Vaguely, they knew about of course the prostitution charges that he ended up pleading guilty to. the new information in the past year or so is the secret non-prosecution agreement which looks fishy. everyone is questioning why he got the great break. my guess is prosecutors in new york said hey, wait a minute, he has a home here, he may have been done the same thing here, we can look into that, and it sounds like he got a deal he shouldn t have gotten down there, so maybe we can wrap this up into a case. explain how it s possible that alexander acosta who was the prosecutor in that case, who s now a labor secretary would have agreed to what s being called a sweetheart deal like this where he was facing, i think, 45 years in prison or life in prison, and he ended up getting 13 months in a county jail with six days a week work release? which doesn t happen for sex offender in florida, by the way, to go to a cushy office 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, by the way, and also i can t explain, alisyn, why this sweetheart deal went down. i have never heard of the idea
Cnn has reached out to epstein s lawyer for a comment. epstein avoided similar charges in the past by securing a non-prosecution deal with the federal government in miami. back in november the my a.m. had i herald reported when labor secretary revealed when alexander acosta gave epstein 13 months in prison for dealing with two state prostitution charges. 36 under age victims. an apology from starbucks after six police officers were asked to leave one of the stores in tempe, arizona. they were enjoying some coffee on july 4th. they said there was a customer who did not feel safe in the customer s presence. they left starbucks, later released a statement calling the treatment of the officers
Federal sex trafficking crimes, he was allowed to plead guilty to prostitution charges. the paperwork for that was very always very vague. it wasn t clear exactly which victim that was attached to. there was no paperwork on it, and they didn t present it even to the sentencing judge. and now we know that this particular victim was 16 years old. and the reason why they picked a 16-year-old was, again, not only did they manipulate the criminal case against him, sabotaged the criminal case against him, but they also manipulated the charge that he had to plea to which involves a registered sex offense. by doing that, he doesn t have a strict monitoring and registration requirements. in terms of what happened here with these victims, i mean, it s striking that you have found that this woman who was the described victim essentially
To at the time that he was a suspect in a number of sex child sex trafficking crimes. instead of charging him with federal sex trafficking crimes, he was allowed to plead guilty to prostitution charges. the paperwork for that was very always very vague. it wasn t clear exactly which victim that was attached to. there was no paperwork on it, and they didn t present it even to the sentencing judge. and now we know that this particular victim was 16 years old. and the reason why they picked a 16-year-old was, again, not only did they manipulate the criminal case against him, sabotaged the criminal case against him, but they also manipulated the charge that he had to plea to which involves a registered sex offense. by doing that, he doesn t have a strict monitoring and registration requirements.
Kraft would have to admit guilt, and that s not all. here s abc s victor oquendo in florida. reporter: tonight, florida prosecutors offering to drop soliciting prostitution charges against billionaire new england patriots owner robert kraft. the deal offered to kraft and 24 other men would carry several requirements. kraft would have to acknowledge he would have been found guilty at trial of soliciting a prostitute. take an educational class on the dangers of prostitution. perform 100 hours of community service. pay $10,000 in fines. and submit to an std test. the question was, does the video contain mr. kraft inside receiving the alleged acts? the answer to that is yes. reporter: kraft and nearly 200 other men were arrested in a sweeping prostitution ring last month involving several spas in florida. police say the six-month sting operation found evidence the women were victimized by spa owners. authorities claim they found indications the women were living on the premises in unhealthy conditions, and that owners of the spa brought them
With maduro. this despite the fact that country where nine of ten people live in poverty, where 79% of hospitals struggle with clean water and where disease is rife. there are set to be 400 cases of malaria. it is getting worse and there is no medicine to treat it. the u.s. has requested the u.s. security council come together soon to talk about a solution to venezuela. surely that might be another avenue forward to deal with this crisis. remember, you had russia, china, iran, cuba standing alongside venezuela. it is likely some of them would use their veto power. at the moment, something has to give. molly: so many people caught in the cross fire. jonathan hall, thank you for the update. fox news alert. we are awaiting a news conference from florida, where officials are expected to detail the prostitution charges. actually, it s just getting started. let s listen.
Extraordinarily odd that r. kelly would ask for ids and keep recor records. is he holding a news conference? we lost ron. okay. we ll check back in with chicago a little later. robert kraft also in trouble. kraft facing prostitution charges in hollywood. he was out and about in this weekend. this is from tmz sports. it shows the new england owner leaving a pre-oscar party in beverly hills, one of many he atte attended. this is his first public appearance since charged with soliciting prosecution. the charges are part of a six-month investigation across florida into an alleged human trafficking ring involving massage parlors. kraft expected to be served with an arrest warrant later today. the president of the united states weighing in this morning on apparently something he saw or heard on the oscars, when director spike lee accepted his
53-page indictment and a life sentence in maximum security prison and, yet, ended up serving 13 months in a private wing of the palm beach county jail allowed to leave six days a week to go to work. how is that possible? well, that s where labor secretary alexander acosta comes in. in 2007 acosta was miami s top prosecutor and accepted a deal called a non-prosecution agreement, which allowed jeffrey epstein to plead guilty to prostitution charges in state court and get immunity from federal charges. the deal also protected epstein s accomplices meaning if ever well-known influential people were also having sex with minors they would not be prosecuted. and to top it all off, the alleged victims had no recourse. in fact, the victims attorneys say it s as if acosta allowed epstein to write up the agreement. but now a federal judge in florida says prosecutors led by acosta broke the law by signing the deal with epstein without notifying his sex abuse victims.
Now in the oval office. we re waiting for the video to feed. he weighs in on a lot of topics including prostitution charges against robert kraft. i m trace gallagher in nor shepard smith. the news starts right now. trace: police in jupiter, florida, naming robert kraft in a prostitution sting. they say they have video of him paying for a sex act in a strip mall massage parlor and video from hidden cameras inside the building. the question was does the video contain mr. kraft inside receiving the alleged act. the answer is yes. trace: cops say they reported customers and workers at the orchids of asia day spa and that they reported kraft visiting the place a month ago. his team, the patriots, won the super bowl this month. a spokesperson for kraft
Manager jeffrey epstein of sexual abuse. acosta, who was the u.s. attorney for the southern district of florida in 2007 declined to prosecute epstein, allowing him to plead guilty in state court to two prostitution charges and serve 13 months in county jail. thursday s ruling said acosta ruling violated the rights of the girls who were mostly 13 and 16 years old at the time, stripping them of their right to object and misleading them thinking federal prosecution is even after the go the deal received were new deeggs tension. and a series of vettive articles by the miami herald julie