Alex Acosta, in a closed-door interview with lawmakers Friday, defended the widely criticized plea deal he brokered with Jeffrey Epstein while a U.S. attorney in Florida.
Acosta, who later served as Secretary of Labor during the first Trump administration, resigned from that post amid scrutiny of his handling of the Epstein case years earlier. He agreed voluntarily to sit with members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee as part of the panel’s new probe into the circumstances surrounding the late, convicted sex offender.
“Alex Acosta cooperated with our questions today and provided information that will help advance our…
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