About Judge Acosta's plea deal re Epstein: "The non-prosecution agreements also barred future prosecutions for those involved at that time of those individuals."

X.com ^ | September 16, 2025 | Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson

[ransomnote]

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Benny Johnson
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WATCH: FBI Director Kash Patel calls out Alex Acosta’s plea deal as the “original sin” in the Epstein case, saying Epstein wouldn’t have walked if he ran the bureau in 2008:

“I'm here to testify that the original sin in the Epstein case was the way it was initially brought by Mr. Acosta back in 2006.”

“The original case involved a very limited search warrant or set of search warrants and didn't take as much investigatory material it should have seized. If I were the FBI director then, it wouldn't have happened.”

“Acosta allowed Epstein to enter in 2008, to a plea and non-prosecution agreement, which then the courts issued mandates and protective orders legally prohibiting anyone from ever seeing that material ever again without the permission of the court."

 

 

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Kash Patel:

The search warrants were limited to small time periods to include 2002 to  2005 and 1997 to 2021.

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The non-prosecution agreements also barred future prosecutions for those involved at that time of those individuals.

Still this administration at the direction of President Trump has done more to turn over all the credible information we are legally only to do so and we will continue to work with Congress to achieve that end."

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: alexacosta; epsteindelusion; epsteindistraction; epsteinhysteria; epsteinhysterics; kashpatel; sideshow

[RummyChick]

Key people who were part of the trafficking were let off the hook. One is now missing. One married and now divorced a race car driver.

But to that I say -why didn’t they use the same excuse as they did to get Maxwell. If those women were covered by the agreement so should have been Maxwell.

[ptsal]

Amazing

[ransomnote]

Actually Alex Acosta was Epstein’s attorney, not the judge!

[Sacajaweau]

That’s what Maxwell’s case now in the courts is about...that she was supposed to be let off the hook.

[Oystir]

Maxwell actually has an argument, along with house staff, in PB back in the day of the Acosta doc. People in the Epstein web after the agreement do not have protection.

For Maxwell the issue will come to be, does another Fed jurisdiction outside of S. Fl have to respect the Acosta Fed protection, i.e., New York; and/or did she commit new crimes after the time frame of the Acosta plea agreement?

[Sacajaweau]

Probably limited to time frame. Remember she was convicted before he was arrested again. She’s been in jail for about 8 years.

[RummyChick]

Incorrect. Dershowitz brought on Ken Starr. ken starr went scorched earth with Bush Admin.

Acosta was a Bush lawyer

[RummyChick]

I just saw the headline. Yeah, he wasn’t the Judge either.

[RummyChick]

“For the plea system to work in practice, defense counsel and defendants must be able to rely on the written promises made by the government and trust that courts will honor and enforce those promises down the road, even when it means that the Department must forego a meritorious prosecution,” the association wrote.

https://www.courthousenews.com/doj-turmoil-adds-fuel-to-ghislaine-maxwell-bid-to-duck-conviction/

[RummyChick]

“Conclusion
In light of the circuit split, DOJ policy will be
of particular importance to defense counsel
in dealing with the government. Under DOJ
policy, which aligns closely with the Second
Circuit’s rule, “no district or division shall make
any agreement, including any agreement not
to prosecute, which purports to bind any other
district(s) or division without the approval of the
United States Attorney(s) in each affected district and/or the appropriate Assistant Attorney
General.” Justice Manual § 9-27.641 (updated
Feb. 2018). The justice manual recognizes
multi-district or “global” agreements to resolve
criminal conduct affecting multiple districts, so
long as the district or division making the agreement receives preapproval. See Justice manual
§ 9-27.641.
In the absence of a preapproved multi-district
resolution, DOJ’s “petite policy” is fully applicable. Under that well-established DOJ policy, subsequent federal prosecution by another district
or division is disfavored if that prosecution is
“based on substantially the same act(s) or transactions” as a prior state or federal prosecution.
Justice Manual § 9-2.031 (updated Jan. 2020).
Consequently, for defense counsel who have clients with broad geographical exposure, familiarity with the law in different circuits, and with DOJ
policy, is important to understanding the scope
of protection afforded by a plea agreement—at
least until the Supreme Court addresses the current circuit split.
Elkan Abramowitz and Jonathan Sack are members of Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello.

https://static.maglaw.com/docs/Abramowitz%20Sack%20NYLJ%2011.1.24.pdf

[Ann Archy]

He wasn’t Epstein’s attorney......he was the government attorney who made the deal. VERY BAD DEAL!

[Captain Peter Blood]

The deal was made and so here we are. Maxwell may end up out of jail.
So this deal was made when Bush was in office.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Acosta was the U.S. Attorney for South Florida, not Epstein’s lawyer. I think Epstein’s lawyer in that case just recently passed away a couple of months ago that would have been Roy Black.

[Ransomed]

The question I want answered is about what Alex Acosta told the first Trump administration team when asked why he gave Epstein the cushy deal after the DOJ spent big money building a case against him. Alex Acosta supposedly told them he was informed that “He belonged to intelligence and that it was above his paygrade.” I want to know if our intelligence agencies used or knew of foreign powers using underage US citizens who were abused in a blackmailing operation.

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