It’s time for Labor Secretary Alex Acosta to resign!
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Back in 2008, multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein was charged with sexually abusing 40 minor girls between the ages of 13-17. Believing that local prosecutors would be steamrolled by Epstein’s high-priced lawyers, Florida officials asked then-federal prosecutor Alex Acosta to step in and handle the case. That turned out to be a damning decision.
Instead of using the weight of the US Attorney’s office to assure that Epstein be locked away for years to come, Acosta actually struck a non-prosecution agreement with the defendant’s lawyers — an agreement which allowed for a lesser plea on a state charge and came with the sweetheart deal that Epstein only spend 13 months in jail and be allowed to leave jail for long stretches of time to work from his office.
The deal was consummated, Epstein served the agreed-upon 13-month sentence, and all was seemingly forgotten… until recently.
Now, Jeffrey Epstein is back in the news for sexually abusing more underage girls — and Alex Acosta is coming under intense fire for being the man who allowed this pedophile to return to the streets and commit more heinous sexual crimes against children.
How/why did Alex Acosta botch the Epstein case so horribly? That is the million-dollar question.
“I’m not a sexual predator, I’m an ‘offender’ …it’s the difference between a murdered and a person who steals a bagel.” – Jeffrey Epstein
With all eyes now on him, current US Labor Secretary Acosta is defending his decision to seek leniency with Epstein in 2008 by claiming he secured the best deal he could.
“Facts are important and facts are being overlooked,” Acosta told reporters during a press conference at the Labor Department in Washington, insisting that his office had secured a reasonable sentence facing an uncertain trial with reluctant witnesses. “These cases are complex, especially when they involve children.”
“I know in 2019, looking back at 2008, things look different,” Acosta continued in an attempt to drive home the point that “today’s world treats victims very, very differently.”
When asked if he has any regrets from his deal that allowed Epstein to serve only 13 months then return back to the streets to molest more children, Acosta was tentative.
“No regrets is very hard question,” he said, adding: “You always go back and say ‘what if?’ What I can say is at the time … this was the view of the office.”
A number of Democrats, including several involved in the 2020 presidential campaign have called for Acosta’s immediate resignation. However, not surprisingly, Donald Trump raced to his Labor Secretary’s defense.
“I can only say this from what I know and what I do know is that he’s been a great, really great secretary of labor,” Trump said. “The rest, we’ll have to look at it, we’ll have to look at it very carefully. But you’re talking about a long time ago and again it was a decision made, I think, not by him but by a lot of people. So we’re going to look at it very carefully.”
Political analysts inside Washington are already predicting it’s not a matter of if, but when Acosta resigns. By allowing him back on the streets, Acosta paved the way for Epstein to commit more crimes against children between 2008 and 2019 — and now it’s time for them both to pay.
The young sexual victims and their families won’t have it any other way.
So we know how this will probably play out. Acosta will stay until Trump decides he’s of no more use to him…then Trump will order one of his other minions to get rid of Acosta – Trump, NOT having the guts to do it himself. The overall tragedy of this absolutely putrid story is that Epstein, a well-known sexual predator of young girls (children) has so many friends in HIGH places (Dems and Repubs) that he was able to carry our his evil deeds for decades with wanton abandon and without fear of having to answer for them. Rich, white, male trash…men of his ilk like Bill Clinton and the creature currently in the White House. Sadly, all things considered, IMO, Acosta is a nobody…a rotten little human-cog in the Massively wicked machine called ‘the world of American Elites.” Do I think he should resign? Yes. But frankly, what he… Read more »