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lostincalifornia

(5,071 posts)
Sun Feb 1, 2026, 07:41 AM Yesterday

This Alexander Acosta is really a piece of work

Rene Alexander Acosta (born January 16, 1969)[1] is an American attorney and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he was appointed by President George W. Bush to the National Labor Relations Board, and later served as the assistant attorney general for civil rights and the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida. He is a former dean of Florida International University College of Law.

In 2005, police in Palm Beach, Florida, began investigating Jeffrey Epstein after a parent reported that he had sexually abused her 14-year-old daughter. In 2008, Acosta approved a controversial plea deal granting immunity from all federal criminal charges to Epstein.

As part of the plea deal, Epstein served 13 months in a minimum-security county jail.[2] He was also allowed to leave the facility up to 12 hours a day.[2]

From 2017 to 2019, Alexander Acosta served as the 27th United States secretary of labor. President Donald Trump nominated Acosta to be Labor Secretary on February 16, 2017, and he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 27, 2017.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Acosta


The cover up that is STILL GOING ON is so blatant. One would hope that it would drive the momentum to motivate much of the MSM to finally start doing their job. If this was President Biden or President Obama you can bet this would have been constant 24/7 coverage. Something to the degree what happened during Watergate. Then again with the some of the billionaires taking over much of the MSM, both in the written and televised avenues, it will probably have to be the independent sources such as PBS, etc. that will need to carry this out.

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This Alexander Acosta is really a piece of work (Original Post) lostincalifornia Yesterday OP
The cover up that is STILL GOING ON is so blatant. malaise Yesterday #1
His excuse was that the order came down from far above him and the deal had to be made. Scrivener7 Yesterday #2
Acosta must've been a colleague of John David "Roy" Atchison at DOJ-FL Kid Berwyn Yesterday #3
There are no coincidences. lostincalifornia Yesterday #4
It has been reported that Acosta met Epstein for a dinner date AFTER the plea deal. Midnight Writer 23 hrs ago #5

Scrivener7

(58,781 posts)
2. His excuse was that the order came down from far above him and the deal had to be made.
Sun Feb 1, 2026, 08:26 AM
Yesterday

A) Just following orders like a good Nazi
B) But his statement did tell us YEARS ago that this thing was at the highest levels.

I agree with you that the independent sources will need to break through the rock of silence on this, but I bet you that once it hits a certain critical mass, they'll all jump on it, act as if it's a brand new thing, and act as if they are totally morally outraged. When they were the ones covering it up for 20 years now.

Kid Berwyn

(23,550 posts)
3. Acosta must've been a colleague of John David "Roy" Atchison at DOJ-FL
Sun Feb 1, 2026, 09:11 AM
Yesterday

This guy was a pillar of the community, an Assistant US Attorney in Florida, yet he wanted sex with a child.



The Strange Tale of a Pedophile in the U.S. Justice Department

Legal Schnauzer, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The U.S. Department of Justice generated plenty of strange stories during the George W. Bush years. But one of the strangest involved John David "Roy" Atchison, an assistant U.S. attorney in Pensacola, Florida, who committed suicide after being caught in a pedophilia sting in Detroit.

Atchison's sad story has many connections to Birmingham and Alabama. And it raises this question: How did a guy with a shaky work record and a history of run-ins with the law get hired by the world's supposedly foremost crime-fighting organization? Did Atchison attain his lofty position because he had connections to powerful figures in the Alabama legal world?

Investigative journalist Margie Burns examines these questions, and much more, in a series of posts about the Atchison case at her blog, margieburns.com.

Burns begins with the actions that turned Atchison into a national figure in fall 2007:

This is not the story of a man who engaged in pedophilia for years or decades before being caught. It is the story of a man whipsawed by the strain of living up to a high-achieving family rooted in Birmingham, Ala., whose high-functioning connections assisted him for years in developing a career for which he turned out not to be suited. On Sept. 16, 2007, Assistant U.S. Attorney John David Roy Atchison, serving as a federal prosecutor in the Northern District of Florida, was arrested on credible charges of basically pedophilia. Atchison committed suicide in federal prison Oct. 5.

A dead pedophile might not sound like a tragedy. But Atchison was thought to be participating in a pedophile ring, and his death removed a useful informant from law enforcement resources. The question of how he was enabled to kill himself rather than being preserved for justice is one of the loose ends left hanging in his case.

CONTINUED 'though I wish it didn't...

http://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2010/09/strange-tale-of-pedophile-in-us-justice.html

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Margie Burns detailed how the guy rose up through the GOP ranks, warts and all. When former wife beating Judge Fuller and pedophile Atchison are given authority to put people behind bars on behalf of Uncle Sam, these are worse than NAZI times.



Just another lone nut child molester. A “suicide,” successful on his second try.

Midnight Writer

(25,189 posts)
5. It has been reported that Acosta met Epstein for a dinner date AFTER the plea deal.
Sun Feb 1, 2026, 10:33 AM
23 hrs ago

Sounds like they got very chummy for a prosecutor and a serial child abuser.

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