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Via: john-russell • 5 years ago • 11 comments

Acosta said: "We live in a very different world."

Sex trafficking was a crime in 2007. Rape was a crime in 2007. F***ing kids was a crime in 2007. What is #Acosta talking about?

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Sex trafficking was a crime in 2007. Rape was a crime in 2007. F***ing kids was a crime in 2007. What is # Acosta talking about?

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Q: Would you make this same agreement today?

A: With "knowledge and hindsight," Acosta said: "We live in a very different world."

11:59 AM - 10 Jul 2019

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1 seeder JohnRussell 5 years ago

Acosta suggested that what was a good deal at time was being looked at differently today, but also said that “facts are being overlooked.”
“Times have changed, and coverage of this case has certainly changed, ” Acosta said.

Acosta said that the deal he reached as Miami’s top federal prosecutor guaranteed that Epstein would do jail time on a state charge, be forced to register as a sex offender, and offered the financier’s victims a chance to obtain money damages.

“There was value to getting a guilty plea and having him register,” Acosta said. “The world needed to be on notice that he was a sexual predator.”

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1.1 Vic Eldred replied to JohnRussell @1 5 years ago

The facts that are being overlooked are these:

“Simply put, the Palm Beach state attorney’s office was ready to let Epstein walk free, no jail time,”

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2 seeder JohnRussell 5 years ago

Acosta seemed to be suggesting that prior to the "Me Too" movement it would have been pointless to go all out to prove this sort of sex crime because the victims would not be believed.

2007 was not 1907.

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3 Vic Eldred 5 years ago

The question is does that press conference save him?

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3.1 Snuffy replied to Vic Eldred @3 5 years ago

Isn't the DOJ now reviewing that decision? I'll leave it there until there is a public dissemination of the facts that we just don't have access to right now.

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3.1.1 Vic Eldred replied to Snuffy @3.1 5 years ago

Isn't the DOJ now reviewing that decision?

That they are.

I'll leave it there

Why? We have a monster sexual predator to discuss, yet we seem to be fixated on the deal Acosta arranged long ago. Have you thought about that?