The Latest: Ex-state attorney disputes Acosta’s account

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on developments in the sex trafficking case against Jeffrey Epstein (all times local):
7:05 p.m.
The former Palm Beach County state attorney is disputing Labor Secretary Alex Acosta’s account of why he signed off on a secret sex trafficking plea deal involving now-jailed financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Acosta insisted Wednesday that the deal in which Epstein pleaded guilty to lesser state charges was the toughest he could have gotten at the time. And he said pro