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BumRushDaShow

(160,623 posts)
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 10:46 AM Friday

Former US attorney who negotiated Epstein's 2008 plea deal appearing before House Oversight committee

Source: CNN Politics

Updated Sep 19, 2025, 10:10 AM ET
PUBLISHED Sep 19, 2025, 6:00 AM ET


The former US Attorney from southern Florida who negotiated a controversial plea deal in 2008 with Jeffrey Epstein is appearing before the House Oversight Committee as the panel continues its probe into the late convicted sex offender.

Alexander Acosta, the former US Attorney in Miami, arrived on Capitol Hill Friday to meet voluntarily behind closed doors to speak with both Democrats and Republicans. “This Acosta deposition is a big deal, and I expect him to have a very challenging, probably six-hour deposition,” House Oversight Chair James Comer said ahead of the interview.

Acosta, who also served as former President Donald Trump’s secretary of the Department of Labor during his first term, resigned in 2019 amid renewed scrutiny over the plea deal he had negotiated with Epstein a decade before.

Epstein, a well-connected multi-millionaire, avoided a federal trial at the time of the plea deal and served just 13 months in prison for state prostitution charges over his involvement with underage girls. A Miami Herald investigation described the plea deal, negotiated by Acosta, as the “deal of a lifetime.”

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/19/politics/alex-acosta-house-oversight-epstein

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Former US attorney who negotiated Epstein's 2008 plea deal appearing before House Oversight committee (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Friday OP
Rip him to fucking shreds Aviation Pro Friday #1
He won't answer any questions dem4decades Friday #2
Plead the fifth and national security 2na fisherman Friday #3
Welcome to DU! KS Toronado Friday #5
They should grant him amnesty. rubbersole Friday #7
Great idea ! KS Toronado Friday #11
The Dick Cheney interrogation method is permissible Ponietz Friday #4
Time to spill some tea.😳 rubbersole Friday #6
They think they've gotten away with something, PatSeg Friday #8
Served as Trump's Secretary of Labor Johnny2X2X Friday #9
Here are our Democrats on the Oversight Committee. I hope Garcia & Frost & Crockett dig deep. Wish there were ancianita Friday #10

2na fisherman

(98 posts)
3. Plead the fifth and national security
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 11:33 AM
Friday

Acosta can weasel out of answering questions in many ways. There has been reporting that he was told to back off of Epstein case because Epstein was involved with national security. So if he really was running honey pot extortion ops for Mossad as has been rumored, let's get him to testify before those members of Congress having the proper security clearance to find out more about this. Or is national security just being used as a ruse to cover up a massive amount of criminal enterprises headed by Epstein and his wealthy associates who may now be in jeopardy? Follow the money.

PatSeg

(51,009 posts)
8. They think they've gotten away with something,
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 01:40 PM
Friday

BUT eventually one's past comes calling, often more than once. He knew what he was doing was wrong at the time; surely he must have known the past wouldn't be buried forever.

Johnny2X2X

(23,434 posts)
9. Served as Trump's Secretary of Labor
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 01:47 PM
Friday

Quid pro quo!

You see this stuff and it's just so obvious. Trump and Epstein were best friends, the prosecutor who gave him a sweetheart deal was rewarded with a cabinet position by Trump. Can you imagine if Acosta had been given a cabinet position by a Democratic President?

It's a smoking gun that will be ignored as usual.

It's a double standard. Can you imagine if Bill Clinton had been on video with Epstein at his personal home and club literally groping young women together? Bill Clinton would be in prison right now, the Right would have literally marched to his doorstep carrying torches.

ancianita

(41,961 posts)
10. Here are our Democrats on the Oversight Committee. I hope Garcia & Frost & Crockett dig deep. Wish there were
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 02:06 PM
Friday

a deposition transcript available. Could the press legally get one? idk

Robert Garcia (CA), ranking member
Yassamin Ansari (AZ),
Wesley Bell (MO),

Shontel Brown (OH),
Greg Casar (TX),
Jasmine Crockett (TX),

Maxwell Frost (FL),
Ro Khanna (CA),
Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL),

Summer Lee (PA),
Stephen F. Lynch (MA),
Dave Min (CA),

Kweisi Mfume (MD),
Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC),
Ayanna Pressley (MA),

Emily Randall (WA),
Lateefah Simon (CA),
Melanie Stansbury (NM),

Suhas Subramanyam (VA),
Rashida Tlaib (MI), and
James Walkinshaw (VA).

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