's claim of hiring the best people; his record on that is gross and repeated scandalous incompetents. Here's what happened.

On a muggy October morning in 2007, Miami’s top federal prosecutor, Alexander Acosta, had a breakfast appointment with a former colleague, Washington, D.C., attorney Jay Lefkowitz.

It was an unusual meeting for the then-38-year-old prosecutor, a rising Republican star who had served in several White House posts before being named U.S. attorney in Miami by President George W. Bush.
Instead of meeting at the prosecutor’s Miami headquarters, the two men — both with professional roots in the prestigious Washington law firm of Kirkland & Ellis — convened at the Marr**tt in West Palm Beach, about 70 miles away. For Lefkowitz, 44, a U.S. special envoy to North Korea and corporate lawyer, the meeting was critical.

His client, Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein, 54, was accused of assembling a large, cult-like network of underage girls — with the help of young female recruiters — to coerce into having sex acts behind the walls of his opulent waterfront mansion as often as three times a day, the Town of Palm Beach police found.

Facing a 53-page federal indictment, Epstein could have ended up in federal prison for the rest of his life.
But on the morning of the breakfast meeting, a deal was struck — an extraordinary plea agreement that would conceal the full extent of Epstein’s crimes and the number of people involved.

Not only would Epstein serve just 13 months in the county jail, but the deal — called a non-prosecution agreement — essentially shut down an ongoing FBI probe into whether there were more victims and other powerful people who took part in Epstein’s sex crimes, according to a Miami Herald examination of thousands of emails, court documents and FBI records.

The pact required Epstein to plead guilty to two prostitution charges in state court. Epstein and four of his accomplices named in the agreement received immunity from all federal criminal charges. But even more unusual, the deal included wording that granted immunity to “any potential co-conspirators’’ who were also involved in Epstein’s crimes. These accomplices or participants were not identified in the agreement, leaving it open to interpretation whether it possibly referred to other influential people who were having sex with underage girls at Epstein’s various homes or on his plane.

As part of the arrangement, Acosta agreed, DESPITE A FEDERAL LAW TO THE CONTRARY, that the deal would be kept from the victims. As a result, the non-prosecution agreement was sealed until after it was approved by the judge, thereby averting any chance that the girls — or anyone else — might show up in court and try to derail it.

Now President Trump’s secretary of labor, Acosta, 49, oversees a massive federal agency that provides oversight of the country’s labor laws, including human trafficking. Until he was reported to be eliminated on Thursday, a day after this story posted online, Acosta also had been included on lists of possible replacements for former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who resigned under pressure earlier this month.

Acosta did not respond to numerous requests for an interview or answer queries through email.

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220097825.html#storylink=cpy

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-07/trump-was-only-one-help-prosecutor-2009-epstein-case

and...

https://thefederalistpapers.org/opinion/trump-banned-epstein-mar-lago-years-ago

rumitoid

Unreal. Will you guys ever own up to what Trump is doing and how he effects, infects, those around him?

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

Will you stop being such h**eful person when it comes to this President???...He disaowned Epstein looong time ago...It's been reported..Get with it...

rumitoid

The point is not about Epstein directly, though important, but about his terrible choice for Secretary of Labor Acosta and his criminal act.

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

There are things im sure that people in Congress and in Senate may not be proud what they did in the past...The same goes for President Trump Admin..Im sure Mr Acosta is not proud of what he did in the past,especially when it concerns Epstein!!!!!

rumitoid

Lol, okay.