Ex-Trump official in hot water as new Epstein probe exposes trove of incriminating emails

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Raw Story

October 31, 2025 11:28AM ET


Federal prosecutors expanded their investigation of Jeffrey Epstein's alleged sex trafficking network to examine whether the disgraced financier was engaged in money laundering, according to a new review of his personal email account.

Bloomberg reviewed documents and emails from Epstein’s personal Yahoo account that show lead prosecutor Marie Villafaña, then assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, requested grand jury subpoenas in 2007 for "every financial transaction" he had engaged in for the previous four years. Sources say prosecutors also subpoenaed major banks for records about his accounts and financial activity.

"Epstein grew furious when he learned that prosecutors had broadened their investigation’s scope, the emails show," Bloomberg reported. "His high-powered team of lawyers, including Gerald Lefcourt, Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz, former Bush administration official Jay Lefkowitz and former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, argued that Villafaña was pursuing baseless claims to pressure their client into a plea deal. They launched an aggressive campaign to discredit her attempts to follow the money and pressured her higher-ups to remove her and others from the case — or scuttle the case entirely."

The money laundering probe raises new questions about congressional testimony last month from Alex Acosta, the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida who ultimately signed off on Epstein's plea deal.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/alex-acosta-jeffrey-epstein-2674254047/?utm_source=superhead

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Link to referenced Bloomberg article - https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-jeffrey-epstein-emails-money-laundering-charges/

[Chasstev365]

1. Ken Star: one of the most revolting figures in American history...

[slightlv]

3. It's really amazing how many of these names come up

over and over and over again. Bad pennies never go away; they just move from one disgrace to the next.

[Give Peace A Chance]

7. I am not surprised

They are ALL in bed together & have been for a long time.

[enough]

2. The "ex-Trump official in the story seems to be Alex Acosta.

He is now a high level official in current Trump regime.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. He's on the Newsmax board, but the Trump regime dropped him like a hot potato in 2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Acosta#Tenure

I think he'll go under the bus, when Congress releases some more Epstein stuff (whatever hasn't already been burnt, that is).

[AZJonnie]

4. So Bloomberg acquired 18,000 emails from Epstein's private yahoo account in the years before his arrest?

That sounds promising!

The existence of a 2007 money-laundering probe is definitely interesting, but I have to say I'm a bit more interested if any incriminating evidence about the powerful pedo cabal that Epstein was supplying victims to is in these emails?

Hopefully Bloomberg are about the finally blow the lid off of the conspiracy. Maybe there's talk about setting up "massage" appointments with the minors, about money changing hands, maybe even Epstein asking what Joe Richie-Rich thought of the services he provided them, that kind of thing? I mean it's his personal account, one would think that's where that talk would be, if he ever did talk about it electronically.

I'll be looking forward to further missives from Bloomberg as the trove is reviewed. And if they can catch Acosta in a lie to Congress, well then, great! LOCK HIM UP!

[NJCher]

8. One would constantly have to be discriminating

In what they wrote. There would have to be constant consciousness of guilt.

Maybe there's talk about setting up "massage" appointments with the minors, about money changing hands

That’s a problem for them and it comes automatically with normalizing their aberrant behavior.

[patphil]

6. Ken Starr was actually the dean of the Pepperdine Law School when my daughter got her law degree there.

He then moved on to become both President and Chancellor of Baylor, and eventually resigned during a scandal that involved the mishandling of sexual assault allegations of female athletes.
I'm not sure if he had any involvement, but it was the end of his career. He resigned in 2016, and died in 2020.