{"id":125057,"date":"2019-07-12T10:19:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T14:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=125057"},"modified":"2019-07-12T10:19:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T14:19:54","slug":"acosta-forced-to-resign-in-disgrace-why-and-how-was-he-ever-appointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=125057","title":{"rendered":"Acosta Forced to Resign in Disgrace&#8212;Why and how was he ever appointed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Acosta Resigns Over 2008 Epstein Plea Deal Controversy<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta announced his resignation on Friday after receiving harsh criticism for his role in brokering a 2008 plea deal with registered sex-offender and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. He will be replaced by Deputy Labor Secretary Patrick Pizzella.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/acosta%20trump.jpg?itok=AWui1OhW\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH: Trump announces Labor Secretary Alex Acosta\u2019s resignation amid criticism of his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PBmUT5rgSD\">https:\/\/t.co\/PBmUT5rgSD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bloomberg Originals (@bbgoriginals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbgoriginals\/status\/1149682739777589248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>I do not think it is right or fair\u00a0to have me as the focus<\/strong>,&#8221; said Acosta, standing next to President Trump at a morning press conference,\u00a0adding &#8220;I thought the right thing was to step aside.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump comes to departure with Labor Sec Alex Acosta, who announces he is resigning. Acosta says it was his idea. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mpq79f5J4A\">pic.twitter.com\/Mpq79f5J4A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Amber Duke (@ambermarieduke) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ambermarieduke\/status\/1149675267260133376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>President Trump said that Acosta was a &#8220;great labor secretary not a good one,&#8221; adding that he did a &#8220;very good job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside id=\"in-content-dianomi\" class=\"placement placement-embedded placement-dianomi\"><\/aside>\n<p>Acosta held a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_I1SRNYDwbw\">press conference<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday in which he suggested Epstein&#8217;s deal was the fault of Florida state prosecutors, or possibly the judge, or anyone else but him &#8211; and that Epstein would have walked free without the deal he was behind.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI wanted to help them,\u201d Mr. Acosta, who was the top federal prosecutor in Miami at the time, said of the victims during an hourlong session with reporters at the Labor Department. \u201cThat is why we intervened. And that\u2019s what the prosecutors of my office did \u2014 they insisted that he go to jail and put the world on notice that he was and is a sexual predator.\u201d &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/10\/us\/politics\/acosta-epstein.html\">NYT<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">EARLIER: Acosta defended his handling of Epstein\u2019s plea deal when he was the top federal prosecutor in southern Florida over a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>NOW: He&#39;s resigning <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9SKHFUT2yJ\">pic.twitter.com\/9SKHFUT2yJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bloomberg Originals (@bbgoriginals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbgoriginals\/status\/1149675830567505920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Not true\u00a0<\/strong>said former Palm Beach County state&#8217;s attorney, Barry Krischer &#8211; who said that Acosta abandoned a 53-page federal indictment &#8220;<strong>after secret negotiations between Mr. Epstein&#8217;s lawyers and Mr. Acosta,<\/strong>&#8221; according to\u00a0<em>The Hill<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">READ IT HERE: Former Palm Beach (FL) State Atty Barry Krischer challenges Acosta\u2019s characterization of why Acosta pursued a plea deal for Epstein: \u201cI can emphatically state that Mr. Acosta\u2019s recollection of this matter is completely wrong.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0Drs4vetTO\">pic.twitter.com\/0Drs4vetTO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeterAlexander\/status\/1149082300203917312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While Epstein has allegedly victimized up to\u00a0<strong>60 girls, many of them underage<\/strong>\u00a0according to the\u00a0<em>Miami Herald<\/em>, his sweetheart deal for just\u00a0<em>two counts of solocitation of prostitution\u00a0<\/em>(one with a minor), and\u00a0included\u00a0<strong>working from his West Palm Beach office for as much as 12 hours a day\u00a0<\/strong>for up to\u00a0<strong>six days a week.\u00a0<\/strong>He was also required to register as a sex offender, and was given immunity from federal prosecution.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WH officials initially viewed Alex Acosta\u2019s performance earlier this week as stabilizing. But last night a senior WH official told us Sec. Acosta was \u201cnot out of the woods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jim Acosta (@Acosta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acosta\/status\/1149676301177036801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-07-12\/acosta-resigns-over-2008-epstein-plea-deal-controversy\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-07-12\/acosta-resigns-over-2008-epstein-plea-deal-controversy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acosta Resigns Over 2008 Epstein Plea Deal Controversy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}