The Government Today Filed An Epstein Related Brief With The Supreme Court Today, Here’s The History
“the United States also agrees that it will not institute any criminal charges against any potential co-conspirators of Epstein.”
— 2007 plea agreement with Jeffrey Epstein that Trump’s eventual Secretary of Labor (Alexander Acosta) agreed to.
This comes up today because Epstein’s coconspirator, Ghislane Maxwell, is appealing her Epstein related sex trafficking conviction on grounds she is protected by the government’s pledge in Epstein’s plea agreement. She was indeed charged with conspiring with Epstein, as her indictment makes clear.
Her writ for certiorari (asking the Supreme Court to review this so far failed argument) is pending. Today the government filed its brief in opposition to the writ.
The government acknowledges that such a coconspirators clause is “highly unusual,” but Epstein got it from Trump later cabinet officer, Alexander Acosta.
That was not the only unusual aspect of Acosta’s sweetheart deal for Epstein. A federal judge in 2019 ruled that Acosta violated the Crime Victims Rights Act because he failed to provide notice to Epstein’s victims prior to plea agreement.
A future Trump cabinet appointee bent and broke all sorts of rules to give Jeffrey Epstein a sweetheart deal that bizarrely extended to his coconspirators. One of those coconspirators to this day seeks Supreme Court review to undo the only federal conviction for the most notorious sex trafficking ring in modern American history.
Last week, another Trump appointee killed any further investigation or public disclosures on the matter. Meanwhile, Trump blamed it all on Democrats.
