Posted on 02/19/2017 10:02:10 PM PST by Tours
On Thursday, President Donald Trump named Alexander Acosta as his new nominee for secretary of labor — the same man who cut a sweetheart plea deal with billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in 2008.
Acosta, while working as the top federal prosecutor in Miami, agreed not to file any federal charges against Epstein — who was accused of having sex with dozens of underage teen girls — in exchange for him pleading guilty to state charges of soliciting prostitution and soliciting a minor for prostitution. The infamous pedophile had been accused of recruiting dozens of underage girls into a sex-slave network. Epstein was known for flying wealthy friends, including Bill Clinton, on his private plane dubbed “the Lolita Express,” to a private Caribbean island, known as “Orgy Island.” According to flight logs, Bill Clinton flew on Epstein’s private plane 26 times from 2001 to 2003. It was alleged that Epstein had hidden cameras all over his property so that he could film prominent people having sex with the minors for use as blackmail material.
Despite the incredibly disturbing allegations in his case, Epstein was only sentenced to 18-months in a county jail. He ultimately served around 13 months, much to the dismay of his victims — who filed a lawsuit over the handling of the case in 2008. “The Government and Epstein conspired to conceal the NPA (non-prosecution agreement) from the victims to prevent them from joining any objection, and to avoid the firestorm of controversy that would have arisen if it had become known that the Government was immunizing a politically-connected billionaire and all of his conspiracies from the prosecutions of hundreds of federal crimes against minor girls,” attorneys for Epstein’s victims wrote in a court filing for their lawsuit against the government. LawNewz notes that “recent filings in the case also raise legitimate questions about what else prosecutors would have discovered if the federal investigation had not come to an abrupt end with the promise of no prosecution by the feds.” Acosta is not named in the lawsuit over the handling of the Epstein case, but it will surely become a heated topic during his upcoming confirmation hearing.
This is all in President Trump’s master plan to put the Clintons in prison.
Acosta will have a confirmation hearing and at that hearing Republican senators will ask him all about Epstein and Epstein’s involvement with Bill Clinton.
He will be under oath and have to tell the truth.
Timpanagos1 wrote:
“This is all in President Trump’s master plan to put the Clintons in prison.
Acosta will have a confirmation hearing and at that hearing Republican senators will ask him all about Epstein and Epstein’s involvement with Bill Clinton.
He will be under oath and have to tell the truth.”
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Thanks for the observation!
Will they ask those questions ?
Ping
Me thinks that anyone rich and or powerful enough to have caught the eye of the administration are at least through association part of the swamp. Like Diogenes looking for an honest man, I doubt we will find a Mr. Smith willing to go to Washington.
“Good.Grief. Who is advising President Trump to choose such a reprobate for his Cabinet? Anyone who has been in a Bush administration should be automatically disqualified.”
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I agree - no Bushies!
Democrats should love him.
The honorable but difficult remedy for someone in those circumstances is to create a paper trail of objections or to resign. Such integrity though risks adverse career consequences.
Well,you've gotta agree that under the former Community Organizer-In-Chief a "paper trail" would be useless...laughed at,in fact.And resignation,as you said,has huge drawbacks as well.
Epstein seems like the drug dealer who got caught up in sampling the merchandise.
He must have supplied a lot of info on people to receive such a light tap on the wrist for raping all those children.
“He must have supplied a lot of info on people to receive such a light tap on the wrist for raping all those children.”
A very nasty person likely protected by even more powerful nasty, and dangerous, people.
This goes way up into the political, intelligence agency and criminal food chains.
There is a big upside though to a principled resignation: you do not have to look back knowing that you chickened out when you should have opposed dishonesty by your superiors.
Of course there is.And for lawyers that upside wouldn't necessarily come at a high cost.But this is a dog-eat-dog world and many people don't have skills that are in such high demand that they can easily change employers.The ability to feed one's family is a strong motivator.
All too true about the need to feed one’s family as an impediment to devil-take-the-hindmost courage.
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