FBI wanted to arrest Epstein while he was judging a beauty pageant. The plan was overruled

MIAMI — A Justice Department look-back report into its abortive 2008 prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein found that the FBI had planned to arrest Jeffrey Epstein in May 2007, but pulled back after the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, led by former Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, frowned on the plan. The report also concludes that Epstein wasn’t assisting the federal …