NOTE: This article concerns the reporting of Vicky Ward. I'm not
automatically assuming her key point is factual, especially since it
relies on an unnamed source, who is telling her about a private meeting
which the source apparently did not attend. If, however,
we assume the key point is accurate...
In my previous piece on Epstein, I cited two articles outside the
mainstream, which make a case for Epstein acting as an agent for
intelligence services---Mossad/CIA. Obviously, his work would have
involved gathering blackmail evidence on powerful men, who
had sex with his underage girls. The value of this evidence, to
Epstein's handlers, would be enormous as a means of controlling those
men...
I realize many people aren't satisfied unless they see something in
print from a more mainstream source. So let's try the Daily Beast
(7/9/19) and writer Vicky Ward, who has had an extensive career as a
reporter and editor (Vanity Fair, NY Post, HuffPost,
etc.)
In her Daily Beast article, "Jeffrey Epstein's Sick Story Played Out for Years in Plain Sight,"
Ward attempts to shed light on a moment in time when a strange twist
occurred in the Epstein saga. It involved Alexander Acosta.
Alexander Acosta served as Trump's Labor Secretary from April 28, 2017,
to July 19, 2019, when he resigned. In his former job, as US Attorney
for the Southern District of Florida, Acosta made the shocking 2007-2008
sweetheart plea deal with Epstein, canceling
any effort to convict him for sex trafficking of minors, and reducing
the charge to solicitation of a 14-year-old girl. Epstein pled guilty
and received a mild slap on the wrist.
Vicky Ward writes: "Epstein's name, I was told, had been raised by the
Trump transition team when Alexander Acosta, the former U.S. attorney in
Miami who'd infamously cut Epstein a non-prosecution plea deal back in
2007, was being interviewed for the job of
labor secretary..."
"'Is the Epstein case going to cause a problem [for confirmation
hearings]?' Acosta had been asked. Acosta had explained, breezily,
apparently, that back in the day he'd had just one meeting on the
Epstein case. He'd cut the non-prosecution deal with one of
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,' he told his interviewers in the
Trump transition, who evidently thought that was a sufficient
answer and went ahead and hired Acosta. (The Labor Department had no
comment when asked about this.)"
If all this is true, the word came down the line: Epstein had protection
coming from intelligence agency players; and he, Acosta, dutifully
knuckled under and made the phony plea deal with Epstein. In a
blockbuster federal case for widespread sex trafficking.
A case that was receiving wall to wall press coverage. But none of
that mattered to Acosta, the hell with blowback, contrasted against the
intelligence agency clout shielding Jeffrey Epstein.
If Vicky Ward's source on this is correct, it's quite possible it wasn't
just Acosta who was cowed and played ball with the higher power. The
Trump transition team, who blithely accepted Acosta's astonishing
comment, also could have been following the same
marching orders. The Trump team purposely chose Acosta for his new
shiny job, as Labor Secretary, because they were told to reward him for
his "outstanding work" in the Epstein case.
The transition team could have easily made a list of 20 people who could
fill the role of Labor Secretary. But they picked out the man who gave
astounding cover to Epstein.
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