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mia

(8,363 posts)
2. He didn't contact the victims.
Wed Jul 10, 2019, 02:40 PM
Jul 2019
...In 2007, as several victims were seeking justice, the judge noted that federal prosecutors met with Epstein's lawyers — a high-profile group with connections to multiple presidential administrations — to discuss keeping the women in the dark.

Acosta met Epstein's lawyer, Jay Lefkowitz, for breakfast on Oct. 12, 2007. Afterward, Lefkowitz thanked him in a letter for agreeing to not contact any victims or their lawyers about the deal, according to court documents....


https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/claudiakoerner/jeffery-eptsein-prosecution-deal-judge-ruling

Response to mia (Original post)

mia

(8,363 posts)
10. Good question: How can you be trusted to enforce human trafficking laws?
Wed Jul 10, 2019, 03:04 PM
Jul 2019

I think that Acosta is a human trafficking facilitator.

brush

(53,918 posts)
13. He thinks he's smooth and got away with it. The panelists afterwards...
Wed Jul 10, 2019, 04:00 PM
Jul 2019

aren't buying his bullshit though. I was hoping one of the reporters had asked him if he signed off on the agreement since he was US Attorney? He kept saying career prosecutors negotiated the deal, effectively throwing them under the bus while trying to dodge it himself.

What a disgusting and smug individual. Those were children Epstein raped and all he got was 18 months of half days at his office and nights in jail.

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