Alexander Acosta is out.
Friday, the Labor Secretary resigned his post in disgrace amid reports of his sweetheart deal given to serial pedophile Jeffrey Epstein more than 10 years ago when the hedgefund billionaire was convicted of sexual misconduct with underage girls in Florida. That sweetheart deal which was overseen by the then U.S. Attorney Acosta included just 13 months in a federal country club that included work release which essentially added up to Epstein having to just spend the night in jail while he went back and forth to his office.
Via NBC News:
Embattled Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta is resigning, President Donald Trump said Friday.
Acosta had faced mounting criticism in recent days for his role years ago in cutting a deal for sex offender Jeffrey Epstein more than a decade ago that critics have called too lenient.
Epstein, 66, was arrested over the weekend and charged in the Southern District of New York with sex trafficking dozens of girls as young as 14 in New York and Florida.
Aside from the slap on the wrist given to Esptein by Acosta, the now former Labor Secretary also didn’t notify the victims of Epstein back in 2008 just how light of a sentence he’d receive despite the seriousness of his crimes. That approach taken by Acosta was dubbed illegal by a Federal Judge back in February.
Acosta, who as Labor Secretary is in charge of preventing human trafficking in the United States had a chance to put a predator like Epstein away maybe for the rest of his life. Instead, he more than likely played politics with the situation and enabled Epstein to go and traffick young girls which are the charges he’s being brought up now in New York.
A sick irony defined.
UPDATE: In an unsurprising move Donald Trump stands behind a guy that enabled a sexual predator to continue to prey on young girls. In a makeshift presser, the POTUS said that Acosta’s decision to resign was that of the Labor Secretary’s and not his while praising the job he’s done and in some sense the sweetheart deal given to Epstein back in 2008.
