Dershowitz is now trying to keep the press out of the proceedings.

On Monday, the Miami Herald reported that an attorney representing former Harvard Law Professor and high-powered defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz has written to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, requesting that the press be blocked from the child trafficking proceedings against billionaire wealth manager Jeffrey Epstein -- a measure that, if it is successful, would once again hide the most crucial details of Epstein's crimes from the general public.

Fellow Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe offered a scathing response

Also I'm becoming more sympathetic to Acosta because word is there are right wing forces in the White House that want him out because he has not rolled back enough regulations.  Or something.

It might not be Epstein who flips

Labor Secretary Acosta says Epstein Crimes `Horrific'

U.S. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta said on Tuesday that he was glad financier Jeffrey Epstein was being prosecuted on sex trafficking charges and defended himself against criticism over the way he handled the case as a former federal prosecutor.

"As the State Attorney for Palm Beach County for 16 years (1993-2009), which included the entire period of the Epstein investigation, I can state emphatically that Mr. Acosta's recollection of the matter is completely wrong. Federal prosecutors do not take a back seat to state prosecutors. That's not how the system works in the real world.

"The State Attorney's Office took the Palm Beach Police Department's investigation to a Grand Jury, and subpoenaed witnesses. The Grand Jury heard all the evidence that was available at the time (which did not include later evidence that emerged from civil depositions), and returned a single count indictment of Felony Solicitation of Prostitution, a third-degree felony.

"The U.S. Attorney's Office produced a 53-page indictment that was abandoned after secret negotiations between Mr. Epstein's lawyers and Mr. Acosta. The State Attorney's Office was not a party to those meetings or negotiations, and definitely had no part in the federal Non-Prosecution Agreement and the unusual confidentiality arrangement that kept everything hidden from the victims. No matter how my office resolved the state charges, the U.S. Attorney's Office always had the ability to file its own federal charges.

"If Mr. Acosta was truly concerned with the State's case and felt he had to rescue the matter, he would have moved forward with the 53-page indictment which his own office had drafted. Instead, Mr. Acosta brokered a secret plea deal that that resulted in a Non-Prosecution Agreement in violation of the Crime Victim Rights Act.

"Mr. Acosta should not be allowed to rewrite history."

I suppose it's possible that both Krischer and Acosta have been caught with their pants down, pun intended, and that both are now trying to throw each other under the bus. nevertheless, it appears highly likely that thanks to Acosta's ex parte discussions with defense counsel back in 2008, the fix was in and thus, Epstein subsequently had many more opportunities to re-offend.

And given the evidence against Epstein at the time, not to mention the fact that the victims here were minor children, what Acosta did in this case to subvert the cause of justice is simply unforgivable.

Among the leading candidates for a Pulitzer Prize in investigative journalism is the Miami Herald and its reporter Julie K. Brown for its series on the Jeffrey Epstein case. The series, however, was not based on rigorous and objective investigation, but rather on one sided, and largely false tips from self-interested lawyers who used the series to their financial advantage. Brown refused to investigate and/or publish highly credible information that undercut the simplistic and largely false narrative fed her by her biased sources. I know, because I have been providing her with much of the documents and information she chose to bury rather than report. Had she reported this contradictory material, she would have endangered the Pulitzer Prize she has been aiming to win. The Pulitzer Committee should not reward such biased and result oriented "reporting" by giving her the prize.