Posted on 07/14/2019 6:27:19 AM PDT by libstripper
Double-jeopardy rules almost certainly prohibit settling a federal case and then prosecuting it again in federal court.
Alex Acosta did a bad job on the Jeffrey Epstein case. This column was nearly finished when news broke Friday that he would resign as labor secretary. I was going to argue that his lapses did not justify joining the nakedly political mau-mauing by Democrats who have no interest in exploring the behavior of Democrats who are neck-deep in a monstrous pedophile’s activities. My friend Jennifer Braceras has ably addressed that point in a Washington Examiner column. I was also going to add that I’d shed no tears if President Trump forced Acosta out — easy for me to say, since I think (a) he should never have been nominated in the first place, and (b) his commitment to Trump’s deregulation agenda has never been sufficiently ardent.
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No. For that is not the FR way.
Once again McCarthy demonstrates why he calls National Review home.
Double jeopardy is not going to cover new crimes that have been discovered in the investigation. It will,of course, be a great excuse for the deep state to bury all new evidence.
The main reason the MSM followed this case was the link of Acosta to Trump. Just another club to bash Trump for a few news cycles. Epstein was not prosecuted because his association and activities with powerful men such as the vile Clinton and unnamed others was his ultimate protection. Soon this story will fade, Epstein will probably get off again lest he releases some information on the protected class, there will be no justice for the rapes of young girls and the fake news, propaganda MSM will look for new clubs to bash Trump.
Is any rational person surprised that prosecutors like Acosta are used as tools? See any prosecutions of Antifa or the Obama plotters who rigged an election? Equal justice under the law is turning out to be a myth.
McCarthy, somewhat disingenuously if not ignorantly, leaves out that Acosta has claimed he was instructed to do the deal. Why is no one in the media looking into the higher-ups who forced the plea deal?
Yes, this is a mess. It appears that the prosecution deliberately let Epstein off the hook in perpetuity. I suspect this was an effort to protect people who would have been implicated had they not created this agreement.
When the new prosecution asked for people to come forward they were looking for a new crime to prosecute, that occurred after 2007. What we need to investigate and prosecute is why Epstein was given a get-out-of-jail card in the first case. That is an entirely separate crime that occurred after Epstein’s crimes. Acosta claims that he was told to back off by “intelligence.” Mueller was the head of the FBI and he handled other cases in a similar way; see Whitey Bolger. This is a complex knot to untangle and there are a lot of people whose careers, and, possibly freedom, are at stake. This might include people in the White House, past and present, the Secret Service, who certainly knew Clinton was committing crimes, and the DOJ who covered for everybody involved.
You’ve got it. Acosta was a stooge for the higher ups in both parties and is doin his part by keeping his mouth shut. Given PDJT’s total non-involvement in Epstein’s activities, all of this is going to go quietly away.
Yeah.
Brilliantly ignoring that more underaged victims unequivocally means new crimes.
How brilliant.
And how “intellectual” of you to disregard that point in every way.
Of course he has been a celibate choir boy since 2007 don’t you know.
I’m wondering why they aren’t going after offenses committed after the Florida case? Surely this leopard hasn’t changed his spots.
If an offender offends again, and the crimes for which he is arrested and charged occured separately from, and subsequent to, those for which he had been convicted and sentenced, it is NOT “double jeopardy” for that offender to be prosecuted again. Happens all the time.
Otherwise, it would be like issuing every ex-con sex offender a “Get-Out-of-Jail-Free” card.
If there isn’t anything ‘new’ revealed and it’s the same old accusers and players from the previous conviction, then double jeopardy will apply. Sad to say so... But you can’t go around convicting people of the same crime over and over again.
Epstein is a scumbag who deserves a lengthy prison term, but right or wrong, the Federal Justice department already convicted him of serious crimes and gave him the sweetest plea deal ever. A deal worked out under the Obama era justice department and likely arranged and dictated by Clinton sycophants with the help of the Republican Acosta.
You’re right. They need to get to the bottom of the intelligence community mess.
Acosta claims that he was told to back off by “intelligence.” Mueller was the head of the FBI and he handled other cases in a similar way; see Whitey Bolger. This is a complex knot to untangle and there are a lot of people whose careers, and, possibly freedom, are at stake.
I really do think this was brought in NY to embarrass a Trump official. It looks like these are old charges, so why not go after newer ones unless you want this case to die an inglorious death in order to protect the powerful, set a bad precedent (and don’t underestimate this one), and give the impression of injustice run amok during the Trump administration.
The feds entered into the non-prosecution deal in 2007 -- Obama took over the justice department in 2009.
It looks like (according to CNN) that while the “why now?” question for these over a decade-old charges against Epstein originated from a Miami Herald investigative report done in Nov. 2018 by a reporter named Julie K. Brown.
Yeah, right.
This thing is designed to fail but make enough noise to embarrass Acosta.
Please drain the swamp!
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