Former prosecutors trash Acosta’s excuses for Jeffrey Epstein sweetheart deal
A cadre of former federal prosecutors are outraged at the “sweetheart” legal deal that accused child molester Jeffrey Epstein scored from Labor Secretary Alex Acosta when he was a U.S. Attorney.
Had Acosta not gotten a lesser charge in his plea deal there would have been a significant sentence in federal prison. Instead, Epstein spent less than 10 hours a day 6 days a week in a county holding cell.
You can see the comments from federal prosecutors below:
Acosta's comments assume there was an arbitrary time point where they had to cut off the investigation. That's not true, if they lacked sufficient evidence they could have continued to investigate. That "new evidence" he's glad SDNY prosecutors found was available back then too.
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) July 10, 2019
Acosta's suggestion that his obligation to protect victims was somehow different 12 years ago, because of changing societal attitudes, than it would be today is ridiculous. The more he defends his conduct the worse he sounds. https://t.co/FtylKFASmj
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) July 10, 2019
Acosta summary: FL was going to give a bad plea & I was the hero who swept in & gave him a slightly less bad plea because my prosecutors were too scared to go to trial & times were different then & FL did this crazy work release thing I couldn’t possibly have seen coming. 😡
— Mimi Rocah (@Mimirocah1) July 10, 2019
I was a federal prosecutor 12 years ago. No one I worked with thought victim shaming was ok then @SecretaryAcosta.
— Mimi Rocah (@Mimirocah1) July 10, 2019
Barbara McQuade: "I am normally very reluctant to second guess any prosecutor who had to deal w/ complicated facts … but I found several areas of [Acosta's] statement today to be woefully inadequate, including this one where he portrays himself as the hero of the story." @MSNBC
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 10, 2019
Why is Acosta making public comments discussing the specifics of victim's communications with law enforcement while charges against Epstein are pending?
He can potentially use Acosta's statements against prosecutors in that case. https://t.co/q8Vq5TnyP6
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) July 10, 2019
Comments like this will be used by Epstein's defense team to argue that he has been prejudiced. https://t.co/oqx8Xkr8aY
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) July 10, 2019
Somebody at the presser please ask @SecretaryAcosta why he immunized the co-conspirators around Epstein.
— Elie Honig (@eliehonig) July 10, 2019
— Calls his non-prosecution of Epstein an "ultimatum." Tough talk for a (nearly) free walk.
— Elie Honig (@eliehonig) July 10, 2019
Epstein paying for the attorneys who represented his victims strikes me as NOT a good point for @SecretaryAcosta to keep citing as if it helps his cause.
— Elie Honig (@eliehonig) July 10, 2019
None of this jibberish from @SecretaryAcosta remotely addresses his failure to notify victims.
— Elie Honig (@eliehonig) July 10, 2019
— Blames societal norms of victim-blaming back in 2007. Bogus. Victim-blaming only works if the prosecutor buys into it. I tried a case based on 10 sex trafficking victims in 2007.
— Elie Honig (@eliehonig) July 10, 2019
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Man who believed ‘the Bible is for white people’ gets life in prison after setting black man on fire in gruesome murder
A white man from Tennessee has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of murdering a black man by setting him on fire while he slept.
The Daily News Journal reports that 53-year-old John Carothers has pleaded guilty to murdering Robert Miller, a housemate who lived with him at the Frazier Young Supportive Living, which is a home for people with intellectual disabilities.
According to prosecutors, Carothers in March 2018 doused Miller in lighter fluid while he was asleep in his bed and then lit him on fire. Miller would subsquently die from burn-related injuries at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.
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At a White House meeting with Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, Trump was asked if he was experiencing any blowback from the African-American community.
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