Private office. Acosta has defended the plea deal as appropriate under the circumstances, including this past april before the House Appropriations subcommittee. As i was saying the department of justice for the past 12 years has defended the actions of the office in this case. The end of the day mr. Epstein went to jail. Epstein was incarcerated. He registered as a sex offender. The world was put on notice that he was a sex offender, and the victims received restitution. 13 months in county jail, 12 hours a day work release. You consider that justice for the devastation of these girls . Overnight House Speaker nancy pelosi demanded acosta step down in the following tweet as u. S. Attorney he engaged in an unconscionable agreement with Jeffrey Epstein, kept secret from courageous young victims preventing them from seeking justice. This was known by President Trump when he appointed him to the cabinet. Acostaresign. And this morning a new oped by the miami herald is also calling on acos
political office later in their lives and thinking about lining up money and lining up influence. when they re in a role as a prosecutor or in any kind of public service role, they re trading off a present favor for a future debt. to that point, corinne, i want to share what michelle golderg wrote in her op-ed for the new york times, she writes powerful elites abled, financier accused of trafficking young girls. zapder oversaw the nonprosecution agreement in 2008 and she adds the manhattan district attorney s office under democrat cy vance asked a judge to downgrade epstein s sex offender status from level three, the most serious, to level one, the least. what do you make of that? you know, what rings at me when i hear that and i look at this case as a whole or situation as a whole is how broken the justice system is. and now inequalities of this.