While Watching Rachel & Her Story About Epstein I can Only Wonder

[dlk]

How is it possible Alex Acosta still has his law license?

[tblue37]

1. Connections. He was a good little soldier. nt

[malaise]

2. Watching as well and hoping that Julie Brown

has 24 hour security

[RockRaven]

3. A lawyer on a podcast I listen to likes to say that the only thing which reliably gets you disbarred

is messing with a client's money (a la Avenatti, but also indiscretions much less severe than his).

Everything else? Spankings of various kinds, but rarely disbarment.

[elleng]

5. Probably correct,

and it's a state-by-state matter.

[Ilsa]

4. Im worried that victims and witnesses are scared to testify.

They don't want to be "epsteined."

[dlk]

6. I Think You're Right

[ancianita]

8. Good question. Apparently he used his appointment as US attorney for Southern Dist. of FL, to

successfully prosecute
-- the lobbyist Jack Abramoff,
-- the terrorism suspect José Padilla,
-- the founders of the Cali Cartel, and
-- Charles McArther Emmanuel, the son of Liberia's former leader.[10][19]

His intensity in procuring a deal for Epstein comes in that context. He's seen by many as teflon because of that body of legal work, though anyone can now see that he had "peaked" by the time of the Florida Epstein judgment.

Acosta's Epstein team took advantage of the substitute federal judge who wasn't as well read on the case as the judge who probably would not have allowed the "no prosecution" arguments that she allowed. Her judgment saved Epstein but wrecked the civil rights of unnamed victims.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Acosta

[dlk]

9. Apparently, Acosta Spent too Many Years Around the Worst Criminals

He absorbed his environment.

[ancianita]

10. And lost his perspective, as Epstein's defense attorney, for the legal standing of victims.