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Congress doesn't want to talk to Alex Acosta, Epstein's 'sweetheart deal' maker
Source: NBC News/Reuters
Aug. 6, 2025, 8:36 PM EDT
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Tuesday listed former attorneys general, a former FBI director, former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as people all subject to subpoenas for matters tied to Jeffrey Epstein.
However, not named in the news release was Alex Acosta — who was the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida whose secret non-prosecution agreement with Epstein created a spark that has turned into an inferno of controversy nearly 20 years later.
Acosta also was President Donald Trump's labor secretary during his first term. Acosta left the role in 2019 after he faced scrutiny over the Epstein plea agreement. Victims of Epstein’s sexual abuse are unhappy that Acosta was not among those subpoenaed.
“How can any genuine investigation into the federal government’s sweetheart deal with Epstein (including the extraordinary grant of blanket immunity to all his named and unnamed co-conspirators) omit Alex Acosta?” Epstein victim attorney Jack Scarola asked in a statement to NBC News.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/congress-doesnt-want-talk-alex-acosta-epsteins-sweetheart-deal-maker-rcna223543
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Ranking Members Robert Garcia and Summer Lee Statement After Forcing House GOP to Subpoena Epstein Files
Per an AP article (where the media carefully BURIED the names of some of the OTHERS subpoenaed) -
By STEPHEN GROVES
Updated 1:55 PM EDT, August 5, 2025
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The committee is also demanding interviews under oath from former attorneys general spanning the last four presidential administrations: Merrick Garland, William Barr, Jeff Sessions, Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder and Alberto Gonzales. Lawmakers also subpoenaed former FBI Directors James Comey and Robert Mueller.
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Over all these years, this is the first time I have heard Jeff Sessions mentioned anywhere. He was 45's AG for the first 2 years of his first term (Feb. 2017 - Nov. 2018) and after all the "recusals" he did, the Elf finally left and hid in a tree.
But the media and their headlines chose to highlight the Clintons and IGNORE the people as far back as Gonzales, who was AG under Shrub in 2005 - 2007 when the Epstein investigation began in earnest and arrests were made, and ignored Mike Mukasey, who took over as AG after Gonzales left (and I would HOPE he was on the subpoena list) -
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated 6:47 PM EDT, July 23, 2025
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Here is a timeline of the criminal cases against Epstein and his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for helping him abuse teenage girls.
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May 2006: Palm Beach police officials sign paperwork to charge Epstein with multiple counts of unlawful sex with a minor, but the county’s top prosecutor, State Attorney Barry Krischer, takes the unusual step of sending the case to a grand jury.
July 2006: Epstein is arrested after a grand jury indicts him on a single count of soliciting prostitution. The relatively minor charge draws almost immediate attention from critics, including Palm Beach police leaders, who assail Krischer publicly and accuse him of giving Epstein special treatment. The FBI begins an investigation.
2007: Federal prosecutors prepare an indictment against Epstein. But for a year, the money manager’s lawyers engage in talks with the U.S. attorney in Miami, Alexander Acosta, about a plea bargain that would allow Epstein to avoid a federal prosecution. Epstein’s lawyers decry his accusers as unreliable witnesses.
June 2008: Epstein pleads guilty to state charges: one count of solicitating prostitution and one count of soliciting prostitution from someone under the age of 18. He is sentenced to 18 months in jail. Under a secret arrangement, the U.S. attorney’s office agrees not to prosecute Epstein for federal crimes. Epstein serves most of his sentence in a work-release program that allows him to leave jail during the day to go to his office, then return at night.
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(I blame you for this!
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That's why Epstein got the "sweetheart" deal and the other female victims were unable to join the case. I read about this in Julie K. Brown's coverage in the Miami Herald, when she investigated the matter a few years ago. (It was a series of 3 newspaper articles, and now she has published a book.)
So the US intelligence community needs to answer for this - why did the CIA visit Alex Acosta in 2007 and tell him that Epstein was a spy for Mossad? Acosta couldn't drop the case but he gave Epstein the sweetest of deals that amounted to a slap on the wrist. It was presented to the judge as a done deal, and it prevented other victims from filing charges against Epstein.
She says it was US intelligence, without naming anyone in particular. Either she never got the name, or she did and she can't publish it.
I haven't read her book, but it's on my list. (It's a very long one!) Meanwhile I'm relying on my memory of her newspaper articles that were published about 2 or 3 years ago.
