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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhile Watching Rachel & Her Story About Epstein I can Only Wonder
How is it possible Alex Acosta still has his law license?
tblue37
(65,212 posts)malaise
(268,635 posts)has 24 hour security
RockRaven
(14,883 posts)is messing with a client's money (a la Avenatti, but also indiscretions much less severe than his).
Everything else? Spankings of various kinds, but rarely disbarment.
elleng
(130,698 posts)and it's a state-by-state matter.
Ilsa
(61,688 posts)They don't want to be "epsteined."
dlk
(11,509 posts)Response to dlk (Original post)
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ancianita
(35,925 posts)successfully prosecute
-- the lobbyist Jack Abramoff,
-- the terrorism suspect José Padilla,
-- the founders of the Cali Cartel, and
-- Charles McArther Emmanuel, the son of Liberia's former leader.[10][19]
His intensity in procuring a deal for Epstein comes in that context. He's seen by many as teflon because of that body of legal work, though anyone can now see that he had "peaked" by the time of the Florida Epstein judgment.
Acosta's Epstein team took advantage of the substitute federal judge who wasn't as well read on the case as the judge who probably would not have allowed the "no prosecution" arguments that she allowed. Her judgment saved Epstein but wrecked the civil rights of unnamed victims.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Acosta
dlk
(11,509 posts)He absorbed his environment.