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2019-07-14 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Acosta's Sweetheart Deal Likely to Foreclose Epstein's SDNY Prosecution
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Posted by JohnQC 2019-07-14 09:28|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 Nobody has any dirt on him after his plea deal? He's been squeaky clean since then?
Posted by Bobby 2019-07-14 10:40||   2019-07-14 10:40|| Front Page Top

#2 The double jeopardy off ramp allows a lot of virtue signaling and “if only we could “ comment but it avoids having his tape library see the light of day. The whole thing has a Hoover—Esau’s feel to it. We will wonder who had starring roles ....besides Billy Jeff
Posted by NoMoreBS 2019-07-14 10:56||   2019-07-14 10:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Hoover-esque
Posted by NoMoreBS 2019-07-14 10:58||   2019-07-14 10:58|| Front Page Top

#4 All the animals are equal...
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-07-14 11:02||   2019-07-14 11:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Double-jeopardy rules almost certainly prohibit settling a federal case and then prosecuting it again in federal court.

A recent fiat by SCOTUS says however, you can be prosecuted in a state court for the same act you were prosecuted by the feds. Then again, it seems SCOTUS has no use for the Constitution as written, so why not try.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-07-14 11:06||   2019-07-14 11:06|| Front Page Top

#6 But double-jeopardy can only apply if he's prosecuted for the same instances, right ? Epstein continued to pimp girls and produce photos and videos even after the deal with Acosta.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-14 11:21||   2019-07-14 11:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Epstein continued to pimp girls and produce photos and videos even after the deal with Acosta.
Posted by Dron66046

Different victims, different case? BTW, a pox on Acosta, followed closely by an DoJ/IRS investigation. If he is found guilty of breaking the law, bribery, aiding & abetting human trafficking etc., perhaps his decision on Epstein can be tossed.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-14 11:39||   2019-07-14 11:39|| Front Page Top

#8 How ironic that both sides in America's current cold civil war so frequently demonize Russia as a corrupt, evil, oligarchy with no rule of law.

Rule of law in America today is not so weak as in Russia, but it is weak nonetheless.

And rule of law is weak and fraying here precisely because our government, like Russia's government, has effectively become an oligarchy.

Epstein is a lowlife parasite who has wormed his way inside of the American oligarchy, and now the oligarchy is protecting this vile specimen. He's one of their own. They enabled him, and they now will ensure that his and their crimes go unpunished.
Posted by Lex 2019-07-14 11:45||   2019-07-14 11:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Ref #8: Epstein is a lowlife parasite who has wormed his way inside of the American oligarchy, and now the oligarchy is protecting this vile specimen.

Not unlike the Clinton's and Soetoro.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-14 11:52||   2019-07-14 11:52|| Front Page Top

#10 His money is dodgy. They should charge him with financial crimes: money laundering, securities law violations, tax evasion etc.

The fact that they have not done so tells you all you need to know about the source of this monster's influence and power.
Posted by Lex 2019-07-14 11:54||   2019-07-14 11:54|| Front Page Top

#11 Agreed that the Clintons and their fetid "Foundation" are at the center of this vile episode.

Show us the flight logs and the video footage. Billery are sure to feature prominently in both.
Posted by Lex 2019-07-14 11:56||   2019-07-14 11:56|| Front Page Top

#12 SDNY is part of the Clinton machine. That is why they are defusing this potential landmine and at 66 the plan is Ep will quietly fade away.
Posted by Varmint Splat1454 2019-07-14 12:15||   2019-07-14 12:15|| Front Page Top

#13 Alex Acosta did a bad job on the Jeffrey Epstein case.

At least that's what some might say. I think he did exactly as intended.

AFAIAC, if he did it again after the deal, the feds get to go at him again. And I think the case will need to be overseen by a truly impartial independent prosecutor (or ten) while it's happening, if there is such a thing.
Posted by gorb 2019-07-14 12:56||   2019-07-14 12:56|| Front Page Top

#14 I saw somewhere that Acosta said he was told to make the Epstein deal because he was some kind of intel asset.
Posted by Glenmore 2019-07-14 14:38||   2019-07-14 14:38|| Front Page Top

#15 I saw somewhere that Acosta said he was told to make the Epstein deal because he was some kind of intel asset.

J Edgar lives.
Posted by Victor Emmanuel Flusose6897 2019-07-14 15:03||   2019-07-14 15:03|| Front Page Top

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