A 96 year old judge overseeing one of Epstein’s lawsuits has died Sunday, sparking more uproar in a case that has baffled the nation. Politico reports:
An elderly federal judge presiding over a key lawsuit relating to financier pedophile Jeffrey Epstein died Sunday, adding another twist to the drawn-out legal saga and to efforts to unseal still-secret details about the conduct of Epstein, his enablers and one of his accusers.
Manhattan-based U.S. District Court Judge Robert Sweet passed away Sunday at age 96, the court announced. Sweet was appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1978, confirmed that same year and continued to hear and rule on cases through the last few months.
Sweet was assigned to a lawsuit that emerged from the aftermath of Epstein’s controversial plea deal a decade ago, in which he escaped federal charges by pleading guilty to two prostitution-related offenses in state court. Epstein ended up spending 13 months in jail, with daily furloughs that allowed him to work in his office.
Critics have denounced the plea deal and the government official who negotiated it: Alexander Acosta, then the top federal prosecutor in south Florida and now U.S. secretary of Labor. The sentence, critics say, was excessively lenient for a man who faced allegations of procuring dozens of teenage girls for sex acts.
Lawsuits against Epstein will now be against his estate. Mitch McConnell will most likely fill the federal judge seat shortly.
This kind of disgusting “clickbait” fake news really irritates me. I’m unsubscribing!!
ANYTHING TO STIR UP THE PUBLIC….OLD NEWS, OR NEW NEWS…THE
FAKE NEWS GOES ON…THE LYING NEWSCASTERS NEVER STOP…WHENEVER
HE DIED…THE BEST PART, HE WAS PART OF THE EPSTEIN STORY….
ANYTHING FOR NEWS WHETHER IT IS LIES, OR IF IT ISN’T…MAKES A STORY
AND THAT IS ALL WE NEED TO FILL EMPTY PAGES OF NOTHING WHICH
THE PRINTED WORD IS NOW AND THE NEWSCASTS ARE…JUST GARBAGE…AND
IT MAKES FOR NOTHING ……SICK, ISN’T IT?
It keeps us engaged & distracted, too busy to pay notice what else they’re doing behind the curtain. The whole story of the world is being rewritten; & our kids are learning the revised version. We’re not in the One World Order version.
Robert W. Sweet
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Robert W. Sweet
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Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
In office
March 1, 1991 – March 24, 2019
Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
In office
April 28, 1978 – March 1, 1991
Appointed by Jimmy Carter
Preceded by Inzer Bass Wyatt
Succeeded by Harold Baer Jr.
Personal details
Born Robert Workman Sweet
October 15, 1922
Yonkers, New York
Died March 24, 2019 (aged 96)
Ketchum, Idaho[1]
Education Yale University (B.A.)
Yale Law School (LL.B.)
Robert Workman Sweet (October 15, 1922 – March 24, 2019) was an American jurist and United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
WTF? He died March 24th 2019?????
Can this be an old article? March 24th was on a Sunday
What a coincidence!