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Subject: CNN; Attorney General Bill Barr will not recuse himself from Jeffrey Epstein child sex 
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Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 15:55:02 +0000 
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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 Beach, 
Fla. 
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Epstein was being eyed for the same alleged conduct in Florida that federal prosecutors have now 
charged him with in Manhattan. 
A Justice Department official on Tuesday said that Barr consulted with career ethics officials at the 
department, and concluded he did not have to recuse himself from the current prosecution in 
Manhattan. 
However, Barr was quoted Monday as saying he was recusing himself from the Epstein case. 
"I'm recused from that matter because one of the law firm…
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