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From: To: Cc: Subject: CNN; Attorney General Bill Barr will not recuse himself from Jeffrey Epstein child sex prosecution Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 15:55:02 +0000 Importance: High https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/09/bill-barr-will-not-recuse-himself-in-jeffrey-epstein-prosecution.html Attorney General Bill Barr will not recuse himself from Jeffrey Epstein child sex prosecution PUBLISHED 10 MIN AGO Attorney General William Barr will not recuse himself from involvement in the new federal criminal prosecution of accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, an official said Tuesday. But Barr will recuse himself from an internal Justice Department probe of current Labor Secretary's Alex Acosta involvement in approving a controversial no-prosecution deal with the wealthy financier a decade ago, an official said. Barr's decision to have oversight over the Epstein prosecution came on the heels of reports that he had recused himself from the case, which is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. And it came as a bevy of Democratic members of Congress and presidential candidates demanded that Acosta resign because of his role as then-U.S. Attorney in Miami in signing off on a deal to not prosecute Epstein in the mid-2000s. Epstein, 66, is accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls from 2002 to 2005 after they were brought to his luxurious residences on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and in Palm Beac