{"id":12876,"date":"2019-07-15T11:28:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T15:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=12876"},"modified":"2019-07-15T11:29:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T15:29:01","slug":"acostas-sweetheart-deal-likely-to-foreclose-epsteins-sdny-prosecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/acostas-sweetheart-deal-likely-to-foreclose-epsteins-sdny-prosecution\/","title":{"rendered":"Acosta\u2019s Sweetheart Deal Likely to Foreclose Epstein\u2019s SDNY Prosecution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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NATIONAL REVIEW<\/strong>, by ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — July 13, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Double-jeopardy rules almost certainly prohibit settling a federal case and then prosecuting it again <\/em>in federal court<\/em><\/strong>. <\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Alex Acosta did a bad job on the Jeffrey Epstein case. This column was nearly finished when news broke Friday that he would resign as labor secretary. I was going to argue that his lapses did not justify joining the nakedly political mau-mauing by Democrats who have no interest in exploring the behavior of Democrats who are neck-deep in a monstrous pedophile\u2019s activities. My friend <\/em>Jennifer Braceras has ably addressed that point<\/em><\/a> in a Washington Examiner column. I was also going to add that I\u2019d shed no tears if President Trump forced Acosta out \u2014 easy for me to say, since I think (a) he should never have been nominated in the first place, and (b) his commitment to Trump\u2019s deregulation agenda has never been sufficiently ardent. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the circumstances, I\u2019ll spare you a few hundred words of critique on Acosta\u2019s indecorous performance. Instead, to cut to the chase, I do not believe we can yet total up the wages of the sweetheart deal he cut for Epstein while he was U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida (SD-Florida). The commentariat is glibly assuming the courts will give the feds a second bite at the apple by allowing the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) to prosecute the charges that Acosta forfeited. I don\u2019t think so. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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