Calls mount for Labor Sec. Acosta to resign over plea deal for alleged pedophile Jeffrey Epstein
In the wake of the arrest of financier Jeffrey Epstein on sex-trafficking charges, Democratic leaders are calling for the resignation of Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, who as a prosecutor negotiated a plea deal that resulted in an exceptionally light sentence for Epstein on similar charges a decade ago.
Epstein was charged by federal prosecutors in Florida in 2007 for, as the Miami Herald put it in its award-winning reporting on the case, “assembling a large, cult-like network of underage girls — with the help of young female recruiters — to coerce into having sex acts behind the walls of his opulent waterfront mansion as often as three times a day.” He received what observers consider unusually lenient treatment by Acosta, at that time the U.S. attorney in Miami.
Epstein pleaded not guilty Monday to charges brought in the Southern District of New York alleging that he sexually abused and exploited dozens of minor girls between 2002 and 2005. A lawyer for Trump denied any connection between the president and Epstein, and presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway said the two haven’t spoken in “10 or 15 years.” Former President Bill Clinton also was in Epstein’s circle after leaving the White House, flying on Epstein’s jet dozens of times to various destinations, according to a 2015 article in Gawker which cited official logs for the flights.
Sens. Cory Booker and Kamala Harris called for Acosta to step down on Tuesday morning, along with former Rep. Beto O’Rourke.
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