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12 Jul 2019, 9:11 am by Carrie Thompson
US Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta announced his resignation Friday amid renewed criticism concerning his handling of a sex crimes case against Wall Street billionaire Jeffrey Epstein during Acosta’s tenure as US Attorney in Miami. [read post]
12 Jul 2019, 7:35 am by Associated Press
Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta said Friday he is resigning following renewed scrutiny of his handling of a 2008 secret plea deal with wealthy financier Jeffrey Esptein, who is accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls. [read post]
12 Jul 2019, 6:51 am by Howard Bashman
Acosta Resigns as Labor Secretary over Epstein Plea Deal”: Annie Karni of The New York Times has this report. [read post]
12 Jul 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal 2020 Democrats Vow to Get Tough on Lobbyists The Hill – Alex Gangitano | Published: 7/7/2019 Democratic presidential hopefuls are taking aim at the lobbying world, vowing to enact sweeping reform proposals if they win election. [read post]
12 Jul 2019, 2:00 am by Christopher Tyner
  That plea agreement was approved by current Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta, who was the United States Attorney in the Southern District of Florida at the time. [read post]
11 Jul 2019, 5:50 pm by Howard Bashman
” Kevin Liptak, Pamela Brown, Jim Acosta, and Kaitlan Collins of CNN report that “Trump backs away from census citizenship question, orders agencies to hand over citizenship information to Commerce. [read post]
11 Jul 2019, 8:37 am by Tom Smith
Instead of patting themselves on the back and basking in the professional glow of Julie Brown’s hard work, or roaming the Capitol building asking random GOP congressmen if they think Acosta should resign, our national media might themselves start digging into the Epstein story, to which terms like “conspiracy” and “collusion” seem slightly more applicable than to anything that happened between the Trump campaign and Russia. [read post]
11 Jul 2019, 4:26 am by David Oscar Markus
  Anyone who worked with or against Acosta knows that he would not have done that. [read post]
10 Jul 2019, 12:49 pm by Tom Smith
NEW YORK — A federal appeals court panel signaled Wednesday that it is strongly inclined to set in motion a process likely to expose more sordid details in the politically charged scandal surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy financier and philanthropist whose relatively cushy plea deal on underage-sex charges a decade ago has become a political liability for Labor Secretary Alex Acosta. [read post]
10 Jul 2019, 4:38 am
"From "One thing is clear from the Jeffrey Epstein revelations: Acosta must step down" by Kathleen Parker (WaPo).I don't like the ugliness of "dereliction of duty" and "spine of a mollusk" and "whiner," but I do think Acosta should resign. [read post]
9 Jul 2019, 10:15 am by Howard Bashman
David Smiley of The Miami Herald reports that “Acosta says ‘new evidence’ should help to ‘more fully’ bring Epstein to justice. [read post]
9 Jul 2019, 4:55 am by SHG
The editorial barely bothers with the requisite “alleged,” and goes from there to assume every awful thing possible about Jeffrey Epstein, his unnamed conspirators and Alex Acosta. [read post]
8 Jul 2019, 4:44 pm by CAFE
In this clip from the CAFE Insider podcast, "Epstein & Con(Census)," co-hosts Preet Bharara and Anne Milgram discuss the unusual process leading up to billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's 2007 Non-Prosecution Agreement with Alex Acosta, then US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida and current Secretary of Labor. [read post]
8 Jul 2019, 12:39 pm by Tim Zubizarreta
The plea agreement was negotiated between Epstein’s attorney Alan Dershowitz and US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Alexander Acosta, who now serves as the Secretary of Labor for the Trump administration. [read post]
7 Jul 2019, 3:38 pm by Todd Presnell
LessKeep Reading this POP Post The post Jeffrey Epstein’s Privilege Loss Hurts Acosta’s AUSAs in Sex-Crimes-Deal Case appeared first on Presnell on Privileges. [read post]
7 Jul 2019, 3:38 pm by Todd Presnell
LessKeep Reading this POP Post The post Jeffrey Epstein’s Privilege Loss Hurts Acosta’s AUSAs in Sex-Crimes-Deal Case appeared first on Presnell on Privileges. [read post]