Miami U.S. Attorney's Office recuses itself from Jeffrey Epstein case
Source: Miami Herald
Just days before a Friday deadline, the Justice Department has reassigned the Jeffrey Epstein victims rights case to the U.S. Attorneys Office in Atlanta, the attorneys representing Epsteins victims said Tuesday.
Miami federal prosecutors, in a letter to attorneys for the victims on Monday, said they had recused themselves from the case, according to Brad Edwards and Jack Scarola, representing Epsteins victims.
The reassignment means that the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, Byung J. BJay Pak, will oversee the case for the government. Pak, a former Georgia lawmaker, was appointed Atlantas chief federal prosecutor by President Donald Trump in October 2017.
The Justice Department is still under a Friday deadline for prosecutors to confer with the victims attorneys in an effort to settle the case. On Feb. 22, U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra in Palm Beach County ruled that federal prosecutors, under former Miami U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta, broke the law when they concealed a plea agreement from more than 30 underage girls in Palm Beach who had been sexually abused by Epstein, a multimillionaire New York hedge fund manager.
Read more: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article227136459.html
Leghorn21
(13,506 posts)Pak on Jan. 7 of this year:
Sex trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery that exploits and traumatizes some of the most vulnerable members of our society, said U.S. Attorney Byung J. BJay Pak. We stand united today with our colleagues at the Department of Justice, Eastern District of New York, and federal law enforcement partners, in applauding the courage of the three victims in this case who remained determined to see this prosecution to its conclusion. The lengthy prison sentence that this final defendant has received in this case is primarily the result of the valiant efforts of these human trafficking survivors to hold their traffickers accountable.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/fourth-defendant-sentenced-role-atlanta-based-mexican-sex-trafficking-ring
LETS DO THIS THING
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,031 posts)Good indication of how much trouble thy know they're in.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Key supervising Stone, Manafort cases among others.
War on many fronts.
flying_wahini
(6,440 posts)That kind of stinks.
Mr.Bill
(24,031 posts)but the guy they have now in Atlanta is.
watoos
(7,142 posts)Trump also just reassigned another federal judge who was overseeing cases involving the Mueller probe.
The SOB is above the law. If a judge isn't a crony of his he removes him/her.
It will take decades to undo all of the damage that Trump has done to our nation.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)lists provided to him by them almost entirely.
But just maybe many of these bad actors won't take decades to remove, or most often allow to resign -- if voters give us the power. We don't impeach judges often, but there may be more critical need for cleaning up our courts than we've ever had, or at least in nearly a century. Some of these political and religious operatives are as bad as the criminals brought before them, and many will also be proven judicially unfit by their own rulings.
Plus, and this may be big, generally speaking, these types are being appointed to get around the will of the people by court rulings for government and business and against the people. That may not go over too well.
Hope, hope.
Linda Ed
(490 posts)Ariana Fajardo Orshan was sworn in as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida appointed by drumpf