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Mrs. Overall

(6,839 posts)
Tue Mar 5, 2019, 10:40 PM Mar 2019

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. Attorney’s Office in Atlanta, the attorneys representing Epstein’s 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 Epstein’s 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 Atlanta’s 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

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Miami U.S. Attorney's Office recuses itself from Jeffrey Epstein case (Original Post) Mrs. Overall Mar 2019 OP
Pak sounded strong at the conclusion of a sex trafficking case earlier this year: Leghorn21 Mar 2019 #1
Representing the Epstein types is . . . Kenneth Starr empedocles Mar 2019 #2
I'm sure he's not cheap. Mr.Bill Mar 2019 #5
Also Rachel reports a replacement key in DC office, with a trump appointee. empedocles Mar 2019 #6
So the guy in Miami is a Trump appointed Chief Federal Prosecutor? flying_wahini Mar 2019 #3
I don't know about the guy in Miami, Mr.Bill Mar 2019 #4
That's what I was thinking, another white wash. watoos Mar 2019 #7
Republican backers, including religious right. Trump appoints from Hortensis Mar 2019 #9
No it's a woman Linda Ed Mar 2019 #8

Leghorn21

(13,506 posts)
1. Pak sounded strong at the conclusion of a sex trafficking case earlier this year:
Tue Mar 5, 2019, 10:50 PM
Mar 2019

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

LET’S DO THIS THING

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
6. Also Rachel reports a replacement key in DC office, with a trump appointee.
Tue Mar 5, 2019, 11:54 PM
Mar 2019

Key supervising Stone, Manafort cases among others.

War on many fronts.

 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
7. That's what I was thinking, another white wash.
Tue Mar 5, 2019, 11:55 PM
Mar 2019

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)
9. Republican backers, including religious right. Trump appoints from
Thu Mar 7, 2019, 08:49 AM
Mar 2019

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)
8. No it's a woman
Wed Mar 6, 2019, 02:53 AM
Mar 2019

Ariana Fajardo Orshan was sworn in as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida appointed by drumpf

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