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G_j

(40,367 posts)
Sat Jan 5, 2019, 08:13 AM Jan 2019

Trump's Labor Secretary Cut a Deal for Multimillionaire & Serial Sexual Abuser Jeffrey Epstein

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/1/4/how_trumps_labor_secretary_cut_a


One Cabinet member after another has been forced to leave the Trump administration over corruption and other issues in recent months, leaving Trump’s Cabinet at its most unstable since he assumed office two years ago. We look at whether Trump’s Labor Secretary Alex Acosta will be the next Trump Cabinet member to go, after an explosive Miami Herald investigation revealed that Acosta cut what’s been described as “one of the most lenient deals for a serial child sex offender in history” as U.S. prosecutor in Florida. Multimillionaire hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein—friend to Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and others—has been accused of molesting and trafficking hundreds of underage girls in Florida, but served just 13 months in county jail. We speak with Julie Brown, longtime investigative reporter at the Miami Herald. Her series exposing multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes is titled “Perversion of Justice.”

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/1/4/perversion_of_justice_the_shocking_story
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Trump's Labor Secretary Cut a Deal for Multimillionaire & Serial Sexual Abuser Jeffrey Epstein (Original Post) G_j Jan 2019 OP
This one definitely needs some investigation. Is Acosta the Labor Secretary as payback for part 2 Vinca Jan 2019 #1
I think he's the recipient 2naSalit Jan 2019 #2
it makes me ill to say it, but G_j Jan 2019 #3
Indeed. 2naSalit Jan 2019 #4

Vinca

(50,279 posts)
1. This one definitely needs some investigation. Is Acosta the Labor Secretary as payback for part 2
Sat Jan 5, 2019, 08:16 AM
Jan 2019

of the agreement with Epstein? According to the agreement, besides the paltry sentence all the people cavorting with Epstein are immune from prosecution.

2naSalit

(86,650 posts)
2. I think he's the recipient
Sat Jan 5, 2019, 12:42 PM
Jan 2019

of all those missing children, the girls especially, from the internment camps at the border. Does anyone know where they are? We never see them in the news clips, only male prisoners.

I truly think that there is a huge, global child sex trafficking element to this whole racket and is something that could reorganize many governments when the news gets out. I think this is the link to that portion of this whole ugly mess, because this is just one arm of the crime family enterprise.

2naSalit

(86,650 posts)
4. Indeed.
Sat Jan 5, 2019, 05:44 PM
Jan 2019

Makes me sick to think of it but I have been suspicious of this element since the Examiner guy, Pecker, emerged in the whole thing with that safe full o' secrets...which I suspect is in Mueller's possession now. Think about it, beauty pageants and all that, just don't fall down the rabbit hole, it's ugly. And I think it's part of the whole mess.

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