Last Friday, Labor Secretary Alex Acosta resigned on account of his decision, as a Miami prosecutor, to offer Jeffrey Epstein a sweetheart plea deal: 13 months in custody, including work release, after being charged with running an international sex trafficking operation. The deal was generally considered an outrageous move on Acosta’s part—in February a judge said it broke the law—seeing as it gave Epstein (and his co-conspirators) immunity, concealed the agreement from more than 30 victims, and let a sexual monster serve less than a year and a half in a county jail. (Epstein pleaded guilty to state prostitution charges and registered as a sex offender.) Oh, and it also might have allowed Epstein to basically carry on business as usual while serving his extra-light sentence. Per ABC News:
Also on Tuesday, according to the New York Post, Edwards said that “one of the questions I’ve received many, many times is what Jeffrey Epstein actually did on a daily basis. What I’m telling you is, what he did on a daily basis is engage in these types of sex acts with young adults and children,” saying, “Sex was his full-time job.” (During a Monday hearing, one of Epstein’s lawyer’s, Martin Weinberg, told a judge that his client “didn’t reengage in this activity” after pleading guilty to state prostitution charges in Florida. “It’s not like he’s an out-of-control rapist,” Weinberg added, bizarrely.)
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