Epstein To News Today

>> and chuck, here is secretary acosta. lets listen in. >> good afternoon. let me start by reiterating that im pleased that the new york prosecution is going forward. they have brought these charges based on new evidence against jeffrey epstein who is now a registered sex offender and this is a very, very good thing. his acts are despicable. and new york prosecution offers an important opportunity to more fully bring epstein to justice. in 2008, a major newspaper described the epstein prosecutio...

Will new facts come out about the plea deal that was made in florida and then third, and you can to the power of that new accuser coming out and appearing on television. if you start to see a plot of these women, particularly women who were down in florida were numbered underrates there were never told that the steel had been made between then u.s. attorney acosta and epsteins lawyers, that could be very damaging as well. but job one for alex acosta if he wants to keep his job is to do well in t...

Did you believe that the evidence against epstein would have been insufficient to make a conviction beyond reasonable doubt? if so, why was a knot in the interest of justice to charge him with these crimes? >> again, i would refer you to the documents i provided. there is a big gulf between sufficient evidence to go to trial and sufficient evidence to be confident in the outcome of that trial. and so if i could come and i will give you a follow-up in a minute, if i could, when this case, and i p...

>> let me start by reiterating that i am pleased that the new york prosecution is going forward. they brought these charges based on new afferent evidence, on jeffrey epstein, who is now registered sex offender. this is a very good thing. his acts are despicable and the new york prosecution offers an opportunity to more fully bring epstein to justice. in 2008 commit a major newspaper described the epstein prosecution like this, a florida grand jury, that is grand jury convened by the district at...

Watching secretary acostas press availability. well play some of savannahs interview. but first the reporter who led the coverage, jewelry blulie brk you for joining me. i want to get your perspective and i just want to set up something that you tweeted yesterday after acosta took to twitter to defend himself, he said now that new evidence and additional testimony is available, new york prosecution offers an important opportunity to more fully bring him to justice. you replied except the record ...

Evidence sufficient to support the conviction. do you have any reason to doubt that it was in the interests of justice. did you believe, sir, that the evidence against epstein would have been sufficient to secure conviction beyond a reasonable daughter for federal offenses? and if so, why was it not in the pursuit of justice to charge him with these crimes? >> so again, i would prefer you to the documents ive provided. there is a big gulf between sufficient evidence to go to trial and sufficient...

Seek -- the decision is charged in the interest of justice. did you believe that the evidence against epstein -- and if so, why was it not justice to charge him with these crimes? >> again, i would refer you to the documents i provided. there is a big gulf between sufficient evidence to go to trial and sufficient evidence to be confident in the outcome of that trial. ill give you a follow-up in a moment. but if i could, when this case, in july of 2007 the career staff

No federal charges and his victims were not told about any of it. back in february, a federal judge violated the law by not disclosing the deal to those victims. now, the dojs office of responsibility is investigating if there was any misconduct on behalf of prosecutors. akogs ta is defending his actions this week, tweeting that his work was based on evidence available at the time. he went on to say that he is pleased that new york prosecutors are moving forward with this new evidence that he sa...

Good afternoon. let me start by reiterating that im pleased that the new york prosecution is going-forward. they brought these charges braced on the evidence of jeffrey epstein who is now a registered sex offender, and this is a very very good thing. his acts are despicable and this offers an important opportunity to more fully bring epstein to justice. in 2008, a major newspaper described the epstein prosecution. a florida grand jury that is a grand jury convened by the district attorney of pal...

To the president. and understanding that this is all about saving his job. and saving his reputation, quite frankly. the case hes going to make is the case he probably made to the president privately, and made in his tweets, which is that theres more evidence and im so thrilled that finally this man is brought to justice. as you just alluded to, in the original case in which you were talking about, there were 36 victims. 36, thats a lot. >> i dont know what new evidence hes talking about, and i ...