White House officials are closely watching the coverage of Alex Acosta and his past involvement as a prosecutor in pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s plea deal in 2008. The admin is fully aware that negative publicity could harm the Labor secretary beyond repair
White House officials are closely watching the coverage of Labor Secretary Alex Acosta’s past involvement as a prosecutor in billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s plea deal in 2008, acutely aware that negative publicity could harm him beyond repair, according to four people familiar with the situation.
In February, after a judge ruled that Acosta and other federal prosecutors acted unlawfully by failing to keep Epstein's underage female victims informed about his plea deal, Trump The White House did not answer questions Monday about whether Trump retained that confidence in Acosta, who faces new demands for his resignation, or whether it followed through on a previously announced plan to investigate the allegations against him.
New unsealed documents in the New York case could show the extent to which Acosta was not forthcoming about Epstein’s crimes, according to a former administration official. In February, U.S. District Court Judge Kenneth Marra ruled that federal prosecutors violated the Crime Victims Rights Act by failing to keep Epstein's victims adequately informed about a previous plea deal in Florida.
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