Epstein Secrets

owns the island of Little St. James in the Virgin Islands, “My understanding is that it’s a very complicat

4 The Virgin Islands Daily News VIRGIN ISLANDS Saturday, February 23, 2019 White House ‘looking into’ Acosta’s role in illegal sex offender plea deal By JOHN T. BENNETT CQ-Roll Call WASHINGTON — _ White House press secretary Sarah Huck- abee Sanders on Fri

ite House press secretary Sarah Huck- abee Sanders on Friday declined to say whether President Donald Trump still has confidence in La- bor Secretary Alexander Acosta, a day after a federal judge ruled the Justice Department broke the law while Acosta was a U.S. attorney. A judge said Acosta — then the U.S. attorn

victim, the fil- ing said. It allows victims the “rea- sonable right” to confer with the U.S. attorneys handling the case. The deal reached between Acos- ta and Epstein’s attorneys allowed him to not be prosecuted in fed- eral court, and instead sentenced in state court. The immunity from prosecution also

nd manager who splits his time between the Virgin Islands and Palm Beach, Fla., faced a possible life sente

CAITLIN OSTROFF Miami Herald MIAMI More than two dozen lawmakers are demanding an inves- ligation into possible misconduct by US. Secretary of Labor Alexan- der Acosta, who, as a former federal prosecutor in Miami, helped broker a secret plea deal for a multimillionaire accused of running an underage sex trafficking

80 possible victims, most of them 13 to 16 years old. Several of them, now in thei late 20s and early 30s, told the Herald that they felt betrayed by Acos- ta and other prosecutors who failed to treat them as victims and labeled them as prostitutes — even though they were under the age of consent. Acosta,

residences in New York City and the U.S. Virgin Islands, among other locales. Emily Michot emichot@miamih

sued for Epstein’s computers, which were apparently removed from his Palm Beach home prior to the police search. August: The U.S. attorney in Miami, Alexander Acosta, enters into direct discussions about the plea agreement; a motion to compel production of Epstein’s computers is delayed. September: Federal prosec

ool and, later still, President Trump’s secretary of labor. Miami Herald file photo October: With the non-prosecution agreement still being debated, Acosta meets with Epstein lawyer Jay Lefkowitz at the West Palm Beach Marriott on Okeechobee Road to discuss finalizing a deal. Among the terms agreed upon:

in which a wealthy, politically connected Virgin Islands financier avoided potentially severe penalties fo

k, lives on Little St. James Island off St. Thomas. Epstein, now 66, reached a non- prosecution deal in 2008 with then- Miami U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta's office to secretly end a fed- eral sex abuse investigation involving at least 40 teenage girls that could have landed him behind bars for life. He