The House Oversight Committee is calling on Labor Secretary Alex Acosta to testify over his role in arranging a plea deal for financier Jeffrey Epstein ahead of his planned press conference on the subject.
A letter sent to Acosta on Wednesday from Oversight Chair Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Chair Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) invites the Labor secretary to testify during a hearing that has been scheduled for July 23. The committee is set to examine Acosta's role in, when he was a Florida prosector, arranging a non-prosecution agreement with Epstein and not informing the victims of his alleged sexual abuse about it. A judge said earlier this year that Acosta violated the Crime Victims' Rights Act in doing so. After agreeing to the deal, Epstein, who faced potential life in prison, served only 13 months in jail.
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