An update on the Epstein / Acosta affair, in which billionaire Epstein was accused of multitudinous rapes against underage girls, and got off with 18 months in jail, cut short to 13 months – and most of the time he was still able to attend to business affairs on work-release. Current Secretary of Labor Acosta was the US Attorney who cut him the deal. Here’s NBC News with a report of an investigation:
The Justice Department has launched an investigation into how federal government lawyers handled the case of a wealthy Florida man accused of having sex with underage girls, a DOJ official confirmed Thursday.
One of those lawyers, Alex Acosta, is now President Donald Trump’s labor secretary. But he was the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida when key decisions about the case of Jeffrey Epstein were made. Prosecutors looked into allegations that Epstein abused dozens of teenage girls in his West Palm Beach mansion in the early 2000s. He eventually pleaded guilty to state charges involving a single victim in 2008.
But according to a civil lawsuit filed by other women who said they were among Epstein’s victims, one of the conditions of that deal was that a much larger federal investigation into Epstein and the people who helped him in his scheme would be dropped. Epstein, 66, served 13 months in jail and was allowed to leave almost every day through a work release program.
Which is both sad and alarming. We often speak of how the wealthy avoid justice through their gold, and in this case it may turn out to be true.
But I have a question: Aren’t these deals subject to approval by the presiding judge? Why isn’t the judge under investigation as well? Or are they assuming Acosta mislead the judge?
