While he was the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Alexander Acosta oversaw the prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein is a child molester, a sex trafficker and a blackmailer. The Department of Justice had a 53 page indictment prepared that could have put him in jail for life. Instead Epstein served 13 months in the Palm Beach jail where he was allow to spend 12 hours a day six days a week on “work release” where he could continue his sexual depredations. His young victims were labeled prostitutes and were lied to about the disposition of the case.
Julie K. Brown of the Miami Herald reported that Acosta “not only broke the law . . . he conspired with Epstein and his lawyers to circumvent public scrutiny and deceive his victims in violation of the Crime Victims’ Rights Act.” This was the conclusion of Judge Kenneth A. Marra of the US District Court for the Southern district of Florida. Marra stated, “While the government spent untold hours negotiating the terms and implications of the (agreement) with Epstein’s attorneys, scant information was shared with victims. Instead, the victims were told to be ‘patient’ while the investigation proceeded.”
The prosecutors were actually on Epstein’s side. Acosta’s lead federal prosecutor, A. Marie Villafaña, suggested how to minimize press coverage. She wrote one of Epstein’s lawyers, “On an ‘avoid the press’ note ... I can file the charge in district court in Miami which will hopefully cut the press coverage significantly. Do you want to check that out?’’
Much of the criticism Acosta faced stems from an October 2007 West Palm Beach meeting he had with Epstein’s attorney Jay Lefkowitz. Here an “extraordinary plea agreement” was produced that shut down the FBI investigation and gave immunity to Epstein and four of his alleged co-conspirators. Acosta denies that this meeting resulted in an agreement, however, Lefkowitz wrote him, “Thank you for the commitment you made to me during our Oct. 12 meeting. You ... assured me that your office would not ... contact any of the identified individuals, potential witnesses or potential civil claimants and the respective counsel in this matter.’’
The definition of conspire is “to agree together, especially secretly, to do something wrong, evil, or illegal.”
Acosta had several explanations for his failure to prosecute Epstein on federal charges. In 2017 Acosta claimed Epstein’s punishment, “At the end of the day . . . is a good thing.” He had made the best deal possible. At one point he was told “leave it alone” because Epstein was involved with intelligence. Acosta also claimed there was “… a year-long assault on the prosecution and the prosecutors. I use the word assault intentionally, as the defense in this case was more aggressive than any which I, or the prosecutors in my office, and previously encountered. Defense counsel investigated individual prosecutors and their families, looking for personal peccadilloes that may provide a basis for disqualification.”
There is no mention of witness tampering or obstruction of justice. Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, who is conducting the present prosecution, has not mentioned attempts to influence his decisions. Undoubtedly pressure has been applied. It is not just Epstein, with his millions, who has an interest in keeping matter contained. The entire Deep State elite wants to shut this down. Epstein’s activities were no secret in elite circles. Like the BBC’s Jimmy Savile the behavior was excused because it was “Jimmy just being Jimmy.” Likewise Roman Polanski drugging and assault on a 13-year-old was not rape-rape according to Whoopi Goldberg. Donald Trump was aware of Epstein’s behavior and he banned from Mar-a-Lago. After his conviction he was still palling around with people like Katie Couric, Chelsea Handler and George Stephanopoulos.
How then is it possible to say anything in defense of Alexander Acosta? Alexander Acosta was a member in good standing of the Deep State Nomenklatura. He was informed by higher-ups that Epstein had to receive only token punishment. Reports indicate that Epstein’s lawyer Ken Starr went over Acosta’s head to appeal to the Justice Department. Robert Mueller was the FBI Director at the time and may have been involved with Epstein’s “intelligence” activities. If Acosta is quietly falling on his sword it reveals a certain nobility. On the other hand he may feel that if he talks he will suddenly suffer from a fatal disease.
Investigative journalist Nick Bryant told Vanity Fair, “If Epstein talks, there’s gonna be a lot of powerful people who could go down.” The Deep State will not permit this. They may allow a few token sacrifices but the real powers will escape. There power resides in the “power of the Purse.” They distribute trillions of dollars. Yet, not one of the 535 members of Congress has been mentioned in this scandal. If Epstein was not collecting video tapes on this group he was totally incompetent. I think he was smarter than that.
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