Democrats Want Probe of Acosta’s Role in Sex Abuse Plea Deal

More than a dozen House Democrats are asking the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General to look into the labor secretary’s 2007 plea deal with a hedge fund manager accused of abusing underage girls.

The letter to the DOJ, obtained by Bloomberg Law, comes days after a Nov. 28 story by The Miami Herald detailed a plea agreement that Secretary Alexander Acosta, then a U.S. attorney in Miami, reached with lawyers for Jeffrey Epstein. The deal landed Epstein behind bars for 13 months on prostitution convictions and effectively stopped an investigation into claims he abused as many as ...