Judge Pushes Back Deadline for Billionaire Pedophile Epstein Victims’ Case
By Breitbart. A federal judge has pushed back a deadline in a case against Jeffrey Epstein, a wealthy Florida financier convicted of prostitution charges who now may face new litigation from women who claim to have been a part of a sex trafficking operation of underage girls in the early 2000s.
U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra allowed the extension on Thursday, the Association Press (AP) reported, and the report included Labor Secretary Alex Acosta’s connection to the case. . .
After President Donald Trump nominated Acosta, he said that the agreement was appropriate to make sure Epstein was convicted and spent some time behind bars. The deal also required Epstein, 66, to register as a sex offender.
“At the end of the day, based on the evidence, professionals within a prosecutor’s office decided that a plea that guarantees someone goes to jail, that guarantees he register generally [as a sexual predator] and guarantees other outcomes, is a good thing,” Acosta said at his 2017 Senate confirmation hearing. . .
The Herald, along with filmmaker Mike Cernovich, and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz — who was on Epstein’s defense team — have asked for the sealed documents in the case to be released to allow the truth about Epstein’s misdeeds, efforts to help him, and the nature of the abuse his victims suffered become public knowledge. (Read more from “Judge Pushes Back Deadline for Billionaire Pedophile Epstein Victims’ Case” HERE)
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Fresh court battle could expose more details in Acosta’s controversial Epstein plea deal
By Politico. A federal appeals court panel signaled Wednesday that it is strongly inclined to set in motion a process likely to expose more sordid details in the politically charged scandal surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy financier and philanthropist whose relatively cushy plea deal on underage-sex charges a decade ago has become a political liability for Labor Secretary Alex Acosta.
Sparks flew during arguments before the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan as a lawyer for Virginia Roberts Giuffre, an Epstein accuser, repeatedly reiterated his client’s claim leveled several years ago that the Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz not only defended Epstein but also had sex with some of the women Epstein victimized.
Giuffre’s attorney Paul Cassell, a former federal judge, told the three-judge panel that his client favored a “broad unsealing” of the records in a suit that Giuffre brought against Ghislaine Maxwell, an Epstein friend accused of helping procure girls for Epstein and others to engage in sexual activity.
“It will demonstrate Epstein and Maxwell sexually trafficked her to Epstein’s friends, including Alan Dershowitz,” Cassell told the court. “She wants all the documents unsealed substantively.” (Read more from “Fresh court battle could expose more details in Acosta’s controversial Epstein plea deal” HERE)
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