[U.S. District Judge Kenneth] Marra agreed, saying that while prosecutors had the right to resolve the case in any way they saw fit, they violated the law by hiding the agreement from Epstein’s victims. Marra’s decision capped 11 years of litigation—which included the release of a trove of emails showing how Acosta and other prosecutors worked with Epstein’s high profile lawyers to conceal the deal—and the scope of Epstein’s crimes—from both his victims and the public.

The Labor Department declined a request for comment about the judge’s ruling, referring questions to the Department of Justice, which passed the buck to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami, which declined to comment. Acosta, presumably, is in line for a Presidential Medal of Freedom, or at the very least a supportive tweet from the boss.

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Meet Elizabeth Holmes’s dog

Elizabeth Holmes is the founder of Theranos, the blood-testing company she duped investors into believing possessed revolutionary technology that required roughly 1/100 to 1/1,000 of the amount of blood used in traditional tests, but was likely a complete and total sham. In March 2018, Theranos, Holmes, and former company president Ramesh Balwani were charged with “massive fraud” by the Securities and Exchange Commission (Holmes and Theranos did not admit or deny wrongdoing; Balwani has not yet settled). In June, Holmes and Balwani were indicted on 11 criminal felony counts, to which they both pleaded not guilty. In September, the company announced it would dissolve, with investors losing nearly $1 billion. At present, Balwani and Holmes are facing 20 years in prison, on top of $250,000 in fines plus restitution. Things, as they say, are not going particularly well for the woman once dubbed the next Steve Jobs.

Yet, incredibly, not too long ago, Holmes thought she was going to turn it all around and prove the haters wrong, according to a new story by my colleague Nick Bilton, who reports that in September 2017—after the company had been sued by investors, had 40 of its testing sites shut down, and was under investigation by the S.E.C., the D.O.J., and the F.B.I.—Holmes added a new member to the team who she believed would inspire employees to pull the company out of its death spiral: a Siberian husky named Balto who, fittingly, was not house- or office-broken: