Acosta Asked by House Committee to Testify on Epstein (1)

Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta has been asked to testify at a House Oversight Committee hearing to answer questions over his involvement as a federal prosecutor in 2008 in the brokering of a plea deal that allowed a billionaire financier to avoid serious punishment for the sex trafficking of minors.

The financier, Jeffrey Epstein, was indicted July 8 on new federal sex trafficking charges, rekindling the outrage toward Acosta.

Maryland Democrats Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Jamie Raskin, chairman of that panel’s Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee, sent a ...