(JTA) — Alexander Acosta quit as U.S. secretary of labor amid debate over a plea deal he helped arrange for sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2008. President Donald Trump announced the resignation ...

US Labour Secretary Alex Acosta is resigning amid criticism of his role in a 2008 plea deal for financier Jeffrey Epstein in a child sex case. Mr Acosta, a former Florida prosecutor, made the ...

During Trump’s first term, Alexander Acosta served as labor secretary for the first two years. He was named when Trump’s first pick, Andy Puzder, the then-CEO of the company that owns the Hard ...

Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta argued in a news conference that his intervention in a 2008 sexual-abuse case against financier Jeffrey Epstein ensured Mr. Epstein got a tougher sentence than he ...

The Senate confirmed the last of President Trump’s nominees to lead major Cabinet departments on Thursday, approving Alexander Acosta as labor secretary in a 60-38 vote following months of White ...

A decade before #MeToo, a multimillionaire sex offender from Florida got the ultimate break. On a muggy October morning in 2007, Miami’s top federal prosecutor, Alexander Acosta, had a breakfast ...