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It wasn't the FBI, it was the USA for Floria, Alex Acosta. It's been thoroughly reported on and investigated by the DOJ. The prosecutor's discretion is so broad
by tootie 4y ago
It wasn't the FBI, it was the USA for Floria, Alex Acosta. It's been thoroughly reported on and investigated by the DOJ. The prosecutor's discretion is so broad in whom they choose to charge or not that there isn't much that can be done. No quid pro quo was ever uncovered. It was considered a very generous deal for what was a very serious case, but if the prosecutor says he doesn't have confidence in getting a conviction, then they can kinda do whatever they want.
- voxic11 4y agoJust because they can do whatever they want doesn't mean the public needs to be kept in the dark about what influenced their decisions. The public deserves to know more about why Acosta thought Epstein was an intelligence asset that deserved such a deal. > “Is the Epstein case going to cause a problem [for confirmation hearings]?” Acosta had been asked. Acosta had explained, breezily, apparently, that back in the day he’d had just one meeting on the Epstein case. He’d cut the non-prosecution deal with one of Epstein’s attorneys because he had “been told” to back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade. “I was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone,” he told his interviewers in the Trump transition, who evidently thought that was a sufficient answer and went ahead and hired Acosta.
- mikeyouse 4y agoAll of that is a lie - he and Ken Starr worked with Epstein (one of many sex crimes Starr would try to bury) and his lawyers for months to figure that deal out. They were coordinating with someone at the DOJ or in the Bush White House. https://www.justice.gov/opr/page/file/1336471/download https://www.justice.gov/opr/page/file/1336471/download
- matthewdgreen 4y agoAlex Acosta, who became the US Secretary of Labor from 2017-2019 and more or less evaporated when Epstein went to prison. I’d love to know how that appointment came to be.