Federal prosecutors broke law in Jeffrey Epstein case, judge rules (Ongoing Democrat scandal alert)

Miami Herald ^ | February 21, 2019 | Julie K. Brown

[Zakeet]

A judge ruled Thursday that federal prosecutors - among them, U.S. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta - broke federal law when they signed a plea agreement with a wealthy, politically connected sex trafficker and concealed it from more than 30 of his underage victims.

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"Epstein used paid employees to find and bring minor girls to him." wrote [U.S. District Judge Kenneth] Marra, who is based in Palm Beach County. "Epstein worked in concert with others to obtain minors not only for his own sexual gratification, but also for the sexual gratification of others."

Instead of prosecuting Epstein under federal sex trafficking laws, Acosta, then the U.S. attorney in Miami, helped negotiate a non-prosecution agreement that gave Epstein and his co-conspirators immunity from federal prosecution. Epstein, who lived in a Palm Beach mansion, was allowed to quietly plead guilty in state court to two prostitution charges and served just 13 months in the county jail. His accomplices, some of whom have never been identified, were never charged.

Acosta agreed to seal the deal, which meant that none of Epstein's victims, who were mostly 13 to 16 years old at the time of the abuse, were told about it until it was too late for them to appear at his sentencing and possibly reject the deal. Upon learning that Epstein had pleaded guilty without their knowledge, two of his victims filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of Florida in 2008, claiming that prosecutors violated the Crime Victims’ Rights Act, which grants victims of federal crimes a series of rights, including the ability to confer with prosecutors about a possible plea deal.

[Zakeet]

From This:

In 2005, the world was introduced to reclusive billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, friend to princes and an American president, a power broker with the darkest of secrets: He was also a pedophile, accused of recruiting dozens of underage girls into a sex-slave network, buying their silence and moving along, although he has been convicted of only one count of soliciting prostitution from a minor. Visitors to his private Caribbean island, known as “Orgy Island,” have included Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and Stephen Hawking.

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Epstein has spent the bulk of his adult life cultivating relationships with the world’s most powerful men. Flight logs show that from 2001 to 2003, Bill Clinton flew on Epstein’s private plane, dubbed “The Lolita Express” by the press, 26 times. After Epstein’s arrest in July 2006, federal tax records show Epstein donated $25,000 to the Clinton Foundation that year.

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The FBI under the direction of Robert Mueller help fix the problem.

[Hojczyk]

Filthy Rich: The Billionaire’s Sex Scandal - The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein Mass Market Paperback – November 28, 2017

Riveting and very disturbing. I knew about Epstein, but the full magnitude of just how evil a man he is was astonishing. James Patterson nailed it and I would like to thank him for at least giving society an eye opener to the plight of children. Very well done. Children have no voice and no choice. To think that these children were recruited for Epstein by other children is chilling. Every person must become a voice for the children who have no voice and no choice.

Dr. Claire Reeves
MOTHERS AGAINST SEXUAL ABUSE
President/Founder

[TexasGator]

Friend of Bill

[Rumplemeyer]

President Trump needs to fire this vile scumbag very publicly and recommend the DOJ investigate his involvement in child trafficking.

[Hojczyk]

The local prosecutor wanted to throw the book at him but the DOJ got involved

[colorado tanker]

I do zero criminal law work. Does this mean the scumbag can now be prosecuted?

[bitt]

PING!

[kimoajax]

This is one septic tank lid top Dems will fight tooth and nail to NOT open.

[Jaded]

But who’s foot is currently holding the lid down? There seem to be many to choose from.

[hal ogen]

Yet more scum federal “workers”. I doubt if they are the last.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“His accomplices, some of whom have never been identified...”

Do they need a list? Pretty sure Freepers can pull one together in about 30 seconds, flat!

[DrDude]

This is the same jurisdiction where the fully suited prosecutor went for a swim and was found dead on the beach.Looks like the same situation we have now. Maybe they will stretch it out for 11 more years. No one is stopping the DS

[Retvet]

How can anyone trust the FBI anymore? All, all agents need to be fired!

[jjotto]

Is it mentioned that Epstein’s lawyer who negotiated the deal was Alan Dershowitz?

[BiggBob]

If the deep state was as all powerful as you claim this wouldn’t even be in the news..

The pendulum is swinging too bad you are so impatient. Your constant whining about it is tiresome.

[Honest Nigerian]

Is that the same James Patterson who co-wrote that recent work of fiction with Bill Clinton?
WOW!

[USS Alaska]

How can anyone trust the FBI anymore? All, all agents need to be fired!

Wait, wait! What about sean hannity's 'hard working rank and file fbi agents'?

Like the one I know who was doing a dui rehab class for blowing 2.5 times the legal limit and was pissed the local leos wouldn't give him a pass.

What in the hell is the new fbi director doing?

If there are 35,000 hard working fbi employees, what have they been doing for the past 2 and a half years?

[dirtymac]

The pendulum is swinging too bad you are so impatient. Your constant whining about it is tiresome
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That is pretty harsh criticism for a newbie around here. Are you a plant, intending to disrupt discussions??? Recently relocated from DU??

[BiggBob]

Whatever you say stalker,

I’ve seen the Dr comment on many threads always the same, “nothing is ever gonna happen” blah blah blah. the glass is half full pessimism is tiresome,

Now your judgemental stalking is a different issue...

[eyeamok]

The Prosecutors were Co-Conspirators to the Crimes Epstein committed, PROSECUTE THEM AND PUT IN PRISON FOR LIFE!!!