In 2007, then Miami U.S. Lawyer Alex Acosta, who would later be appointed by then President Donald Trump to his Cupboard as Labor Secretary, made a non-prosecution settlement with Jeffrey Epstein that barred even his victims from studying about it, a proven fact that was highlighted within the Epstein file dump from Wednesday night.
Then as Labor Secretary beneath Donald Trump, Alex Acosta tried to slash funding for intercourse trafficking victims by 79%. This raises quite a lot of questions on why he was put in that place by Trump after he gave Epstein the lover deal that shut down federal prosecutions into his sexual abuse and trafficking scheme that concerned not less than 36 underage ladies and silenced his victims.
2007: Alex Acosta, later to be Donald Trump’s Labor secretary, made a non-prosecution settlement with Epstein that barred even his victims from studying about it. pic.twitter.com/xhn2qAWChG
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Years later, whereas he was Labor Secretary, this settlement was condemned as unlawful as a result of Acosta didn’t check with Epstein’s victims over it and in reality a confidentiality provision barred its disclosure to anybody, together with his victims.
In February of 2019, a judge ruled that federal prosecutors under Alex Acosta “broke the law when they concealed a plea agreement from more than 30 underage victims who had been sexually abused by wealthy New York hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein, a federal judge ruled Thursday.”
In April of 2019 throughout an Appropriations Committee Listening to, then Vice Chair of the Home Democratic Caucus Rep. Katherine Clark (MA) questioned Acosta about his fitness to oversee the DOL “based on his history of siding with the powerful over the victims of exploitation and his proposal to cut programs that are meant to protect workers and survivors.”
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“One out of seven runaways are likely child sex trafficking victims, and there are estimates that hundreds of thousands of adults and children are victims of sex and labor trafficking in the US. And yet, you proposed a budget cut of 79% to the International Labor Affairs Bureau (ILAB), a cut of $68 million to just $18.5 million. But this isn’t the first time you’ve ignored human trafficking, is it?”
In Acosta’s plans for the DOL 2020 funds, he proposed slashing funds for the Worldwide Labor Affairs Bureau (ILAB) from $68 million to $18.5 million, a reduction “so drastic that experts say it would effectively kill off many federal efforts to curb sex trafficking and put the lives of large numbers of children at risk.”
The ILAB is a member of the Interagency Process Drive to Monitor and Fight Trafficking in Individuals, the Division of Labor, accountable for combating exploitative baby labor, compelled labor, and human trafficking.
The ILAB’s mission assertion reads prefer it combats THE difficulty that supposedly galvanized Donald Trump’s supporters to his aspect (Pizzagate, and Q-Anon’s obsession with discovering pedophilia in every single place besides the place it really is): “ILAB’s mission is to strengthen global labor standards, enforce labor commitments among trading partners, promote racial and gender equity, and combat international child labor, forced labor, and human trafficking.”
In July of 2019, the deal Acosta gave Epstein came under “renewed scrutiny after Epstein was charged Monday with having allegedly operated a sex trafficking ring in which he allegedly sexually abused dozens of underage girls.”
Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) informed Jake Tapper on the time, “It was a sweetheart deal and in some ways, Jake, the thing that makes me the maddest is when Secretary Acosta let Epstein plead guilty to prostitution, these girls weren’t prostitutes. They were middle schoolers who were sex trafficking victims and allowing him to plead guilty to prostitution is like salt in the wound.”
Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) was not impressed with the Justice Division’s dealing with of Epstein case, after it concluded that Alex Acosta had proven “poor judgement.”
“Letting a well-connected billionaire get away with child rape and international sex trafficking isn’t ‘poor judgment’ — it is a disgusting failure. Americans ought to be enraged,” Sasse said.
Acosta ultimately resigned.
To date, whereas each former presidents Donald Trump and Invoice Clinton have been named, neither have been accused of wrongdoing.
Solely one among them is presently working for president, although, and he gave Epstein enabler Alex Acosta a place in his Cupboard with purview over baby intercourse trafficking victims, and Acosta then tried to slash that funds by 79%.
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