Btw—son Bill Barr is alleged (in some of the latest releases) to be involved in torturing a young woman with Epstein.
If the allegation is correct that could explain a lot of the former Attorney General’s role in the case in previous years.
Epstein undoubtedly had connections on both sides of the political aisle. Alexander Acosta, the U.S. District Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, an appointee of the younger President Bush, brokered a sweetheart plea agreement for Epstein's indictment in 2007 for sex trafficking minors. Acosta went into the private sector after Obama became President, and in 2017, he became President Trump's Secretary of Labor. Amid criticism of his handling of the Epstein case after the latte's reported death, Acosta resigned his position in July 2019. He reappears in March 2025 as a member of the board of directors of Newsmax, the conservative news medium and a major competitor of Fox for conservative viewership.
While there is no evidence of any direct tie between Acosta and Epstein, he keeps showing up in the Republican and conservative world.