Acosta, the Only Prosecutor to Put Jeffrey Epstein Behind Bars, Loses His Job American Spectator, Jul 14, 2019, Debra J. Saunders
Alex Acosta resigned as labor secretary Friday morning. It was inevitable once he became the target of all virtuous people in Washington for negotiating a 2008 non-prosecution agreement that put superrich sex offender Jeffrey Epstein behind bars for 13 months and required him to register as a sex offender and agree to pay restitution to his many teenage victims.
The Senate knew about the deal in April 2017 when 60 senators — including Sen. Catherine Cortez-Masto (D-Nev.) — voted to confirm Acosta. Three things have changed since then.
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Even still, Acosta had reason to broker the crappy deal. As he told reporters during a one-hour press conference Thursday, a trial would be a true “roll of the dice.†Rather than put Epstein’s traumatized victims through a grueling public tribunal, he chose not to risk an acquittal.
Epstein had hired a dream team of attorneys that included Alan Dershowitz, who successfully represented O. J. Simpson; Roy Black, who successfully represented Kennedy clan member William Kennedy Smith, who had been charged with rape; and Ken Starr, the special prosecutor whose probe led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.
In a 2011 open letter, Acosta described how the Epstein legal team “investigated individual prosecutors and their families, looking for personal peccadilloes that may provide a basis for disqualification†and tried to disqualify at least two prosecutors.
Given that kind of ruthlessness directed at career federal prosecutors, you can see why Acosta might fear the Epstein legal team could capitalize on the reluctance of those young witnesses to testify against him. One Jane Doe had called Epstein “an awesome man†and stated she hoped “nothing happens to (him).â€
So Acosta chose a deal that put Epstein behind bars and “put the world on notice that he was and is a sexual predator.†Horribly, the decision gave Epstein opportunities to victimize other girls as young as 14 after he was released. The only thing worse would be an acquittal after a trial.
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