{"id":13519,"date":"2025-09-20T08:22:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T08:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/dems-slam-acosta-for-showing-no-remorse-for-epstein-plea-deal-he-helped-broker-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T08:22:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T08:22:02","slug":"dems-slam-acosta-for-showing-no-remorse-for-epstein-plea-deal-he-helped-broker-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/dems-slam-acosta-for-showing-no-remorse-for-epstein-plea-deal-he-helped-broker-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems slam Acosta for showing \u2018no remorse\u2019 for Epstein plea deal he helped broker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said Alex Acosta took responsibility Friday for the plea deal he helped broker as the U.S. attorney in south Florida for Jeffrey Epstein. They also said, however, he was unrepentant for the arrangement many believe led the late&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/09\/19\/congress\/acostas-epstein-interview-00573415\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said Alex Acosta took responsibility Friday for the plea deal he helped broker as the U.S. attorney in south Florida for Jeffrey Epstein. They also said, however, he was unrepentant for the arrangement many believe led the late&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}