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mobeau69

(11,141 posts)
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 06:02 AM Feb 2017

Trumps Labor nominee oversaw sweetheart plea deal in billionaires underage sex case

Source: POLITICO

President Donald Trump's new nominee for secretary of labor, Alexander Acosta, could face a grilling in the Senate over claims that — while he was the top federal prosecutor in Miami — he cut a sweetheart plea deal in 2008 with a billionaire investor accused of having sex with dozens of underage girls.

As the U.S. attorney for Southern Florida, Acosta agreed not to file any federal charges against the wealthy financier, Jeffrey Epstein, if he pled guilty to state charges involving soliciting prostitution and soliciting a minor for prostitution.

Epstein ultimately received an 18-month sentence in county jail and served about 13 months — treatment that provoked outrage from alleged victims in the case.

Soon after the deal was cut in 2008, two women filed suit claiming that the decision to forgo federal prosecution violated a federal law — the Crime Victims Rights Act — because they and other teenagers Epstein paid for sex were never adequately consulted about the plea deal or given an opportunity to object to it.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/alexander-acosta-trump-jeffrey-epstein-plea-235096



“I've known Jeff (Epstein) for 15 years. Terrific guy,'' Trump told New York Magazine back in 2002. "He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life."
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Trumps Labor nominee oversaw sweetheart plea deal in billionaires underage sex case (Original Post) mobeau69 Feb 2017 OP
Horrors never end with nomination of yet another swamp creature to Cabinet wishstar Feb 2017 #1
A notch above only means he can be safeinOhio Feb 2017 #2
K&R! Geez... And I was just looking at the list of "most read" stories on the website Rhiannon12866 Feb 2017 #3
This "sexual predator" must just hang out with, I don't even know how to describe them turbinetree Feb 2017 #4
soliciting prostitution and soliciting a minor for prostitution. mobeau69 Feb 2017 #5
Look at the list of powerful people involved with Epstein, that may give some insight into why... PoliticAverse Feb 2017 #6
Money................case close turbinetree Feb 2017 #14
Wow -- Trump and Epstein, together again regnaD kciN Feb 2017 #7
She was anonymous. former9thward Feb 2017 #11
Anonymous to the general public yes moda253 Feb 2017 #12
No, it was a fake lawsuit and everyone in the legal community knew it. former9thward Feb 2017 #15
Pedophiles and wife beaters Zoonart Feb 2017 #8
What? GeoWilliam750 Feb 2017 #9
They need to ask him if he ever visited Orgy Island. Vinca Feb 2017 #10
sickening to read starshine00 Feb 2017 #13

wishstar

(5,268 posts)
1. Horrors never end with nomination of yet another swamp creature to Cabinet
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 06:16 AM
Feb 2017

Just when I thought maybe this guy was a notch above the last nominee-

Rhiannon12866

(205,195 posts)
3. K&R! Geez... And I was just looking at the list of "most read" stories on the website
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 06:28 AM
Feb 2017

Every single one of them is about some major scandal/f*** up/embarrassment involving Trump...

turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
4. This "sexual predator" must just hang out with, I don't even know how to describe them
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 06:44 AM
Feb 2017

that they are all linked to grouping, assaulting, demeaning, etc........woman and then saying this:


“I've known Jeff (Epstein) for 15 years. Terrific guy,'' Trump told New York Magazine back in 2002. "He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life."

And if someone peon below the billionaire /millionaire class were to do this-------------they would be in jail for life.

Does he tdrumpf have some "black book" that he carries around or something, this is just amazing.


And the country has a Congress and Senate, that is just doing nothing on the competency of this criminal team, they have there agenda of party over country..................insane.





mobeau69

(11,141 posts)
5. soliciting prostitution and soliciting a minor for prostitution.
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 06:52 AM
Feb 2017

Mind-blowing! How could there not have been a statutory rape charge?

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)
6. Look at the list of powerful people involved with Epstein, that may give some insight into why...
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 06:59 AM
Feb 2017

he got off so lightly.

turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
14. Money................case close
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 06:31 PM
Feb 2017

but if you or I or someone else that can't even make bail did this, we would be on the nightly news for a week.

There are "two sets of books in this country" there's and then there are ours

regnaD kciN

(26,044 posts)
7. Wow -- Trump and Epstein, together again
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 07:18 AM
Feb 2017

…just like in that alleged rape case from just before the election, where the accuser backed down after having her life threatened by Trump supporters.

former9thward

(31,981 posts)
15. No, it was a fake lawsuit and everyone in the legal community knew it.
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 07:43 PM
Feb 2017

Which is why every court that it touched immediately tossed it. Sorry you fell for it.

Zoonart

(11,849 posts)
8. Pedophiles and wife beaters
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 08:24 AM
Feb 2017

of the world unite- The White House needs you to join the he-man woman hater club. This entire administration is disgusting.
Democrats should be in FULL REVOLT and are not.

The best, most consistent leadership coming from the Democratic Party is coming from the Congressional Black Caucus.
LOVE THEM!

 

starshine00

(531 posts)
13. sickening to read
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 11:16 AM
Feb 2017

what is this country coming to. I knew when I found out the charges against Trump for child rape involved Epstein that they were true. This creep needs to be out of office yesterday.

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