Kash Patel Testifies the ‘Original Sin’ In Epstein Case Was Committed By Former Trump Cabinet Member

FBI Director Kash Patel testified Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, who served under his first administration, committed the “original sin” in the Jeffrey Epstein case.

As U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida in 2008, Acosta oversaw a secret non-prosecution deal with Epstein that allowed the financier to plead guilty to state charges involving a single underage victim, shielding him from federal prosecution.

A Justice Department review later concluded that Acosta “made the pivotal decision to resolve the federal investigation of Epstein through a state-based plea and either developed or approved the terms of the initial offer to the defense that set the beginning point for the subsequent negotiations that led” to the agreement.

During his appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Patel pointed at Acosta for having committed the “original sin” in Epstein’s case. Patel told the senators:

Now I know that there’s a lot of talk about Epstein. And I’m here to testify that the original sin in the Epstein case was the way it was initially brought by Mr. Acosta back in 2006.

The original case involved a very limited search warrant or set of search warrants and didn’t take as much investigatory material it should have seized.

If I were the FBI director then, it wouldn’t have happened. The search warrants were limited to small time periods to include 2002 to 2005 and 1997 to 2001. Mr. Acosta allowed Epstein to enter in 2008 to a plea and non prosecution agreement, which then the courts issued mandates and protective orders legally prohibiting anyone from ever seeing that material ever again without the permission of the court.

The non-prosecution agreements also bar future prosecutions for those involved at that time of those individuals. Still, this administration at the direction of President Trump has done more to turn over all the credible information we are legally able to do so, and we will continue to work with Congress to achieve that end.

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