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When Alexander Acosta was being considered for the position of secretary of labor, Donald Trump’s transition team was concerned about the fact that Acosta, as US attorney for southern Florida, made the secret non-prosecution plea deal back in 2008 with Epstein’s attorneys. Would it not cause problems at confirmation hearings?
Acosta reportedly explained that he’d cut the deal with Epstein’s attorneys because he had “been told” to back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade: “I was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone.”
The only source for this bewildering, explosive comment is Vicky Ward of the Daily Beast and formerly of Vanity Fair, who said she heard this from a former senior White House official. (Ward has said that she was prepared years ago to write about Epstein’s crimes, but that Vanity Fair declined to publish her report.)
Acosta could not be reached for comment last week about his alleged quote, and he was evasive when asked by a reporter in July whether he was aware at any point that Epstein was an intelligence asset.
“There has been reporting to that effect,” he said. “I would hesitate to take this reporting as fact.”
But there is intriguing evidence elsewhere. In a recent interview with NBC’s Dateline, former Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter described what happened as the police spent months quietly gathering and meticulously verifying evidence of what Epstein had been up to.
Tonight, @SavannahGuthrie sits down with former Palm Beach police Chief Michael Reiter, who oversaw the original Epstein investigation in South Florida in the early 2000s. All-new #Dateline at 10/9c. pic.twitter.com/1pqDhxhPdC
— Dateline NBC (@DatelineNBC) September 20, 2019
As the investigation wore on, Reiter told NBC, odd things began to happen. When detectives armed with a search warrant entered his home with a video camera, what they found made them suspect he had been tipped off.
“The place had been cleaned up,” Reiter said. A computer that contained all of the home’s surveillance footage was gone, “and all the wires were left hanging there.”
After six months of investigation, Reiter said, local police noticed a shift in attitude by the state prosecutors. They suddenly seemed dismissive of the case, telling Reiter that the witnesses were not credible. And they hindered their efforts by refusing to approve the use of critical investigative techniques.
https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/government-integrity/jeffrey-epstein-belonged-to-intelligence/