WATCH: Rep. Dave Min on Alex Acosta: “Completely Non-Credible”

Washington, D.C. - On Friday, Representative Dave Min (CA-47), a former SEC prosecutor and member of the House Oversight Committee, questioned Alex Acosta, the US attorney responsible for Jeffrey Epstein's sweetheart plea deal. Following his questioning, Rep. Min remarked that Acosta's answers were "evasive, he obfuscated, and they were just not believable," concluding that there is a lot of evidence being hidden.

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As Chair of the CPC's Fighting Corruption taskforce, Rep. Min has stood up to the dishonesty of the White House, including his work to demand the release of the Epstein files and get justice for the survivors of Epstein's abuse.

Read Rep. Min's full remarks below:

"I'm Congressman Dave Min of California's 47th, and before coming to Congress, I was a law professor at UC Irvine.

And I'll tell you, after the first hour of sitting with Alex Acosta, I found him to be completely non-credible as a witness.

His answers were evasive, he obfuscated and they were just not believable.

Just to give you one example, we know that his chief federal prosecutor, in addition to bringing a long charging memo, and a prosecution memo, had actually said that the computer evidence that was being withheld by the defense at that point in time.

All these files, the surveillance videos, perhaps child pornography, they were not producing it.

She had said that that was the smoking gun that would put this whole thing to bed.

When I asked Alex Acosta about this, his response was that he didn't actually review the evidence on this case and would have no input on this, which is just impossible to believe given the high profile nature of Jeffrey Epstein at the time.

Given the fact that Alex Acosta was having meetings with the attorneys for Jeffrey Epstein contemporaneously with all this, completely non-credible, I doubt we'll get a lot of honesty out of him today.

But what we're hoping to get is a roadmap to the types of evidence that we can demand from, as the Oversight Committee, from the Epstein estate, a roadmap to that, and of course, we're going to continue to get, I believe, a lack of remorse, a lot of obfuscation out of Alex Acosta.

Very frustrating, but we are going to get answers."

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