What does it take for a government organization like the Department of Justice to live by hypocrisy and operate with a lack of ethics?
It takes size, years, selfish promotion, and creative explanations that expound their overstated contributions to our legislative branches and the American people.
In the Ferguson, Missouri shooting of Michael Brown by white police officer Darren Wilson last year, the DOJ began an investigation into the Ferguson, Missouri police force to examine whether officers routinely engaged in racial profiling or showed a pattern of excessive force according to CBS News. Why were they involved in a local city/state shooting incident?
It was an opportunity to flex their muscles and stage a rally for the African-American community who has claimed that discrimination against them has been going for decades.
The results of the investigation were released in a March 4, 2015 report, which concluded that police officers in Ferguson routinely violated the constitutional rights of the city’s residents, by discriminating against African Americans and applying racial stereotypes, in a “pattern or practice of unlawful conduct”.
Many would suggest that their politically motivated investigation demonstrated a lack of ethics, poor judgment, and intentionally overshadowed the findings of the grand jury.
DOJ even officials attended Michael Brown’s funeral.
Halfway through 2015 the national homicide rate in major cities continues to surge led by a 33% increase in Baltimore, New Orleans, and St. Louis. Chicago is rapidly on it’s way to challenging a previous record of 500 murders that took place in 2012.
Speaking of the Windy City, eleven people were murdered over the 4th of July weekend. The DOJ interestingly enough did not launch a civil investigation or attend the funerals of the victims.
They live by their own hypocrisy, pick their own skirmishes, and their lack of ethics continues to amaze me.
On July 1 in San Francisco Kathryn Steinle was gunned down while walking along a city pier with her father.
Her assailant, Juan Francisco Lopez, had seven felony convictions related to drugs and repeated illegal entries into the country.
Where has the DOJ been who oversees immigration services and policies?
They have no comment leaving the matter to the local San Francisco Sheriff’s Office, their continued hypocrisy was in full force blaming the Sheriff’s Office, and they decided not to attend Steinle’s funeral.
This is the only the tip of the iceberg concerning our Department of Justice who also oversee fifty-nine separate agencies who apparently report to no one including the FBI, DEA, Bureau of Prisons, Antitrust Division, and Bureau of Alcohol/Tobacco/Firearms/and Explosives.
I have personal experience with the DOJ having been criminally prosecuted in Northern California. Let me be clear that I was treated fairly and respectfully on the front end; and certainly deserved my prison sentence/restitution imposed on me for illegally acquiring computer parts from a global manufacturer that my company was not entitled to receive thirteen years ago.
You should also know that I was a government witness and testified against one of the owners of the business I worked in as part of a plea agreement.
As a resident of Minnesota, my supervised probation and restitution responsibilities transferred from Northern California to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minneapolis commencing in June 2010. My experience with this office has been radically different.
The United States has 94 U.S. Attorneys and they can pursue cases as they wish with unlimited resources.
As such, there will be always be inconsistent policies and employees doing what best promotes their careers. Therein lies the hypocrisy issues and lack of ethics that plays out every day in ways you cannot possibly imagine.
You never want to have conversations with the DOJ and your moral compasses must be in place to prevent personal wrongdoing from taking place.
These conversations are radically different from those that occur in our local communities and states that we live in.
In July 2011 the U.S. Attorney’s Office placed a lien on my home and never bothered to notify me. What kind of an organization takes such an aggressive action against individuals and doesn’t have the decency and ethics to inform them in advance?
Their hypocrisy is long and lengthy.
In October 2014 we sold our home and the title search never detected a lien. Had we known that a lien was in place my wife and I never would have entered into a sales agreement.
In January of this year, we received a written letter from the U.S. Attorney’s Office requesting updated financial information and all associated accounts in our names. Under the threat of not responding within thirty days, we quickly provided the requested information.
In February we received a letter from a paralegal specialist in the Financial Litigation Unit informing us that my IRA’s were officially frozen.
After some effort, I was able to contact this individual and voice my lengthy concerns. I was told that they had every right to take such an action and that any retirement funds could be used to pay off my remaining restitution obligations totaling over $200K.
Interestingly enough, former U.S. prosecutors that I personally know and remain in contact with were quite surprised by this threatened action. The mantra of “we can do whatever we want and however it needs to be done” was not a part of their ethics or experiences while working for the DOJ.
I wrote a passionate letter on March 1 to the Assistant U.S. Attorney in charge of the Criminal Division expressing my concerns and asking her not to take action. Of course, my letter was never answered.
The DOJ is great at writing letters but will not respond to individual concerns on any level unless you have legal representation. Their hypocrisy and lack of ethics is astounding.
Sadly and unfairly, the DOJ followed through and took most of my IRA monies to satisfy the restitution order originally imposed by the federal judge overseeing my case in Northern California.
I never imagined that my illegal behavior during 2001-2002 would result in a death sentence from the DOJ. My sorry episode has finally ended after thirteen plus years and my family can only move forward.
The best vaccine I know of to prevent unethical and illegal behavior from taking place is to create a powerful moral compass. We must construct it with a purpose and fill it with our most important values.
Shame on you big government and the DOJ for doing what is best for you and not what is best for us.
The average citizen deserves better and we have rights contrary to what you think. Your conduct and business practices need to be thoroughly examined.
We are putting you on notice and exercising what limited freedom of speech we have.
We are calling you out and calling you down regarding your hypocrisy, power trips, and lack of ethics.
We need us more than we need you.
I wish all of my readers the best health, peace, prosperity, and happiness. Do your very best each day and may your moral compasses always be working well.
Best regards/blessings, Mark
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