Stunning new report details Trump's labor secretary's role in plea deal for billionaire sex abuser

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• A report from the Miami Herald gives new insight into how federal prosecutors worked with billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's legal team to downplay some of his serious sex crimes.
• The documents obtained by the Herald show that a cushy plea deal was cut after then-US Attorney Alexander Acosta (now President Donald Trump's labor secretary) met with one of his lawyers, a former colleague.
• Though investigators had found dozens of underage victims, Epstein only pleaded guilty to two prostitution charges and spent just 13 months in a county jail.

A new Miami Herald report gives stunning details about how President Donald Trump's labor secretary went to great lengths to help downplay billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes when he was the US attorney for Southern Florida.

According to the report, local and federal investigators had gathered enough evidence to put Epstein away for life in 2007 when then-US Attorney Alexander Acosta met with one of Epstein's lawyers, Jay Lefkowitz.

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