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12 Jul 2019, 3:55 pm by Cynthia Alkon
I am conflicted about Alexander Acosta’s resignation and the controversy surrounding his decade old plea deal with Jeffry Epstein. [read post]
12 Jul 2019, 1:50 pm by Kent Scheidegger
Rebecca Ballhaus reports for the WSJ: Alexander Acosta said he was resigning as labor secretary, amid criticism of a nonprosecution deal he struck with financier Jeffrey Epstein more than a decade ago as a U.S. attorney.Appearing Friday morning with President Trump on the South Lawn of the White House, Mr. [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, 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]
12 Jul 2019, 2:00 am by Tammy Binford, Contributing Editor
Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Alexander Acosta’s announcement that he is leaving his post amid controversy over his role in a lenient plea deal for multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein is likely to bring a change in tone to the agency. [read post]
9 Jul 2019, 1:42 pm
Even more egregious was the fact that Epstein was not only given personal immunity, his named and unnamed co-conspirators were also immunized for all of their unspecified crimes...That kind of get-out-of-jail-free card is unprecedented and a patent abuse of prosecutorial discretion.'"From "Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta Faces Calls to Resign Over Epstein Plea Deal" (NYT).I think Acosta should resign. [read post]
9 Jul 2019, 4:55 am by SHG
In 2008, federal prosecutors for the Southern District of Florida, at the time led by Alexander Acosta, who is now the nation’s secretary of labor, helped arrange a plea deal for Mr. [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]
8 Apr 2019, 5:18 am by Cody Bassham
ALEXANDER ACOSTA, Sec’y of Labor, Dep’t of Labor, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. [read post]
2 Apr 2019, 8:54 am by Seyfarth Shaw LLP
In June 2017, DOL Secretary Alexander Acosta withdrew the AI, which had by that time drawn the ire of many businesses for what was seen as the use of sub-regulatory action to drive an over-expansion of the joint employment standard. [read post]
19 Mar 2019, 7:24 am by Katherine Kelley
Content warning: This post contains content that may be upsetting for some readers. [read post]
7 Mar 2019, 5:52 am by David Markus
Attorney Alexander Acosta, broke the law when they concealed a plea agreement from more than 30 underage girls in Palm Beach who had been sexually abused by Epstein, a multimillionaire New York hedge fund manager. [read post]
27 Feb 2019, 1:34 pm by John Floyd
Attorney Alexander Acosta (a Republican appointed to his position in 2005 by President George W. [read post]
25 Feb 2019, 10:59 am by Kent Scheidegger
Attorney at the center of this debacle is now the Secretary of Labor, Alexander Acosta. [read post]
9 Dec 2018, 9:01 pm by Leslie C. Griffin
Instead of having their interests protected, the girls were never told of Epstein’s “deal of a lifetime” with then-prosecutor and now Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta. [read post]
6 Dec 2018, 7:41 am by Howard Bashman
Alexander Acosta is being unfairly criticized for his handling of Epstein’s plea deal”: David Oscar Markus, founder of “The SDFLA Blog,” has this essay online at The Miami Herald. [read post]