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To: "Berman, Geoffrey (USANYS)" 
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Subject: Acosta 
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 17:34:55 +0000 
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For our next discussion: 
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epsteins-sick-story-played-out-for-years-in-plain-sight 
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. The plea deal put a hard stop to a separate federal 
investigation of alleged sex crimes with minors and trafficking. 
"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.) 
Chief Public Corruption Unit 
United States Attorney's Office for the 
Southern District of New York 
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