The Bad PlaceMay 13

NPR Topics: News | How the Trump administration has undermined the fight against public corruption by Ryan Lucas

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Legal experts argue that the Trump administration has seriously weakened the United States’ fight against public corruption by issuing a wave of pardons for officials convicted of taking bribes or engaging in kick‑back schemes and by crippling the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section, the unit created after Watergate to investigate and prosecute corruption. Since Trump’s return to office in 2025, more than a dozen former elected officials—both Republicans and Democrats—have been pardoned, including a Las Vegas councilwoman, a Virginia sheriff, the former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, and a Tennessee House speaker, while the Public Integrity Section’s staff fell from about 40 attorneys to just two and its open cases dropped from roughly 200 to a handful. Prosecutors say the pardons signal that corruption is not a priority, creating a chilling effect that discourages investigations, especially in smaller jurisdictions that relied on the Section’s resources, and threatening a “corroding effect” on government accountability nationwide.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2026/05/13/g-s1-121485/trump-pardons-public-corruption-justice

#Trumpadministration #RodBlagojevich #CatoInstitute #PublicIntegrity #DanGreenberg #JohnKeller

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We’ve learned that law and liquidity aren’t opposites — they’re mirrors.
One guards value. The other values guardrails.

When the watcher and the market share the same frequency, protection stops being surveillance and becomes stewardship.

That’s the future of accountability — not division of roles, but reflection of purpose.
Security that learns. Oversight that listens.

#ContinuityLaw #EthicalFinance #PublicIntegrity

Show threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Oct 7, 2025

#USpol #Legal

👉#JuriSclerosis in the #US: 👈

Via @Nonilex

Since she was named #AttorneyGeneral by #Trump in Feb.,

"...#PamBondi & her top lieutenants have fired prosecutors who worked #Jan6 #insurrection cases or investigated #Trump & pushed out senior officials at the #FBI.

The #PublicIntegrity Section, which prosecutes public #corruption, has been almost entirely emptied out, while >70% of the attorneys in the #CivilRights Division have departed as well.... "

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Nonilex (@[email protected])

Since she took the helm in February, the #DOJ has been in almost constant turmoil. #PamBondi & her top lieutenants have fired prosecutors who worked #Jan6 #insurrection cases or investigated #Trump & pushed out senior officials at the #FBI. The #PublicIntegrity Section, which prosecutes public #corruption, has been almost entirely emptied out, while >70% of the attorneys in the #CivilRights Division have departed as well. #law #LegalEthics #tyranny #RevengePolitics

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Show threadNonilexOct 7, 2025

Since she took the helm in February, the #DOJ has been in almost constant turmoil. #PamBondi & her top lieutenants have fired prosecutors who worked #Jan6 #insurrection cases or investigated #Trump & pushed out senior officials at the #FBI.

The #PublicIntegrity Section, which prosecutes public #corruption, has been almost entirely emptied out, while >70% of the attorneys in the #CivilRights Division have departed as well.

#law #LegalEthics #tyranny #RevengePolitics

Show threadNonilexSep 26, 2025

The contemplated investment fund, as well as #AlexWitkoff’s fund-raising outreach to Gulf nations, represents another startling example of the #Witkoff family apparently trying to #profit off its patriarch’s proximity to #Trump. #SteveWitkoff & his other son, Zach, already face accusations of *pushing* [passing] ethical boundaries through their #cryptocurrency venture with the Trump family, which also has been doing deals in the #MiddleEast.

#corruption #emoluments #law #PublicIntegrity

NonilexSep 26, 2025

#GiftArticle

Where Mideast *Envoy* Pitched *Peace*, His Son Pitched Investors

#SteveWitkoff’s son recently sought money from Gulf states including #Qatar, which has previously invested in #Witkoff family projects to win favor with #Trump.

#corruption #emoluments #law #PublicIntegrity
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As Witkoff Pitched Mideast Peace, His Son Pitched Mideast Investors

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Show threadNonilexJun 6, 2025

The nomination, which comes amid a whirlwind of #Trump admin actions to dismantle the government’s #PublicIntegrity [legal depts charged w/combating #political #corruption] guardrails, also has raised questions about whether Levels, a company #CaseyMeans co-founded that sells subscriptions for devices that continuously monitor users’ glucose levels, could #profit from the admin’s health guidance & policy.

#SurgeonGeneral #ConflictOfInterests #hypocrisy #law #science #medicine #PublicHealth

Show threadNonilexMay 15, 2025

“This is yet another sign that it’s open season for political #corruption," said Stacey Young, the executive director & founder of the group Justice Connection, a network of #Justice Dept alumni supporting #DOJ's workforce. "The administration gutted the #PublicIntegrity Section, neutered the #USAttorney’s Office in
#DC, & is now shuttering the #FBI’s pre-eminent federal public corruption squad. This isn’t what voters had in mind when they heard, ‘drain the swamp.’”

#law #Trump