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(CD Op-Ed) — The arrest of financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on federal child sex trafficking charges elicited fresh demands for the resignation of Trump Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, who helped Epstein secure a “sweetheart plea deal” for previous allegations while serving as Miami’s top federal prosecutor over a decade ago.
Following news of Epstein’s arrest late Saturday, reporters, politicians, and other observers called on Acosta to immediately step down—bolstering demands that have mounted in recent months amid a legal challenge to Epstein’s deal filed by survivors.
In light of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking arrest, Labor Secretary Alex Acosta should resign IMMEDIATELY. He broke the law to protect a serial pedophile who preyed upon dozens of underage girls.
— Adam Best (@adamcbest) July 7, 2019
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.@realDonaldTrump Labor Secretary @SecretaryAcosta gave child molester Jeffrey Epstein a sweetheart deal when Acosta was an US Attorney. Now it turns out Epstein may have molested more individuals.
Why is Acosta still Labor Secretary? https://t.co/iP67KNOd4i
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) July 7, 2019
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Alex Acosta should resign https://t.co/wJgk9qqEDJ
— Greg Dworkin (@DemFromCT) July 7, 2019
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With the Epstein arrest, Labor @SecretaryAcosta is finally getting the attention he should have gotten before Senate Republicans confirmed him. Good! Ever better: let’s now pay attention to ALL the reasons he should have been rejected.#AcostaMustResign https://t.co/PlPXLXWFbB
— John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) July 7, 2019
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CNN opinion contributor Raul A. Reyes wrote Sunday that “Acosta’s actions are worthy of bipartisan outrage and should offend every American father and mother. Acosta betrayed the vulnerable to benefit the powerful. His deal for Epstein shows a disregard for child welfare, victims’ rights and Justice Department procedures. Ironically, as secretary of labor, Acosta is responsible for monitoring human trafficking.”
NOTE: As Secretary of Labor, Acosta now OVERSEES THE NATION'S HUMAN TRAFFICKING LAWS
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Past alleged victims of Epstein include a 15-year-old Mar-a-Lago employee. Past alleged co-conspirators include Trump ally Alan Dershowitz and Prince Andrew. The architect of Epstein’s past federal sweetheart deal is current Trump administration labor secretary Alex Acosta. https://t.co/a5Y9NcJWqL
— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) July 7, 2019
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Over the years, Epstein has been tied to various high-profile individuals, including retired Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz and the U.K.’s Prince Andrew as well as former President Bill Clinton and current President Donald Trump.
The Jeffrey Epstein case is a sign of a deep, severe moral sickness in this country. Everyone who shielded him (including Alex Acosta and Donald Trump) are just as culpable for his crimes, and the fact that they remain in positions of power is an absolute disgrace.
— Sen. Mike Gravel (@MikeGravel) July 7, 2019
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According to the Daily Beast, which first reported on the financier’s arrest late Saturday:
Epstein was arrested for allegedly sex trafficking dozens of minors in New York and Florida between 2002 and 2005, and will appear in court in New York on Monday, according to three law enforcement sources. Epstein, who owns a New York City mansion and an island in the Caribbean, was being held at the federal lockup in Manhattan ahead of his court date.
Saturday’s arrest by the FBI-NYPD Crimes Against Children Task Force comes about 12 years after the 66-year-old financier essentially got a slap on the wrist for allegedly molesting dozens of underage girls in Florida.
For more than a decade, Epstein’s alleged abuse of minors has been the subject of lawsuits brought by victims, investigations by local and federal authorities, and exposés in the press. But despite the attention cast on his alleged sex crimes, the hedge-funder has managed to avoid any meaningful jail time, let alone federal charges.
The new indictment—which, according to two sources, will be unsealed Monday in Manhattan federal court—will reportedly allege that Epstein sexually exploited dozens of underage girls in a now-familiar scheme: paying them cash for “massages” and then molesting or sexually abusing them in his Upper East Side mansion or his palatial residence in Palm Beach. Epstein will be charged with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors—which could put him away for a maximum of 45 years. The case is being handled by the Public Corruption Unit of the Southern District of New York, with assistance from the district’s human-trafficking officials and the FBI.
Sources told the Miami Herald that Epstein was arrested at New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport and “around 5:30 p.m. Saturday, about a dozen federal agents broke down the door to Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse to execute search warrants.” A source in New York told the Florida newspaper that Monday’s bail hearing “will be critical because if they grant him bail, he has enough money that he will disappear and they will never get him.”
In a series of stories from last November titled “Perversion of Justice,” Herald reporter Julie K. Brown detailed how Acosta, then U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, worked with Epstein’s attorneys to craft an agreement that was kept secret from Epstein’s victims.
BREAKING: With Jeffrey Epstein locked up, these are nervous times for his friends, enablershttps://t.co/wc8vNXex8o
— julie k. brown (@jkbjournalist) July 7, 2019
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Epstein “was accused of assembling a large, cult-like network of underage girls—with the help of young female recruiters—to coerce into having sex acts behind the walls of his opulent waterfront mansion as often as three times a day,” Brown reported in November. “Facing a 53-page federal indictment, Epstein could have ended up in federal prison for the rest of his life.”
Not only would Epstein serve just 13 months in the county jail, but the deal—called a non-prosecution agreement—essentially shut down an ongoing FBI probe into whether there were more victims and other powerful people who took part in Epstein’s sex crimes, according to a Miami Heraldexamination of thousands of emails, court documents and FBI records.
The pact required Epstein to plead guilty to two prostitution charges in state court. Epstein and four of his accomplices named in the agreement received immunity from all federal criminal charges. But even more unusual, the deal included wording that granted immunity to “any potential co-conspirators” who were also involved in Epstein’s crimes. These accomplices or participants were not identified in the agreement, leaving it open to interpretation whether it possibly referred to other influential people who were having sex with underage girls at Epstein’s various homes or on his plane.
As Common Dreams reported in December—amid previous calls for Acosta to resign, which were sparked by the Herald‘s series—National Organization for Women (NOW) president Toni Van Pelt said that “Epstein plays by the same rule book as Donald Trump, Les Moonves, Harvey Weinstein, Eric Schneiderman, and other powerful men who have been revealed as serial abusers of women.”
“Epstein’s scant 13-month stay in a county jail—where he was even allowed to spend twelve hours a day, six days a week, at his office,” Van Pelt said, “was made possible by a culture of powerful men, enabling each other, while dismissing, excusing, or demeaning the women and children they brutalize with physical and sexual violence.”
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(ZH) —
Update (1145ET): Less than 12 hours after seisomologist Lucy Jones warned of another large quake, a massive 7.1 quake just hit 17km NNE of Ridgecrest.
Prelim M7.1 Earthquake 35.767, -117.605 Jul-06 03:19 UTC, updates https://t.co/uVJBfBodUN
— USGS Big Quakes (@USGSBigQuakes) July 6, 2019
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This continues the swarm of aftershocks that hit all day… (Seismologists at Cal Tech said Friday afternoon that there had been around 1,400 aftershocks since Thursday’s 6.4-magnitude quake, with 17 of those with a magnitude of 4 or above.)
The quake hit at 2319ET less than 24 hours after the largest quake (6.4) in over 20 years struck the same region.
It was big enough to be felt on the East Coast…
Southern #California magnitude 7.1 #earthquake registered on the seismograph in Palisades NY, north of New York City — some 2,500 miles away.#EarthquakeLA #EarthquakeVegas pic.twitter.com/uQ0qe4DbFZ
— Ben Noll (@BenNollWeather) July 6, 2019
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The news and accompanying video started to surface on Twitter at around 11:30pm EST on Friday night. The Dodgers even played their baseball game through the quake:
They were playing through an earthquake. The players didn’t even feel it. IT WAS A 7.1
#EarthquakeLA pic.twitter.com/A4lo6rQE81
— Complex Sports (@ComplexSports) July 6, 2019
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One person on social media reported feeling dizzy and his dog threw up. Chandeliers and hanging plants swayed. Pools sloshed. Electrical wires rocked.
From my mom @mom2five1 in Ridgecrest California @ABC7 pic.twitter.com/iZSxoJsSXU
— JD (@jedent) July 6, 2019
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Earthquake action in Southern California. pic.twitter.com/UTdhiEYAZl
— Only one version of history, the winner's (@HerbalifeVerda) July 6, 2019
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Here in Palm Springs and just felt a massive #earthquake a few minutes ago. Woah. Check out the pool moving for a minute. #earthquakeLA #palmsprings #woah pic.twitter.com/WrervE7U4t
— Joey Wilson
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Here in Palm Springs and just felt a massive #earthquake a few minutes ago. Woah. Check out the pool moving for a minute. #earthquakeLA #palmsprings #woah pic.twitter.com/WrervE7U4t
— Joey Wilson
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BREAKING: Receiving first photos from a contact in #Ridgecrest from inside her house after massive quake. Says she’s cut. @FOXLA pic.twitter.com/Gx3rXbRhNO
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) July 6, 2019
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Even Northern California residents noted their pools making waves and Vegas residents felt the shake.
NBC LA reports gas leaks and fires have been reported.
Friday night, the power went out in Ridgecrest, a city of 27,600, around 100 miles north of Los Angeles, according to NBC reporters in the area.
The San Bernardino County Fire District tweeted that calls were coming in from northwestern communities and that people were reporting “homes shifted, foundation cracks, retaining walls down.”
We have word of wires down (never touch!) and *localized* power outages in several City of Los Angeles neighborhoods. Our citywide survey by @LAFD crews continues, but besides a handful of apparently small issues, NO major damage to infrastructure has been identified.
— LAFD (@LAFD) July 6, 2019
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The fire district reported one minor injury and said firefighters were treating the patient. “No unmet needs currently,” the fire department said.
7.1 Earthquake in Ridgecrest,CA felt in Las Vegas,NV #Earthquake #NBC #ABC #LasVegas pic.twitter.com/wkU49SkpDx
— Rhianna Rae (@rhiannabrooklyn) July 6, 2019
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As we detailed earlier, the strongest earthquake to hit southern California in nearly 2 decades has also resulted in an unusual number of aftershocks, seismologists are saying. The quake has already prompted one city to declare a state of emergency Thursday and affected residents from Las Vegas to Orange County, according to the Mercury News.
The quake registered a 6.4 on the Richter scale and was centered about 150 miles north of Los Angeles. An astounding 159 aftershocks of magnitude 2.5 or greater have been recorded already. This is a higher than normal, with the largest aftershocks registering at 4.6.
Seismologist Lucy Jones called it a “robust” series of aftershocks and says there’s a 50% chance of another large quake in the next week. She also said there is a 1 in 20 chance that a bigger earthquake will hit within the next few days.
She commented that earthquakes actually increase the risk of future quakes.
Jones said:
“It’s certain that this area is going to be shaking a lot today, and some of those aftershocks will probably exceed magnitude 5.”
“Plate tectonics hasn’t suddenly stopped; it is still pushing Los Angeles toward San Francisco at the same rate your fingernails grow — about 1.5 inches each year… Their motion cannot be stopped any more than we could turn off the sun,” Jones wrote in her recent book.
Earthquake scientists Ross Stein and Volkan Sevilgen, writing on their blog at Temblor.net said that this quake may have just made things worse for the area.
The two wrote that they believe that parts of three other faults — in remote areas of California — were actually “brought closer to failure by the 4th July quake.”
The area hit by Thursday’s quake likely became loaded with more seismic strain after two previous temblors — the 1872 Owens Valley and the 1992 Landers earthquakes.
The earthquake, now named the Searles Valley Quake, was preceded by 4.2 magnitude foreshock.
This has caused the city of Ridgecrest to declare a state of emergency, with the mayor citing five fires and broken gas lines as part of the city’s problems. There were also power outages that affected 28,000 residents. Meanwhile, the forecasted high temperature for the area is 100° today.
Near the epicenter of the quake, the fire department responded to more than 20 incidents, including fires and medical emergencies. Ridgecrest Regional Hospital was evacuated and about 15 patients from the emergency room were taken to another hospital. The facility is currently being inspected.
One nearby resident said of the earthquake: “We were panicked trying to get out of the house because everything is falling out of the cabinets, off the shelves, off the walls. … They were flying like missiles off the shelves.”
Another, directing a Fourth of July kids program, said that the quake startled the 65 children on stage. “It was terrifying,”she said.
Many residents near the area upset because the city’s smartphone app – set up to warn of quakes – didn’t send a warning in advance.
The earthquake was also felt in Las Vegas. It was the largest quake to hit southern California since 1999, when a 7.1 earthquake hit in the Mojave Desert. In 1994, a 6.7 magnitude quake hit Los Angeles, causing $25 billion in damage.
By Tyler Durden | ZeroHedge.com
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