Since taking office, #Trump has dismissed or demoted more than 20 inspectors general, sharply undermining the ability of the offices to act as a check on #misconduct [as Trump planned]. According to a congressional report, in the 2024 fiscal year alone, the inspectors general fired by Trump identified more than $50 billion in waste & abuse.
It was only one of many issues that the dept’s Office of #InspectorGeneral [#OIG] appears to have ignored, they said.
“The epidemic of alleged #misconduct has been met with a shrug by the agency whose job it is to address such allegations,” they said in their letter, which was sent to the #Republican & #Democratic leaders of the #House & #Senate #Judiciary Committees.
The #DOJ’s internal watchdog has seemingly ignored 20 instances of possible wrongdoing by the #Trump admin, lawyers for a #whistleblower said in a letter on Monday urging lawmakers to address the “apparent collapse” of an office meant to root out #misconduct.
The lawyers pointed to the case of their client, Erez Reuveni, who was fired in April last year amid a legal fight over the admin’s decision to send immigrants to #CECOT, a maximum-security prison in #ElSalvador. It
#DOJ Watchdog Has Gone Silent, Lawyers for #WhistleBlower Say
Lawyers for a fired Justice Department lawyer say the agency’s #InspectorGeneral appears to have ignored at least 20 different requests to scrutinize #misconduct.
#Trump #law #LegalEthics
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/us/politics/trump-administration-doj-watchdog-reuveni.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Trump’s #DoJ Dropped 23,000 #Criminal Investigations in Shift to #Immigration
In the first days after #PamBondi was appointed #AG last year, the DoJ began shutting down pending criminal cases at a record pace.
The cases included an #investigation into a #Virginia nursing home with a recent record of patient abuse; probes of fraud involving several #NJ labor unions, including one opened after a top official of a national union was accused of #embezzlement; and …
#ice
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-immigration-bondi-declinations-criminal-investigations
Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of President Donald Trump’s second term.
#DOJ sues #Minnesota, state high school league for allowing boys to compete in girls' sports
The Department of Justice announced a lawsuit Monday against Minnesota and the state's high school sports league for allowing boys to compete in girls' sports. According to the DOJ, the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) and the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) have engaged "in sex-based discrimination by requiring girls to compete .......
https://alphanews.org/doj-sues-minnesota-high-school-league-for-allowing-boys-to-compete-in-girls-sports
#TidySearch
(will enough people wake up and start calling the ones running AmeriKKKa what they are??? Terrorists!!!)
Under AG Pam Bondi, the DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-immigration-bondi-declinations-criminal-investigations?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #DOJ #Law #Crime #Legal #Terrorism #Fraud #Drugs #PamBondi #Trump
Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of President Donald Trump’s second term.
The cover up is always worse than the crime.
Unless you’re covering up the rape of young girls by a sitting president. Then it’s just as heinous as the rape.
#doj #fbi #trump #epstein #EpsteinFiles #republicans #MAGA #rape #news
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