Trump labor secretary out of running for attorney general after Miami Herald report

[mobeau69]

Source: Miami Herald

Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta is out of the running to be President Donald Trump’s attorney general following a Miami Herald report that he oversaw a sweetheart deal for a wealthy financier accused of raping teenage girls and running a sex-trafficking ring, according to two people close to the president.

The investigation, published Wednesday, was “not helpful” to Acosta, who was a federal prosecutor in Florida before coming to Washington, the two advisers said.

The investigation, which reported that Acosta, then U.S. attorney cut a secret deal to allow billionaire Jeffrey Epstein to serve only 13 months in a county jail, is “clearly something” that is being widely circulated among Trump aides, one of the people said. The agreement “essentially shut down an ongoing FBI probe” and granted immunity to “any potential co-conspirators.” according to the story

The investigation, which reported that Acosta, then U.S. attorney cut a secret deal to allow billionaire Jeffrey Epstein to serve only 13 months in a county jail, is “clearly something” that is being widely circulated among Trump aides, one of the people said. The agreement “essentially shut down an ongoing FBI probe” and granted immunity to “any potential co-conspirators.” according to the story.



Read more: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article222365010.html

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[saidsimplesimon]

1. The ratings game

I have a love hate relationship with the owners of MSM. They can shine a light or they can create stories for ratings and profit.

[efhmc]

2. If they do it right. sometimes the two work together.

nt

[saidsimplesimon]

3. I agree, thank you.

[RockRaven]

4. I would say "he ought to be out of running for Sec Labor" but this was all known before confirmation

and Repukes in Congress DIDN'T CARE THEN, DON'T CARE NOW, WON'T CARE TOMORROW.

He let a billionaire get away with terrible crimes. That's a feature, not a bug, in GOP circles.

[NCjack]

5. Awe !!! I had high hopes he would get the job

before a killer piece would be published about him.

[mpcamb]

6. Love that free press! Keep reporting and, most importantly, stay alive.

[Judi Lynn]

7. After seeing your article, I found a couple of articles with information I've never seen: creepy!

Serial Pervert, Jeffrey Epstein, and the Sweetheart Deal That Should Disgust You
NOVEMBER 28, 2018 BY SUSAN WRIGHT

So this bit of “crime and justice” news was floated by the Miami Herald today, and I think it’s important enough to talk about.

Let’s start with the name, Jeffrey Epstein. You’ve probably heard it before.

Epstein is the wealthy philanderer accused of improper activities with underaged girls.

And by “improper,” we’re talking sex trafficking of minor girls.

FBI and court records show that he would host “sex parties” on his private jets, and at his homes in Manhattan, the Caribbean, and New Mexico.

More:
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/susanwright/2018/11/serial-pervert-jeffrey-epstein-made-a-sweetheart-deal-with-this-trump-cabinet-member/

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Jeffrey Epstein Met One Of His Underage Victims Via Trump’s Mar-A-Lago

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https://tinyurl.com/y8v5qfeo

Donald Trump (L), Jeffrey Epstein (R)

by
JakeThomas
3 hrs

Virginia Roberts met Jeffrey Epstein at 16 through her job as a locker room attendant at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago.

When Virginia Roberts was 16 years old, like many teenagers she went about securing her first job — locker room attendant at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida — but that is where the similarities between Roberts’ childhood and that of most teens end.

By the time she began working at Mar-a-Lago, Roberts had already fallen into drug use and skipping school after being sexually molested at the age of 12, was in and out of foster homes at 13, and by the age of 14 was living on the street.

Then, according to an exhaustive report by the Miami Herald, Roberts fell victim to sex trafficking.

In Miami, the runaway became a captive of a 65-year-old sex trafficker, Ron Eppinger. For months, she says, she was sexually abused, kept in an apartment and pimped out to pedophiles. After his indictment in 2000 on trafficking charges, Roberts returned to West Palm Beach and tried to heal.

More:
https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/news/jeffrey-epstein-met-one-of-his-underage-victims-via-trump-s-mar-a-lago-P9ePD-7_1UiZCCZuMU3c1Q/

[mobeau69]

8. Thanks. I'm glad this is getting another look.

Epstein went through the monied class justice system.