From the moment federal prosecutors were handed the Jeffrey Epstein case, they didn’t trust Palm Beach County State Attorney Barry Krischer.
But even though federal prosecutors believed Krischer had “intentionally torpedoed” the case, they took the rare and misguided step of putting him in the driver’s seat.
Instead of vigorously pursuing the politically connected financier on charges that he sexually assaulted dozens of teens at his Palm Beach mansion, Krischer joined hands with Epstein’s defense team and undermined federal prosecutors’ efforts.
The conclusions, detailed in a 300-page report of an investigation by the U.S. Justice Department, paint a damning picture of both Krischer’s duplicity and federal prosecutors’ naivete.
series involving a name by the name of bruce ryan hart who was an assistant prosecutor with acosta. he technically was not on the epstein case, but epstein was pressuring these prosecutors, and among the other tactics he used was to offer them a job. mr. rein hart, he s now a federal magistrate. he s denied he did anything wrong at all. it s very suspect that one day he s working for acosta and the next day he s working for epstein. he literally left his job at the prosecutor s office one day and opened his own firm that happened to be located right next to jeffrey epstein s lead attorney jack goldberger s office in palm beach. he claimed he didn t have any kochb denl information about epstein s case, but in the court files on this case, one of the
for our viewers who may have missed this, and anyone who missed this reporting should go back and reread all of it. i reread it all yesterday. this is from some of your reporting in the fall about acosta who was the last federal prosecutor to look at epstein s crimes and to ultimately enter into a non-prosecution agreement with him. you wrote this, akos thcosta wo explain he was unduly pressured by lawyers, jack goldberger, roy black, a former u.s. attorney, former white water special prosecutor, you basically detail that acosta s defense here is that he was out-lawyered, but how did epstein end up walking away with no jail time and an arrangement that left the victims in the dark. well, they did a pretty masterful job of keeping this whole scandal under wraps.