The “original sin” in the probe of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was the way that the federal prosecutor at the time, Alex Acosta, first handled the case in 2006, FBI Director Kash Patel said during his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Axios reported.
Patel told the committee that “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,” emphasizing that if he were the FBI director then, “it wouldn’t have happened.”
In 2008, as a federal prosecutor, Acosta oversaw a highly controversial non-prosecution agreement by which Epstein was eventually sentenced to serve 18 months in a Florida state prison, according to Axios.
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