“the FBI director has no influence on a judge’s sentence?”
If you had read the article you might understand what happened. It appears that you did not.
The case was run from FBI headquarters in DC.
Spring of 2008: Emails between FBI agents and the local ass’t US attorneys reveal “continued delays” in getting the case to a grand jury “due to the failure to receive decision from FBI DC headquarters.”
In other words, FBI headquarters(Mueller) deliberately refused to authorize FBI agents to investigate the case.
9/27/2007: Epstein signs the non-prosecution agreement
10/31/2007: Internal emails show that FBI agents still had not interviewed all the victims.
Five months after the plea deal was reached, FBI agents still hadn’t interviewed all the victims/witnesses. FBI agents hadn’t even seen all the physical evidence.
From the 5/24/18 FBI Vault release: “Epstein has also provided information to the FBI as agreed upon.”
Epstein escaped serious charges for molesting over twenty underage girls and probably boys too.
Similar to the Whitey and Billy Bulger case in Massachusetts, Mueller’s corrupt FBI refused to investigate Epstein.
Because the FBI refused to investigate there was a lack of evidence. This made it almost certain that Clinton friend and donor Jeffrey Epstein would receive an extremely light sentence.
Mueller made sure the resulting sentence was light by minimizing the investigation & information gleaned therefrom.
Obstruction of justice. Cover-up.
That’s just what I suspected; I wonder if the FBI will ever be cleaned up.