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Leghorn21

(13,524 posts)
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 04:32 PM Apr 2019

Senate Dems demanding full results from DOJ re: Labor Secretary Acosta & his Epstein deal

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats are demanding the Department of Justice disclose the full results of an investigation into whether U.S. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta is guilty of “professional misconduct” in his handling of a sex crime prosecution against billionaire Jeffrey Epstein over a decade ago.

In a letter obtained by NBC News, Sens. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Tim Kaine, D-Va., are asking the DOJ to “make public all findings” from its probe into Acosta’s handling, as a former U.S. attorney, of a plea agreement in the Epstein case. The agreement allowed the wealthy financier and philanthropist to plead guilty to lesser charges in state court rather than face federal sex trafficking charges involving more than three dozen underage girls.

Acosta was the U.S. attorney for South Florida in 2007, when federal prosecutors struck a deal that allowed Epstein to plead guilty to two felony charges in state court and ruling out federal charges.

More:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-democrats-ask-doj-findings-probe-acosta-s-conduct-epstein-n994026



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Senate Dems demanding full results from DOJ re: Labor Secretary Acosta & his Epstein deal (Original Post) Leghorn21 Apr 2019 OP
Yeah, the DOJ will deliver those shortly after giving Congress COLGATE4 Apr 2019 #1

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)
1. Yeah, the DOJ will deliver those shortly after giving Congress
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 04:59 PM
Apr 2019

and the Public 1) The unredacted Mueller report and 2) Trump's tax returns. It's on their "To Do" list/

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