'Something fishy': Frustrated lawmakers claim closed-door meeting shows Epstein 'cover-up' [View all]
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."
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