Alex Acosta, Who Gave “Sweetheart Deal” to Jeffrey Epstein, Agrees to Testify to House Panel

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Alex Acosta, Who Gave “Sweetheart Deal” to Jeffrey Epstein, Agrees to Testify to House Panel https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/26/headlines/alex_acosta_who_gave_sweetheart_deal_to_jeffrey_epstein_agrees_to_testify_to_house_panel​

President Trump’s former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta will testify in front of a House Oversight panel next month about brokering a plea deal with the dead serial sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Acosta was the former U.S. attorney for South Florida when he offered a nonprosecution agreement to Epstein back in 2008, allowing him to plead guilty to a single state charge, which ended the FBI’s investigation without federal charges. In his first term, Trump appointed Acosta as labor secretary; he was forced to resign in 2019 following criticism of his handling of Epstein’s plea deal.​

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Alex Acosta was Trump's Labor Secretary in 2017, forced to resign amid criticism of his mishandling of the Epstein case.
Why prosecutors of Florida's Dept of Justice simply walked away from a 53-page indictment of Jeffrey Epstein in 2008 and instead of indicting him, gave him a plea deal instead, is a question that needs to be answered by Alex Acosta when he appears before Congress on Sept 19 to testify under oath later this month. According to several lawyers representing some of the victims, it was all done behind closed doors, without the women's attorneys present.

Here's the list of those who worked out the deal for Epstein behind closed doors;

Alan Dershowitz - he helped negotiate the plea deal for Epstein
Alex Acosta -U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida
Jay Lefkowitz - a politically connected lawyer
Ken Starr - joined Epstein's defense team during the negotiations to help resolve the case.
Matthew Menche - As an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Menchel was also involved in the negotiations on behalf of the prosecution.

If anyone wonders who was blocked from that meeting, in addition to the victim's attorneys, Maria Villafana, who was a federal prosecutor in Acosta's office, was blocked. She had prepared a 53-page indictment against Epstein, but she was blocked from attending the meeting. The indictment was never filed.

*At the time, the victims were not notified of the secret plea deal, a violation of their rights under the Crime Victims' Rights Act. A group of victims' attorneys, including Jack Scarola and Brad Edwards, later challenged the legality of the deal.

 

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Ken Starr investigated Bill Clinton for over four years. He was shocked and appalled by the Clinton's immorality. Shocked! And! Appalled!

Ken Starr - joined Epstein's defense team during the negotiations to help resolve the case.


Ken Starr served on Jeffrey Epstein's legal defense team in the mid-2000s, where he played a key role in securing a highly controversial 2008 non-prosecution agreement for Epstein. The deal, which shielded Epstein from broader federal sex trafficking charges, allowed him to plead guilty to lesser state charges and serve only 13 months in a county jail with extensive work-release privileges.
Starr reportedly led a "scorched-earth" legal campaign against the prosecutors, using his political connections to pressure the Department of Justice. Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown detailed Starr's efforts in her book Perversion of Justice.
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James Hill of ABC News remarks that in "an appendix to the report, OPR revealed there was an 11-month gap in Acosta’s incoming emails that coincided with the time frame of the Epstein investigation and negotiations over the deal... After being informed of the “data gap” at a briefing for victims and their attorneys last week, Cassell said he was stunned, because he and his co-counsel Edwards have been seeking those emails for several years in their litigation on behalf of the victims, and they had never been told about the issue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Acosta

Both Epstein cases, the one in 2008 and in 2018, go deeper and involve so many powerful people, that it's hard to even imagine. Deutsche Bank, a safe place for Russian oligarchs to put their money, was fined $150 million for allowing Jeffrey Epstein to make payments to Russian models and withdraw suspicious amounts of cash during five years as a client.

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