Alexander Acosta, the former US prosecutor of the South District of Florida who negotiated a guilt agreement in 2008 with Jeffrey Epstein, arrived in Capitol Hill on Friday morning to testify before the supervision committee of the House of Representatives behind closed doors.
Acosta, who served as Secretary of Labor during the first Trump administration, did not answer several questions shouted while entering the committee room.
Acosta resigned from her position in the Labor Department after more than two years at work amid controversy on her role in the 2008 guilt agreement with Epstein. At that time, he defended his decision, saying that his goal “was simple” and included putting Epstein behind bars.
The former lawyer of the Southern District of Florida and former Secretary of Labor, Alexander Acosta, walks with an interview with the Supervision and Reform of the Government of the House of Representatives as part of his research on Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwel in Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, September 19, 2025.
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With a continuous interest in the Epstein issue in Capitol Hill, Acosta is now testifying in a closed deposition.
“We want to know what happened during the prosecution, when many believe that Epstein received a guilt agreement. Therefore, we are going to ask many questions about this. This will be a quite overwhelming deposition,” said supervision president James Eat before Acosta’s interview on Friday.
The president of the Supervision Committee of the House of Representatives, James Eat, arrives before a supervision committee of the House of Representatives on the participation of former Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta in the Jeffrey Epstein case, in Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 19, 2025.
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Eating said the committee will have “many questions” for Acosta.
“Then, according to the victims and survivors of Epstein, there was a lot of warning about the crimes that Epstein and [Ghislaine] Maxwell promised. But, nevertheless, it seems that the Government disappointed the victims, and did not process. Then, Acosta was an important player in that, “he said.
Eating said Epstein’s investigation of the committee is “very serious” and “rapid movement.”
“The Trump administration is fully cooperating with us in this investigation. We will continue to obtain more equity documents without writing, and we can answer some more questions,” added eating.
In this archive photo of July 12, 2019, the Secretary of Labor, Alex Acosta, meets President Donald Trump while announcing his resignation to the media in the White House in Washington, DC
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Earlier this month, the committee published tens of thousands of records related to Epstein, provided by the Department of Justice in response to a citation of the committee. A review of the documents published by the Committee indicates that they consist largely in presentations of the public court and transcripts of the Maxwell trial, previously published flight records of the Epstein plane, the Public Office of Prison Prison Communications on Prisons The Night of the Death of Epstein and several other documents of the Public Court of the Criminal Case of Epstein in Florida.
