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He had his schedule where, you know, two, three of them would come every single day. so it wouldn't be surprising that -- since he had the same organization in place that that same kind of operation existed in new york as well as in florida. >> and how -- how publicly known -- i mean, among the people who knew jeffrey epstein, was this something that was known? this was something that he was doing or was this a secret operation, where as you said the employees knew, but outside that group of people, no one knew? >> well, there were people outside the operation that probably knew that what he w...

Focus on epstein's previous arrest in florida for sex crimes involving minors and the non-prosecution agreement he made with the feds back in '08. epstein's lawyers worked out a deal with the thenacosta. he would be the now labor secretary in the trump government. the deal acosta agreed to allow epstein to plead guilty to less serious state charges, required that he register as a sex offender, serve about a year in jail most of it in a work release program with liberal rules of attendance at his nomination hearing in 2017, acosta defended the deal. >> there is an allegation that i just read th...

The cabinet. hash tag, acosta resign. the white house has not said anything about this, and the more that comes to light, the more baffling it is what alexander acosta did. why wouldn't he tell the victims that he was making this sweetheart deal with jeffrey epstein by which jeffrey epstein, he could have served life in prison. he ended up getting 13 months, but he was able to go to his office and work for six days a week. >> yeah. the go to the work release program from jail is a new one for me, and i think a new one for most americans. that's a jeffrey epstein special. what's happening withi...

This case is now being charged by the public corruption unit, not the sex trafficking unit. what do you make of that ? >> i make of the fact that he got out of that -- mr. epstein -- the 2008 charges. unusual. you mentioned -- i will get back to your question. but you mentioned that he served the state prison sentence. he was on work release. you go from at that point a prosecution that could end you in life and you are on this work release program where you go to jail. >> that was after dozens of allegations. >> absolutely. that's troubling. to the issue of public corruption, i think -- the r...

Decade. cnn's erica hill is in new york. erica, epstein got an unusually lenient plea deal in florida in 2008 serving just over a year in jail with a generous work release. now he's facing decades in prison and some of his friends and associates should also be worried. >> absolutely. let's walk through that first deal that you just mentioned, that plea deal that was referred to as both a sweetheart deal and pretty much the best deal that someone in his case could get. this was in 2008. keep in mind the u.s. attorney for the southern district of florida who was overseeing this deal at the time,...