FBI PUBLIC AFFAIRS - DIRECTOR'S AM NEWS BRIEFING

FBI PUBLIC AFFAIRS - DIRECTOR'S AM NEWS BRIEFING FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2019 5:00 AM EST EFTA00160965 EFTA00160966 EFTA00160967 EFTA00160968 EFTA00160969 EFTA00160970 EFTA00160971 Judge: Acosta Broke Law By Hiding Epstein Plea Deal From Underage Girls He Trafficked. The Miami Herald (2/21, Brown, 794K) reports that U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra has ruled that 'federal prosecutors - among them, US Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta - broke federal law when they signed a plea agreement with" Jeffrey Epstein, "a wealthy, politically connected sex trafficker and concealed it from more than 30 of his underage victims: Marra "said that the evidence he reviewed showed that...Epstein had been operating an international sex operation in which he and others recruited underage girls - not only in Florida - but from overseas, in violation of federal law." The Herald says that "instead of prosecuting Epstein under federal sex trafficking laws, Acosta, then the US attorney in Miami