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Swede

(36,813 posts)
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 01:13 PM Friday

Trump gave Alex Acosta a cabinet post in 2017 for giving Epstein a sweetheart deal (no federal prison)

On a muggy October morning in 2007, Miami’s top federal prosecutor, Alexander Acosta, had a breakfast appointment with a former colleague, Washington, D.C., attorney Jay Lefkowitz. It was an unusual meeting for the then-38-year-old prosecutor, a rising Republican star who had served in several White House posts before being named U.S. attorney in Miami by President George W. Bush. Instead of meeting at the prosecutor’s Miami headquarters, the two men — both with professional roots in the prestigious Washington law firm of Kirkland & Ellis — convened at the Marriott in West Palm Beach, about 70 miles away. For Lefkowitz, 44, a U.S. special envoy to North Korea and corporate lawyer, the meeting was critical.


https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220097825.html#storylink=cpy

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Trump gave Alex Acosta a cabinet post in 2017 for giving Epstein a sweetheart deal (no federal prison) (Original Post) Swede Friday OP
Get thee to the greatest page malaise Friday #1
Acosta said in an interview that he was told Epstein was "intelligence"... AntiFascist Friday #2

malaise

(286,814 posts)
1. Get thee to the greatest page
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 01:24 PM
Friday

Important - this has been stinking up the place for way too long

AntiFascist

(13,537 posts)
2. Acosta said in an interview that he was told Epstein was "intelligence"...
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 03:43 PM
Friday

and that this was above his pay grade and to drop the case.

Congress should be calling in Acosta to testify under oath whether this is true, and if it is, then who told him that. Then they should call in the person who told him that and move up the chain.

It would be extremely important, as far as oversight is concerned, to know whether intelligence was/is enabling these types of "honey trap" operations where so many young girls have become victims.

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