'Something fishy': Frustrated lawmakers claim closed-door meeting shows Epstein 'cover-up'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Raw Story

September 19, 2025 2:41PM ET


Lawmakers sensed "something fishy" going on after a closed-door hearing with Alex Acosta Friday, where the former federal prosecutor and Secretary of Labor was deposed about his involvement in the Jeffrey Epstein case. Seventeen years ago, Acosta brokered a controversial plea deal that allowed the disgraced financier to continue preying on girls and women, MSNBC reports.

He met with the House Oversight committee. Afterwards, Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA) flagged a weirdness in the meeting.

Subramanyam said the ex-prosecutor's attitude was "defiant and very, you know, there's a lack of remorse on his part," he told MSNBC, adding that "Republicans were giving him softballs." He apparently told lawmakers that he didn't know or remember what happened, and that he did not think the survivors were credible.

Subramanyam called the witness's memory "faded" and alleged "there's a clear cover-up happening right now." "It's really hard to believe he didn't know what was going on," he said. "He was in charge of the case himself," Subramanyam said, adding that Acosta let Epstein off 17 years ago in a "sweetheart deal."

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epstein-2674010879/

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[Kid Berwyn]

1. Acosta treated Epstein like every other billionaire criminal.

With all due respect before his hand was slapped very, very, very lightly with a hummingbird feather.

[patphil]

2. he did not think the survivors were credible

translation: Epstein and his buddies had the money to help me make my decision. Those "survivors" didn't.
So, money talked and Acosta listened. Trump paid him with a Secretary of Labor position.
Question: Were the young girls Epstein and others raped considered sex workers who came under the Secretary of Labor's jurisdiction?

[Scrivener7]

3. Which means Acosta knows full well how filthy that deal was, but he was paid, as you say

with the Sec of Labor position, but also with a ton of money at the time of the deal.

His hands are so dirty he's willing to lie like a rug and sound demented rather than own up to it.

[ultralite001]

4. The FBI, Epstein + Operation Leap Year...

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article256961892.html

https://crimetimelines.com/virginia-giuffre/

[ultralite001]

8. The Feds were asked to take over the investigation + the Bureau did, calling Epstein's case "Operation Leap Year."

https://web.archive.org/web/20211204102532/https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2018/12/08/cerabino-epstein-case-first-went-wrong-right-here/5604850007/

[twodogsbarking]

5. The sun will come out tomorrow, tomorrow, just like the last freakin 30 days with nada rain.

Something fishy. The understatement of any time period you pick, day, week, century, waiting for the stop light to change.

[Clouds Passing]

6. Thank you BRDS for trumpstein files updates. And keeping the issue front and center

[Evolve Dammit]

7. "Fishy" for over 15 years. Smells to high heaven (then and now). The rich own this place. n/t

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. The entire regime is fishy.

As in "Something is rotten in the state of ___________."

Stinking to high heaven, just like a dead skunk in the middle of the road.

[vanlassie]

10. Does he get to live in peace somewhere?

Go to restaurants? Movies? Golf?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[Joinfortmill]

11. So many Crooks and Liars.

[progressoid]

12. No shit.

[FakeNoose]

13. The big rumor was that Alex Acosta was told to lay off the Epstein case, and give him a deal

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... because Epstein worked for Mossad. (!)

I'm pretty sure I read this in the Miami Herald stories that covered the Epstein travesty and the state & federal government's failures to properly prosecute him. Before Acosta got the case, Epstein was also investigated by a local police investigator in West Palm Beach who tried, but he could never get the victims to go on record and formally accuse Epstein of anything.

My thought was that this rumor about Mossad might have been started by Ghislaine's father Robert Maxwell who was still living at the time, and he really DID work for Mossad.

[Wiz Imp]

22. "he could never get the victims to go on record and formally accuse Epstein of anything"

I believe this is false. The police chief Michael Reiter called the FBI because the Palm Beach County state prosecutor, Barry Krischer was being too lenient on Epstein. I've seen nothing to indicate that the victims wouldn't formally accuse Epstein of anything. The police alleged that Epstein had paid several girls to perform sexual acts with him. Interviews with five alleged victims and seventeen witnesses under oath, a high-school transcript and other items found in Epstein's trash and home allegedly showed that some of the girls involved were under 18, the youngest being 14, with many under 16. The police search of Epstein's home found two hidden cameras and large numbers of photos of girls throughout the house, some of whom the police had interviewed in the course of their investigation.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/11/20/jeffrey-epstein-saga-couldve-been-ended-attorney-barry-krischer/4237757002/

Krischer acted as if Epstein’s teenage accusers were prostitutes who eagerly sold their bodies to buy clothes at the mall instead of treating them like high school girls who said they had been sexually assaulted by a man four decades their senior.

Krischer decided he didn't believe them, but based on a review of the state attorney’s investigative files, no one from Krischer's office ever interviewed the girls or their parents. His lead prosecutor declared more than once that there were “no victims” in the case, according to documents obtained by The Post.

Finally, Krischer found a secret way to sink the case: He took it to a grand jury where only one victim testified. It was the first time a sex crimes case was presented to a grand jury by his office. Thirteen teens gave police nearly identical accounts of how the politically connected financier used his wealth to exploit the girls. Yet the task of convincing jurors that Epstein was a predator fell on the shoulders of one 14-year-old girl.

Krischer’s office then undermined its own witness, who had told police she had been fondled by a naked Epstein while she gave him a “massage,” sources close to the grand jury proceedings told The Post. Prosecutor Lanna Belohlavek peppered the girl with questions about her social media pages, the sources said. The girl’s MySpace account, supplied to prosecutors by Epstein’s lawyers, portrayed her drinking liquor with boys and talking about sex.

Also, it's been said that Alan Dershowitz was primarily responsible for negotiating the sweetheart deal. Make no mistake, I believe Dershowitz is much deeper into this than has been portrayed in the media. I believe he was one of the key figures in Epstein's entire schemes.

[FakeNoose]

23. OK I stand corrected ... thanks for setting the record straight

It was so long ago that I read these stories that I'm a little hazy on the details. I was certain that there had been no convictions on Epstein before Acosta got the case, but I couldn't remember the reason why.

[Wiz Imp]

24. No problem!

[paleotn]

14. Time to crank this up to the max. And pin it to Republicans.

Seems half the country will believe any conspiracy theory that comes down the pike. This one has facts behind it. Spin it against Republicans. Spin the hell out of it, Dems!!!!

[Puppyjive]

15. He got paid off

They need to look at those money transfers.

[moniss]

16. Need to check every financial account and real estate transaction

going back all the way to before he got the case and to the current time not only for Acosta but for every one of his family members.

[Wednesdays]

17. "Something fishy." Ya think?

[flashman13]

20. Me thinks something stinks!

[vapor2]

18. check out David kay Johnson comments

[Hotler]

19. Not one single person who paid to rape children on Epstein's island has been arrested. nt

[republianmushroom]

21. Must protect orange god.