The Government Supervision and Reform Committee of the House of Representatives listed on Tuesday to the former Attorney General, former director of the FBI, former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as persons subject to citations for matters linked to Jeffrey Epstein.
However, it was not mentioned in the press release, Alex Acosta, who was the prosecutor of the United States for the Southern District of Florida, whose secret agreement of non -prosecution with Epstein created a spark that has become a controversy hell almost 20 years later.
Acosta was also the Secretary of Labor of President Donald Trump during his first term. Acosta left the role in 2019 after facing the scrutiny on Epstein’s guilt agreement.
The victims of Epstein’s sexual abuse are not happy that Acosta was not among those mentioned.
“How can any genuine investigation into the love of the federal government with Epstein (including the extraordinary subsidy of general immunity to all its appointed and unidentified conspirators) omit Alex Acosta?” Epstein’s victim lawyer Jack Scarola asked NBC News in a statement.
Brittany Henderson, another victim lawyer of Epstein, said: “Any person familiar with the history of the litigation related to Jeffrey Epstein knows about our struggle of a decade to enforce the law of the rights of the victims of Cryros that Alex Acosta is an important person to cite in any search for truth.”
The relatives of Virginia Giuffre, one of the survivors of Epstein’s abuse, who died for suicide this year, reiterated on Wednesday that the victims must be consulted and heard first.
ASKED by NBC News Why Acosta was not subpoenaed, A Committee Spokesperson Said By Text Message That “In A Voice Vote, Both Republicons and Democrats On The Federal Law Enforcement Subcommittee in July Approved A Motion Offered by Rep. Scott Perry By unanimous consent directing the Chairman to Issue Targeted Subpoenas to Bill and Hillary Clinton, James Comment, Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder, Merrick Garland, Robert Mueller, William Barr, Jeff Sessions and Alberto Gonzales.
The representative James Eat, R-Ky., He is the president of the Committee.
Public records show that González was the chief of Acosta at the time the agreement was reached. The records also show that it was Acosta who first made the decision to pursue what many legal analysts have called a “love agreement” to accept not to process Epstein.
An investigation by the Office of Professional Responsibility of Justice on the Non -Depression of Epstein, which led to a 348 -page report in November 2020, says it was Acosta who “made the fundamental decision of the federal investigation of the federal investigation of Epstein through a state statement and developed or developed or approved the terms of the initial offer to the defense that established the initial point for subsequent negotiations that led to the NP They brought to the NP of the NP, or the initial offer, according to the defense agreement, which did not lead to the NP of the NP of those who led to the NP of the NP of the NP of the terms ,, according to the play, according to the unplanned contact, which did not lead to the NP of the NP of the NP of those that led to the NP of the option, “. Summary of the report.
The report says that Acosta’s main lieutenants turned the federal prosecutor investigating the case, the FBI and the victims by making an offer for Epstein to submit to state positions.
The prosecutor at that time, Marie Villafana, were denied a meeting with Acosta for her immediate supervisors to explain her position and the strength of the case. He expressed his concerns and frustrations in an email to his supervisor at that time, Matt Menschel, why an accusation was brought and why decisions were being made on a guilt agreement even later, he says, the office of the United States prosecutor assured him that he would not dig the lawyers of Epstein, the report says.
Acosta did not respond immediately to a request for comments.
Peter Nicholas contributed.
