Earlier this week, a lawyer said Jeffrey Epstein, a former friend of Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, had 'improper sexual contact' with at least one woman under the age of 21 in Epstein's business office in West Palm Beach, Florida, during his work release from jail.
The supervision that Jeffrey Epstein, now accused of child sex trafficking, received from jailers in Florida a decade ago is now the subject of an internal investigation on the heels of claims he had sexual contact with at least one young woman, authorities said Friday.
Trump's Labor secretary, Alex Acosta, resigned last week after criticism of his cutting the federal nonprosecution deal with Epstein when Acosta was the U.S. attorney for Miami in 2007.Patrick McMullan | Getty Images Epstein was allowed out of the Palm Beach County lockup for up to 12 hours a day on work release, six days each week, during his 13-month jail stint there after pleading guilty to prostitution-related charges filed by state prosecutors in 2008.had Epstein being allowed to cut a nonprosecution deal with federal prosecutors in Florida in 2007 that let him off the hook for potentially much more serious federal charges related to sexual misconduct with underage girls.
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