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Thu Feb 21, 2019, 10:03 PM Feb 2019

Labor Secretary Broke Federal Law While U.S. Attorney

Labor Secretary Broke Federal Law While U.S. Attorney

February 21, 2019 at 3:10 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 127 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/02/21/labor-secretary-broke-federal-law-while-a-prosecutor/

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“A judge ruled Thursday that federal prosecutors — among them, U.S. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta — broke federal law when they signed a plea agreement with a wealthy, politically connected sex trafficker and concealed it from more than 30 of his underage victims,” the Miami Herald reports.

“U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra, in a 33-page opinion, said that the evidence he reviewed showed that Jeffrey Epstein had been operating an international sex operation in which he and others recruited underage girls — not only in Florida — but from overseas, in violation of federal law.”

“Instead of prosecuting Epstein under federal sex trafficking laws, Acosta, then the U.S. attorney in Miami, helped negotiate a non-prosecution agreement that gave Epstein and his co-conspirators immunity from federal prosecution.”

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