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To: bryan999

Excerpt from linked article.
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Still, his background is not without some controversy, including allegations that, while a U.S. attorney in Miami, he cut a sweetheart plea deal in 2008 with a billionaire investor accused of having sex with dozens of underage girls.

Acosta clerked for Justice Samuel Alito when he was a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He also served on the National Labor Relations Board under President George W. Bush from 2002 to 2003, then left the NLRB to become an assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights division between 2003 and 2005. He served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida from 2005 to 2009, when he joined FIU.


3 posted on 02/17/2017 4:45:00 AM PST by Neidermeyer (Show me a peaceful Muslim and I will show you a heretic to the Koran.)
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To: Neidermeyer

So we’re talking about the Labor Secretary nominee Alexander Acosta. That’s a start.


6 posted on 02/17/2017 4:49:03 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Neidermeyer

A person is INNOCENT unless or until PROVEN guilty in a
court of law.


16 posted on 02/17/2017 6:07:25 AM PST by Twinkie (The MSM is DEAD. - John 3:16)
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