{"id":967,"date":"2026-06-08T08:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T08:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=967"},"modified":"2026-06-08T08:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T08:10:11","slug":"explosive-report-drags-another-president-into-epstein-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=967","title":{"rendered":"Explosive Report Drags Another President Into Epstein Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>A new report has implicated President George W. Bush\u2019s Department of Justice in the controversial case of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=965\">Stephen Miller\u2019s Wife Inadvertently Promotes Pride Month<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The report, published in the Miami Herald by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julie K. Brown, whose reporting helped lead to Epstein\u2019s arrest in 2019, focuses on former Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter, who opened the first criminal probe into Epstein\u2019s conduct in the mid-2000s.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It features previously unreported details, including the fact that then-Miami U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta started negotiating a secret plea deal with Epstein in 2007 after the financier was arrested for felony solicitation the year before.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>After Reiter had gathered evidence and interviewed \u201ctwo dozen tearful girls and their parents,\u201d he was then \u201cstonewalled by state prosecutors and attacked in the media\u201d before being ostracized by federal prosecutors who took over the case.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to concerns raised by the parents of some of Epstein\u2019s victims, Reiter requested a meeting with Acosta, who served as President Donald Trump\u2019s labor secretary during his first term.<\/p>\n<p>Recalling the meeting in his conversation with Brown, Reiter says that he told Acosta, \u201cI\u2019m here to ask you to live up to the principles that you espoused when you were sworn in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho has the authority to make the decision of whether or not to federally prosecute Epstein? We turned it over to you. We did most of the work, and the assistant U.S. attorney told us she usually gets 10 years for each count, and we had maybe 100 counts and probably 24 or so cooperating victims. So whose authority is it?\u201d He added.<\/p>\n<p>According to Reiter, Acosta did not respond, prompting the police chief to express concern that Epstein\u2019s legal team was \u201cmanipulating\u201d Acosta\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=956\">NASCAR Hall of Famer Dies at 93<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been receiving some guidance from main justice and [Epstein\u2019s] defense attorneys have done a very effective job in stalling the case,\u201d Acosta replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Main justice\u2019 refers to the Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, D.C., which at that time during Bush\u2019s presidency was being overseen by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. The Daily Beast has contacted the Department of Justice and George W. Bush\u2019s office for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Epstein ultimately only pleaded guilty to one count of solicitation, despite law enforcement agencies having knowledge of as many as 40 potential victims. He would not be indicted on charges of sex trafficking minors until 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Epstein\u2019s name had previously been raised by the Trump transition team when Acosta was being interviewed for the role of labor secretary, with Acosta reportedly being asked, \u201cIs the Epstein case going to cause a problem [for confirmation hearings]?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was told Epstein \u2018belonged to intelligence\u2019 and to leave it alone,\u201d Acosta told the Trump transition team. He would later be appointed as Trump\u2019s labor secretary and serve in his Cabinet for two years.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Brown, Reiter said that he considers the fact that Epstein\u2019s behavior went unchallenged by so many powerful people for years\u2014many of whom he cultivated close friendships with in order to ensure exactly that\u2014to be the worst failure of the criminal justice system in recent years.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cSome reforms have been made, and the Epstein and Maxwell cases have shed light on many of the others that are still needed,\u201d Reiter said. \u201cBut the true measure of success will be whether the system learns from its failures and acts on those lessons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=954\">Piggly Wiggly Fined After Grisly Meat Grinder Injury<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report has implicated President George W. 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