The Justice Department has concluded former U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta exercised “poor judgement” when he allowed Jeffrey Epstein to serve only one year of jail time despite evidence of underage sex trafficking, according to an outraged senator…
Details of the review were not immediately available, but Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse said it concluded Acosta exercised “poor judgment.”
“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, the Republican Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Oversight Subcommittee, said in a release. “Jeffrey Epstein should be rotting behind bars today, but the Justice Department failed Epstein’s victims at every turn. The DOJ’s crooked deal with Epstein effectively shut down investigations into his child sex trafficking ring and protected his co-conspirators in other states. Justice has not been served.”
