{"id":4047,"date":"2019-07-09T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-calls-on-acosta-to-resign-2019\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:07:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:07:35","slug":"merkley-calls-on-acosta-to-resign-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-calls-on-acosta-to-resign-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkley pide la renuncia de Acosta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &ndash; Oregon&rsquo;s Senator Jeff Merkley today released the following statement calling on Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta to resign. Merkley&rsquo;s call follows new details about the serial sexual abuse of children by Jeffrey Epstein, a powerful financier with whom Acosta negotiated a lenient 2007 plea deal when Acosta was serving as U.S. attorney in Florida:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDurante muchos a\u00f1os, Jeffrey Epstein invent\u00f3 y ejecut\u00f3 un plan diab\u00f3lico para poder aprovecharse y abusar sexualmente de docenas de ni\u00f1os. Los detalles de este esquema son horribles y tr\u00e1gicos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCuando Alex Acosta tuvo la oportunidad de llevarlo ante la justicia y proteger a las futuras v\u00edctimas, \u00bflo hizo? No. En cambio, antepuso el poder, el dinero y las conexiones de Epstein a la protecci\u00f3n de los ni\u00f1os y lo dej\u00f3 ir con un tir\u00f3n de orejas. Absurdamente, incluso permiti\u00f3 que Epstein saliera de la c\u00e1rcel durante seis de los siete d\u00edas de cada semana durante la breve sentencia que cumpli\u00f3. \u00bfEn qu\u00e9 mundo representa esto un acuerdo de culpabilidad apropiado para un depredador sexual en serie?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlex Acosta tiene responsabilidad directa por este error judicial y por no proteger a los ni\u00f1os. Debe renunciar de inmediato\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &ndash; Oregon&rsquo;s Senator Jeff Merkley today released the following statement calling on Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta to resign. 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