Acosta ... Dershowitz and Ken Starr ... grrrrrrr

[UpInArms]

Federal prosecutors in Florida—including President Trump’s current Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta—broke the law when they signed a secret plea agreement with billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a Palm Beach judge ruled Thursday.

U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra ruled that the decision to keep more than 30 of Epstein’s accusers in the dark about the non-prosecution deal that allowed Epstein, a prominent financier with political connections, to avoid federal prosecution was unconstitutional.

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Those lawyers, including Sexgate prosecutor Ken Starr and celebrity attorney Alan Dershowitz, created the secret 2008 plea deal with Acosta, who was then Miami’s top federal prosecutor, and other attorneys unbeknownst to the billionaire’s alleged victims, the Herald investigation found.

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Thursday’s decision concluded an 11-year investigation into Epstein’s plea agreement, which revealed hundreds of emails showing how Acosta and other prosecutors worked with Epstein’s legal team to conceal the deal from victims and the public.

... more at ....

https://www.thedailybeast.com/alexander-acosta-trumps-labor-secretary-broke-the-law-in-jeffrey-epstein-case-judge

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[Fuzzpope]

1. Please, ffs just one fucking time

LET JUSTICE BE SERVED.

[zaj]

4. No $#!+

[empedocles]

2. An indication of how much justice can be served before this is over.

We need a powerful, justice wave.

[marble falls]

3. This whole case stinks. A little light will be a good thing let the chips fall where they may ...

this guy trafficed in minor women. He and anybody associated in his foul trade need to meet justice.

[FailureToCommunicate]

5. The Orange One's name pops up in this evil tale time and again. Will he skate away from

this foul deed as well?

[oldsoftie]

6. This whole Epstein thing needs to be taken out into the sunlight. A LOT of people need exposing.

[RandiFan1290]

14. That is what we are trying to do

While his TRUMP allies try to protect him and his perverted pedo pals.

[Quixote1818]

7. Some offshore accounts were filled up secretly by Epstein

I'm guessing

[watoos]

8. Epstein had a lot of big names in his little black book.

[oldsoftie]

15. And thats why its been swept under the rug for so long. Lets see those names

[SayItLoud]

9. Maybe Michael Cohen can shed some tRUMP light on this....nt

[BigmanPigman]

10. Rich, white men getting away with murder...again...still.

When is this ever going to change? Certainly not in my lifetime.

[trueblue2007]

11. Trump was .... or maybe still is Epstein's friend.

[Igel]

12. The story's morphing as it gets misquoted along the way.

The original article in the Miami Herald was crystal clear.

The original decision was a decision. "Prosecutorial discretion." Presumably Acosta agreed to what his people negotiated. The law wasn't broken when the secret agreement was reached--unless we define "secret" in just the right way.

The law was broken when they did not tell the victims about the agreement not to prosecute. Moreover, they didn't just fail to tell them, they took active steps to hide the agreement. The remedy is telling: Go and reach a settlement on this point with the victims. Not "revoke the decision."

The judge also pointed out that the decision not to prosecute was binding on the jurisdiction that agreed to the deal. That entails "it is not binding on the other jurisdictions." Something that's fairly obvious, but needs to be said.

The Miami Herald was clear.

Political Wire, The Hill, and others were less clear and seemed to spread the illegality from just "keeping a secret" to "making a deal and keeping it secret." This OP divorces the two to a greater extent and says, "making a secret deal" was illegal; "keeping it from the victims" was illegal.

[UpInArms]

13. Seems like it was Judge Kenneth A. Marra's decision...

as he ruled it unconstitutional...

U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra ruled that the decision to keep more than 30 of Epstein’s accusers in the dark about the non-prosecution deal that allowed Epstein, a prominent financier with political connections, to avoid federal prosecution was unconstitutional.

[UpInArms]

16. Here's the latest Miami Herald reporting

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article221897990.html