Jeffrey Epstein: Rorschach Test

Scumbag Jeffrey Epstein hobnobbed with various famous and powerful people, so tummies are aflutter with the prospect that some of them will be implicated in the course of his upcoming prosecution and associated investigations. The specific figures about whom the speculators choose to speculate of course depend on who specifically they would like to see disgraced.We already know one individual who is well and truly disgraced, Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta. But of course we knew that already. The new indictment of Epstein doesn ' t provide any new information about Acosta, but now we ' re hearing renewed calls for his resignation. The disgrace is that the Resident appointed him and the Senate confirmed him in the first place.Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig tells the tale: (Emphasis added)When he first faced sex trafficking charges in Florida in 2007, Epstein skated. His powerhouse team of attorneys somehow worked with Acosta to craft an agreement that was staggeringly unjust. Epstein faced decades behind bars butAcosta let him go with a plea to two minor state-level charges (for which he was sentenced to 13 months behind bars butserved most of it on work release). The deal also inexplicablyimmunized Epstein ' s co-conspirators.In 14-plus years as a prosecutor, I ' ve never even heard of the concept of giving a free pass to a defendant ' s co-conspirators. Worse, as a federal judgeruled recently, Acosta violated the rights of Epstein ' s victims by entering into ...
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