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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBreaking - Federal prosecutors broke law in Jeffrey Epstein case, judge rules
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article226577419.htmlA judge ruled Thursday that federal prosecutors among them, U.S. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta broke federal law when they signed a plea agreement with a wealthy, politically connected sex trafficker and concealed it from more than 30 of his underage victims.
U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra, in a 33-page opinion, said that the evidence he reviewed showed that Jeffrey Epstein had been operating an international sex operation in which he and others recruited underage girls not only in Florida but from overseas, in violation of federal law.
Epstein used paid employees to find and bring minor girls to him., wrote Marra, who is based in Palm Beach County. Epstein worked in concert with others to obtain minors not only for his own sexual gratification, but also for the sexual gratification of others.
Instead of prosecuting Epstein under federal sex trafficking laws, Acosta, then the U.S. attorney in Miami, helped negotiate a non-prosecution agreement that gave Epstein and his co-conspirators immunity from federal prosecution. Epstein, who lived in a Palm Beach mansion, was allowed to quietly plead guilty in state court to two prostitution charges and served just 13 months in the county jail. His accomplices, some of whom have never been identified, were never charged.
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Breaking - Federal prosecutors broke law in Jeffrey Epstein case, judge rules (Original Post)
fleur-de-lisa
Feb 2019
OP
More tRump cabinet corruption. Do not let this be normalized. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Feb 2019
#3
RandySF
(58,807 posts)1. Keep an eye on this one.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)2. K&R
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)3. More tRump cabinet corruption. Do not let this be normalized. . . . nt
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)4. 3 pukes who need to be taken down immediately
Epstein, Dershowitz, Cernovich
lark
(23,099 posts)5. There was a 4th pal as well at the sex parties -
Donald J. Trump - lock these asshole rich rapists up and throw away the key!!
CDerekGo
(507 posts)6. Anyone? Anyone?
Believe I've heard that one of the 'Accomplices' in Epstein's Sex Trafficking is the illegal occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Anyone else seen, heard, read about this?