if you make it into this crowd, how easy it is to just sort of keep it moving even if you catch trouble. and mimi rocah coming right off that point, this speaks sadly to your occupation. this is washington post. mark fisher. epstein s influential allies have included a dream team of defense lawyers including alan dershowitz, former clinton special counsel kenneth starr, leading white-collar defense attorneys lefcourt, roy block, jay lefkowitz. underscoring people s belief, already hardened, that you can indeed buy your way out of trouble in this country. and unfortunately we re still seeing that today. this isn t a problem of the past. this is a problem of the present, of two systems of justice. and it s interesting because acosta in 2011 wrote sort of a statement i believe to the daily beast where he talked about it and used the word assault by the defense team, epstein s defense team, on the prosecutors and it
each other. if you make it into this crowd, how easy it is to just sort of keep it moving even if you catch trouble. and mimi rocah coming right off that point, this speaks sadly to your occupation. this is washington post. mark fisher. epstein s xlungsinfluential al have included a dream team of defense lawyers including alan dershowitz, former clinton special counsel kenneth starr, leading white-collar defense attorneys lefcourt, roy block, jay lefkowitz. underscoring people s belief, already hardened, that you can indeed buy your way out of trouble in this country. and unfortunately we re still seeing that today. this isn t a problem of the past. this is a problem of the present, of two systems of justice. and it s interesting because acosta in 2011 wrote sort of a statement i believe to the daily beast where he talked about it and used the word assault by the defense team, epstein s defense team, on the prosecutors and it was so hard to fend them off.
because you posted something on twitter that caught my eye this morning. you said the available evidence makes it clear that secretary acosta should be investigated to criminally violate the criminal rights act. unpack that for us. jeff, let s briefly walk through this together. so the crime victim rights act also referred to as the victim s bill of rights is in the federal code. it s 18-usc-1871. it says the victims, quote, have a right to be informed in a timely manner of any plea bargain or deferred prosecution agreement. that would be the non-prosecution agreement in this case. now, the miami herald doing some great reporting got some email traffic between then-u.s. attorney acosta and epstein s legal team, namely jay lefkowitz. here s what the email reads.
incredible letter that s written by jay lefkowitz, one of epstein s attorneys, saying thank you, u.s. attorney acosta for agreeing to keep this under wraps and not notifying the victims. that letter might well have said thank you, u.s. attorney acosta for violating the law, because that s what a federal judge found that they did. and it again goes to some of the way he is recasting it today oh, for or that reason. you can believe it or not. your point some of the evidence shows how much it was done at the behest of this convicted sex offender billionaire. glen kirschner, thank you of the your reporting and your analysis. thank you, ari. another update to a story we ve reported on a lot here. a federal appeals court has just thrown out, tossed a lawsuit alleging that president trump was illegally profiting off the presidency. this came from maryland and d.c. attorneys general. it was all about something you may have heard of, this constitutional emoluments clause, the idea he was
this book is about an hour and 15 minutes. did after nine welcome to the hudson institution new york book forum to celebrate the publication of escape from north korea: the untold story of asia s underground railroad. by senior fellow, melanie kirkpatrick. i am ken weinstein, president and ceo of hudson institute and i also like to welcome our audience watching at home on booktv and i also want to especially thank our friends at c-span for covering today s event. there are a couple of guests present today whom i would like to acknowledge. the council general of south korea in new york, ambassador song at who is here. [applause] and i d also like to knowledge the president said the japanese deputy counsel general in new york. [applause] in addition it also like to note the presence of several hudson institute trustees, vice chair and jack david who is a special interest in this book as he was the first person to read it and is married to the author. and we are grateful for