Epstein Secrets

ing and trafficking dozens of underage girls in Florida, but he ended up serving just 13 months in county jail after the U.S. prosecutor in Florida, Alexander Acosta, cut what's been described as "one of the most lenient deals for a serial child sex offender in history." The plea deal allowed Epstein to avoid a f

vestigation and granted immunity to any "co-conspirators." As detailed last fall in a blockbuster series by Julie K. Brown of The Miami Herald, Mr. Acosta and his office worked unusually closely with Mr. Epstein's legal team on the deal. Both sides also labored to keep the agreement secret until it was

d sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. EFTA00076627 But Barr will recuse himself from an internal Justice Department probe of current Labor Secretary's Alex Acosta involvement in approving a controversial no-prosecution deal with the wealthy financier a decade ago, officials said Tuesday. Attorney General Wil

rs made news recently. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump found himself in hot water after saying that he didn't believe North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un was complicit in Otto's death. "What happened is horrible," Trump said during the Hanoi Summit in February. "I really believe something very bad h

at has haunted me is that there I was, trying to expose this man in 2003, and the original—the first FBI investigation, the one that got neutered by Alexander Acosta, didn't begin until 2006, so it's always been on my conscience that for three years he molested hundreds of sort of helpless, poor women who were in

vestigation and granted immunity to any "co-conspirators." As detailed last fall in a blockbuster series by Julie K. Brown of The Miami Herald, Mr. Acosta and his office worked unusually closely with Mr. Epstein's legal team on the deal. Both sides also labored to keep the agreement secret until it was

of accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. But Barr will recuse himself from an internal Justice Department probe of current Labor Secretary's Alex Acosta involvement in approving a controversial no-prosecution deal with the wealthy financier a decade ago, officials said Tuesday. Attorney General Will

rs made news recently. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump found himself in hot water after saying that he didn't believe North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un was complicit in Otto's death. "What happened is horrible," Trump said during the Hanoi Summit in February. "I really believe something very bad h

the 20o Trump agreed to leave there last year. EFTA00162647 The Justice Department's internal disciplinary arm concluded that then-U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta exhibited "poor judgement" but not "professional misconduct" when he approved a generous deal for Jeffrey Epstein to resolve allegations that he m

proved a generous deal for Jeffrey Epstein to resolve allegations that he molested dozens of girls years ago. The investigation's summary chastised Acosta, who went on to serve as Trump's labor secretary before resigning amid uproar over his involvement in the Epstein case, and acknowledged that Epste

ture Department." • China finally congratulated Biden for his win. (Eva Dou) • Other leaders, including Russia's Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong Un, still have not done so. (Rick Noack) • The lawyer for Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse, a teenager charged with killing two Black Lives Matters pr

was `engaged' before pointing out that (Treasury Secretary) Mnuchin was the lead negotiator on behalf of the administration in the fiscal talks." Alexander Acosta's resignation is the most recent illustration of Mulvaney's power: "Weeks after he was named acting White House chief of staff, Mulvaney summoned th

ulvaney summoned the labor secretary for a tense January encounter that became known inside the West Wing as `the woodshed meeting.' Mulvaney told Acosta in blunt terms that the White House believed he was dragging his feet on regulation rollbacks desired by business interests and that Page 17956 E

istreatment of thousands of protesters who have been imprisoned since anti-government demonstrations have convulsed Iran." — Trump's bromance with Kim Jong Un appears to be turning sour after the North Korean leader responded to Trump's "rocket man" diss by invoking the "senile dotard" taunt. Simon Denyer

tt Zapotosky and Halley Fuchs) 2. Federal prosecutors are fighting efforts to throw out the lenient non-prosecution agreement that Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, as a prosecutor, offered to alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The Justice Department told a federal judge that Epstein's alleged victims, wh

-prosecution agreement that Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, as a prosecutor, offered to alleged sex traffic

om the Wall Street Journal's Timothy W. Martin: "Mr. Moon didn't provide a timeline for the meeting between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. He said the two sides had held 'behind-the-scenes' talks, not official dialogue, after February's Vietnam summit that ended abruptly without a de