Alex Acosta had an 11 month gap

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in his incoming e-mails that coincided with his sweetheart deal for Epstein. This is from an ABC News article dated 11/16/20 with a byline from James Hill that details a fairly watered down review by the DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility regarding the deal and those involved. The report is worth a read because it not only shows how the review soft-pedaled any real criticism but it also brings names of DOJ prosecutors and officials who have slipped down the memory hole and who rightly should be called upon now to be interviewed in further investigations of this whole matter.

Here is the excerpt that begins the discussion of the "gap":

"In conducting its review, OPR indicated it had access to more than 850,000 emails of the five prosecutors who were the subject of the review as well as six additional witnesses. But 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."

To show you how cute the OPR was being in trying to whitewash everything the report goes on to say:

"After investigating the circumstances of the missing emails, which did not affect Acosta’s sent mail, the OPR determined it was most likely a “technological error” that caused those emails not to be preserved."

But if you just read that part quickly, which I'm sure they wanted, you might very well miss an astounding fact. They claim it didn't affect his sent e-mail. So for 11 months Acosta sat at his computer and wrote e-mails but received nothing and never found that to be unusual? Nobody ever said to him "Hey how come you didn't respond to my e-mail?" He never wondered how come people he sent e-mails to never responded to him? Sure thing.

But all of the people involved in the Acosta circle have gone the way of the "hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil" route. As the report notes:

“OPR questioned Acosta, as well as numerous administrative staff, about the email gap, the report said. “Acosta and the witnesses denied having any knowledge of the problem, or that they or, to their knowledge, anyone else made any efforts to intentionally delete the emails.”

Sure thing. Who among us hasn't gone for 11 months with our e-mail only allowing us to compose and send? Who among us hasn't used our e-mail for 11 months and never given a thought to why our inbox is always empty? Made perfect sense to the OPR.

Upon edit: This was also no doubt a network computer so how did nobody else suffer this?

https://abcnews.go.com/US/key-takeaways-justice-department-review-jeffrey-epstein-sweetheart/story?id=74222922