JUST IN: Former state attorney asserts that Sec. Acosta's recollection of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation during his news conference today is 'completely wrong.”
Acosta maintains the arrangement they worked out with Epstein helped pressure him into pleading guilty to state charges and having to register as a sex offender. The labor secretary defended his handling of the case on Tuesday as well, and praised federal prosecutors in New York for the new charges against Epstein.
Former Florida state attorney Barry Krischer, however, blasted Acosta in a statement on Wednesday following the secretary’s press conference, calling Acosta’s recollection “completely wrong.” “If Mr. Acosta was truly concerned with the State’s case and felt he had to rescue the matter, he would have moved forward with the 53-page indictment that his own office drafted. Instead, Mr. Acosta brokered a secret plea deal that resulted in a Non-Prosecution Agreement in violation of the Crime Victim’s Rights Act,” he said.
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