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Federal prosecutors in Floridaincluding President Trumps current Labor Secretary Alexander Acostabroke the law when they signed a secret plea agreement with billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a Palm Beach judge ruled Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra ruled that the decision to keep more than 30 of Epsteins accusers in the dark about the non-prosecution deal that allowed Epstein, a prominent financier with political connections, to avoid federal prosecution was unconstitutional.
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Those lawyers, including Sexgate prosecutor Ken Starr and celebrity attorney Alan Dershowitz, created the secret 2008 plea deal with Acosta, who was then Miamis top federal prosecutor, and other attorneys unbeknownst to the billionaires alleged victims, the Herald investigation found.
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Thursdays decision concluded an 11-year investigation into Epsteins plea agreement, which revealed hundreds of emails showing how Acosta and other prosecutors worked with Epsteins legal team to conceal the deal from victims and the public.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/alexander-acosta-trumps-labor-secretary-broke-the-law-in-jeffrey-epstein-case-judge
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Fuzzpope
(602 posts)LET JUSTICE BE SERVED.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)We need a powerful, justice wave.
marble falls
(57,537 posts)this guy trafficed in minor women. He and anybody associated in his foul trade need to meet justice.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,034 posts)this foul deed as well?
oldsoftie
(12,674 posts)RandiFan1290
(6,261 posts)While his TRUMP allies try to protect him and his perverted pedo pals.
Quixote1818
(29,025 posts)I'm guessing
watoos
(7,142 posts)oldsoftie
(12,674 posts)SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,672 posts)When is this ever going to change? Certainly not in my lifetime.
trueblue2007
(17,250 posts)Igel
(35,390 posts)The original article in the Miami Herald was crystal clear.
The original decision was a decision. "Prosecutorial discretion." Presumably Acosta agreed to what his people negotiated. The law wasn't broken when the secret agreement was reached--unless we define "secret" in just the right way.
The law was broken when they did not tell the victims about the agreement not to prosecute. Moreover, they didn't just fail to tell them, they took active steps to hide the agreement. The remedy is telling: Go and reach a settlement on this point with the victims. Not "revoke the decision."
The judge also pointed out that the decision not to prosecute was binding on the jurisdiction that agreed to the deal. That entails "it is not binding on the other jurisdictions." Something that's fairly obvious, but needs to be said.
The Miami Herald was clear.
Political Wire, The Hill, and others were less clear and seemed to spread the illegality from just "keeping a secret" to "making a deal and keeping it secret." This OP divorces the two to a greater extent and says, "making a secret deal" was illegal; "keeping it from the victims" was illegal.
UpInArms
(51,295 posts)as he ruled it unconstitutional...