LETTER TO EDITORS REGARDING EDITORIAL "The Cowardly Labor Secretary": Your editorial dated March 1, 2019 is riddled with factual errors and conclusions that were in profound conflict with the reality as we knew it. The underlying premise that the leadership of one of the largest United States Attorneys Offices in the country — the Southern District of Florida — including not only the then United States Attorney Alex Acosta but experienced senior prosecutors in his office would "capitulate" and surrender legitimate federal prosecutorial interests because Jeffrey Epstein had a legal team of "high priced" defense counsel was categorically denied in a column authored by the Southern District's then First Assistant Jeffrey H. Sloman which appeared in the Miami Herald on February 15, 2019. Mr. Sloman correctly represented that the case against Mr. Epstein was at its core a quintessentially local case meaning that it lacked the credible and compelling proof that is required by federal criminal statutes. He also correctly represented that the Government achieved its principal objective — a felony plea, incarceration, millions of dollars in restitution and monetary settlements, and lifetime sex offender registration through its Agreement with Mr. Epstein. What your editorial also entirely omits is that the Agreement between Epstein's counsel and Mr. Acosta's United States Attorneys Office was reviewed at multiple levels of the Department of Justice i.e. at the highest levels of Government. Both the DOJ Criminal Division and its Deputy Attorney General endorsed the exercise of discretion by Mr. Acosta and his United States Attorneys Office. To mischaracterize the Agreement as an act of "capitulation" needing "accountability" is profoundly at odds with reality. Yes, both sides worked towards an Agreement not trial. That is how over 96% of federal cases get resolved, through negotiations by two teams of experienced professionals. That the guilty plea