Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Criminal Section
Tona Boyd: Ms. Boyd is another Honors Program hire. Before joining the Section following a clerkship with the ultra-liberal Roger Gregory of the Fourth Circuit (who, as many readers will recall, received a recess appointment from President Clinton and was later nominated by President Bush as an unreciprocated olive branch to Democrats in an effort to reach détente in the judicial nominations war), she interned for the ACLU National Racial Justice Project, served as the Racial Justice Chair of the Black Law Students Association, and co-chaired the Jena Six Symposium Conference at Harvard Law School, the contents of which must be seen to be believed (e.g., “Suvall advocated a restorative justice model for school discipline”).
In addition to these activities, Ms. Boyd was a member of the executive board of the ACLU, was elected vice-president of the Harvard Law School Democrats, and served on the Executive Board of the Harvard chapter of the liberal American Constitution Society. While serving as an editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, she wrote an article titled “Confronting Racial Disparity: Legislative Responses to the School-to-Prison Pipeline,” in which she argued that tough law enforcement policies against violent youth should be abandoned, because they tend to “cast too wide a net, failing to differentiate between gangs and other group criminal activity, and could exacerbate the problem of disproportionate minority contact.”
The current Civil Rights Division, with its open embrace of racially selective law enforcement, must be nirvana.
Cindy Chung: Ms. Chung had some experience as an assistant district attorney prior to joining the Criminal Section, but it was no doubt her active membership in the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund and clerkship for the extremely liberal Judge Myron Thompson that really impressed Civil Rights Division hiring officials. Or perhaps it was her service as managing editor of the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, which describes its mission as “publish[ing] interdisciplinary works related to feminism and gender-related issues with the aim of promoting dialogue, debate, and awareness around an expansive view of feminism embracing women and men of different colors, classes, sexual orientations, and cultures.” Either way, Ms. Chung demonstrates how the liberal litmus test lands six-figure jobs in a depressed lawyer job market.
Fara Gold: Characterized by her law school alumni magazine as an “idealist, in and out” who successfully avoided becoming a “realist” during law school, Ms. Gold arrived in the Section after working as a sex crimes prosecutor in Florida. During her undergraduate days, she worked as a counselor at a rape crisis center in Georgia and vowed thereafter to spend her life helping victims. She writes that she contemplated going into social work but ultimately felt that she could assist victims more effectively as a prosecutor.
Henry Leventis: Mr. Leventis joined the Section after serving as the New Hampshire regional field director for Democratic Senator Chris Dodd’s 2008 presidential campaign.
Carroll McCabe: Ms. McCabe was hired into the Section after spending her entire career as a personal injury and criminal defense attorney, concentrating the bulk of her time representing murderers facing the death penalty. Although a number of her community activities have been conspicuously redacted from her resume by the Department of Justice, her capital defense practice as well as her membership in both the American Trial Lawyers Association and the Organization of Hispanics and Latin Americans of Anne Arundel County on her resume served as the ticket to admission.
Saeed Mody: Mr. Mody is another liberal activist hired into the Section as a career civil servant. While a law student at the University of Texas-Austin, he served as vice-president of the Muslim Student Lawyers Association and worked in the criminal defense clinic. He also clerked for the Texas Civil Rights Project, where he assisted the NAACP in suing the Austin Police Department for alleged brutality. Any law enforcement official who is interviewed by Mr. Mody should bear that fact in mind next time he claims he is just interested in getting at the truth.
As an undergraduate at UT-Austin, he served as co-chair of the campus Palestine Solidarity Committee.
Ryan Murguia: Mr. Murguia joined the Section straight out of law school as part of the attorney general’s Honors Program. But he has an impressive partisan and Democratic pedigree. Most prominently, he headed the Illinois chapter of Young Latino Professionals for Obama in 2008. He also received scholarships from the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) as well as the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Needless to say, those awards are not given to conservatives.
Mr. Murguia also comes from a very prominent Democratic family. His uncle is a federal district judge in Kansas who was appointed to the bench by President Clinton. His aunt Mary was appointed to the federal district court in Arizona by President Clinton, and was recently elevated to the Ninth Circuit by President Obama. His other aunt, Janet, is the president of the National Council of La Raza (translation: The Race), serves on the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and served as deputy assistant to President Clinton at the White House. She’s a major player in national Democratic circles.
Sometimes who you know is as important as what your politics are in getting a job at this DOJ.
Could the hiring bias be thought of as consistent with, or fairly labeled as, Mugabeism?
The label of leftist-bias does not fully capture the racial animus, genuine hate, that animates these activists.
Well one way to beat them at their game is to elect enough Conservatives that we can get rid of vast sections of law. Therefore we wouldn’t need those lawyers. In fact, vast sections of our country need to be liberated from Washinton as its become nothing but a favors factory. Long live the Tea Party Revolution.
AMEN to that Patty,
Is it possible for a new Attorney General to fire the entire DOJ the moment he/she takes office?
The entire “administration” is corrupt. The “brown shirts” have launched their own website:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/14/obama-campaign-launches-attackwatch-com/
We’re fighting radical islam on foreign soil, and RADICAL LIBERALISM here in the United States.
Looks like it’s going to get a lot more malicious before Mugabe Jr. is thrown out.
Stunning! Exactly how does Eric Holder think he can so glibly get away with this kind of politicization? These articles truly demonstrate how the criticism of the Bush administration was complete nonsense. Thanks, PJM. This series deserves an award. Outstanding work!
Thanks Steven. Lots of work went into the series. But don’t expect any awards. Awards are only given to dead trees newspapers that report on scandals in Republican adminstrations and then defend Democratic administrations who actually engage in the behavior.
You ask “how does Eric Holder think he can so glibly get away with this kind of politicization?” Come now. Think for a minute. Did he pull these stunts under Clinton? Of course not. He is mainly following orders from his president and together they are setting back American race relations by sixty years. White America has long ago swept racism out of the country. Simple proof is, we elected a black president who will never sweep racism out of his heart. There will be much to repair in the DOJ in 2012 after the fumigating of the White House.
How does he think he can get away with it? Who’s going to stop him? He’s in charge of all Federal law enforcement and prosecution. Whether criminal or civil, it won’t get past Eric Holder’s department unless he says so. More than Barack Obama, Holder needs to be impeached and removed from office, and while impeachment of a president tends to gain him sympathy and might even serve to garner him votes, impeachment of a felonious and corrupt AG will have the exact opposite effect while cleaning up the Federal government.
Sometime in the late 90′s, I sat in a public television studio (your tax dollars at work) watching, aghast, as left-leaning activists plotted out the current hate-crimes movement. They talked about the Klan, about white racism, about things that had happened 100 years and fifty years ago — but not one of them mentioned the tidal-wave of crime that destroyed millions of lives and reduced communities and investments to rubble starting in the 1960′s, peaking in the early 90′s, and still going strong outside the TV station’s own walls in Northwest Atlanta.
Of course these activists didn’t mention those rapes and assaults and robberies and murders: they had dedicated their lives to vehemently opposing punishment for criminals, or at least the black ones. Predominant in such contempt for victims and unwavering allegiance to minority criminals was Eric Holder, who was presiding over the televised hate crimes conference in Washington.
So it needs to be understood that the hate crimes movement was a movement created by people who never believed in punishing minorities who committed crimes against either whites or other minorities in the first place. The hate crimes movement is a deeply racist movement, but it is also a movement created by people who were willing to sacrifice the lives and peace of mind and possessions of law-abiding minorities (statistically over-represented as victims of crime) in order to demonstrate their unwavering allegiance to minority men who committed crimes.
There is no way to “fix” the enforcement of “hate crime” laws. These laws are not about the words written in state and federal codes; they are not about combatting hate, because they intentionally exclude the vast majority of real victims of hate, and they can never include them because then most crimes against persons would be hate crimes. The focus among conservatives on black-on-white offenses is understandable, but it fails to grasp the truly perverse effects of these laws on everyone. Hate crime laws replace equality with political power in the one institution where such bias is most corrosive.
But these crimes do not only privilege certain types of people: they also dehumanize crime victims who do not fit their political prerogatives.
Early on in the hate crimes game (and it is a game), activists in Georgia were eagerly awaiting the first crime they could call “hate.” A transvestite prostitute was brutally beaten in Cordele; he made it to a stranger’s doorstep and died after saying something about his boyfriend. Activists in Atlanta excitedly geared up to find out if the crime would be labeled “hate” or “non-hate” — to be specific, they were waiting to hear if the assailant knew he was killing a man dressed as a woman or if he was “just killing a woman,” as so many women prostitutes had been killed over the years. “Just killing a woman” wouldn’t be “hate,” of course, and such willingness to dehumanize certain classes of people was an inevitable outcome. Fifteen years later, the DOJ and every state hate crimes agency is crawling with prejudiced ideologues. Yet I’ve heard very little from conservatives about overturning these increasingly unpopular laws.
Until the Republican Party, and conservatives and Tea Partiers make it a clear political goal to eliminate these laws and return to the standard of colorblind enforcement, our justice system will continue to be the very tool dismantling equal protection under the law. But I don’t see a call for this anywhere.
I think it should be very clear to anyone with an ounce of common sense(something the democratic party is sorely lacking in) that this is the most inefficent and by far the most CORRUPT administration in the history of the United States. it is very refreshing to see that the good people of New York are waking up to reality,
It’s not so bad that Obama’s political appointees are leftist, it’s that many are crooked.A long-time friend and staunch Democrat working in a large Federal agency in Washington says he’s never seen such a lack of ethics in the political appointees there. They are unfair, ruthless and careless and utterly without scruples. Fine bunch, and that’s in one of the more noncontroversial agencies of the Federal “Family.”
“When a mob of blacks savagely attacked random whites at the Wisconsin State Fair earlier this summer, the Section did nothing. When a similar riot occurred at the Iowa State Fair in August 2010 — where bands of black teens organized a “beat whitey night” — the Section once again did nothing. Last month, still another flash mob of blacks beating whites took place in Philadelphia, yet the Section did nothing. The same is true near Pittsburgh and in Ohio.”
This is starting to get dangerous. If Holder does not prosecute these crimes, it only encourages criminals to do more of them. One day a flash mob is going to pick on the wrong person, probably one that is armed. He or she will not feel like getting pounded to a pulp by a mob and that person will start shooting. I wonder if some of the black teens in the flash mob are shot by the white victim, will Holder then presecute the white victim for murder? Want to take an bets that he will?
I’m thinking the more relevant question is why aren’t local officials taking action? The Fed toolkit is both limited and, I think, fundamentally anti-federaist. I believe that these flash mob and other kinds on black on white crime should not be federal matters at all unless local officials fail or refuse to act and the US can assert it to be a federal matter because citizens have been deprived of Constitutional rights under color of state or local authority.
The real problem is that local government in urban, mostly Black and Democrat controlled, areas has become every bit as lawless and discriminatory today as the worst all-white jury in Mississippi was in the early ’60s. Unfortunately, the same people and their progeny who were excoriating MS in the ’60s are now running those equally lawless cities; bottom rail on top now Massa.
I live in the Philly area. Philly has been under Democrat/liberal “rule” for decades. It is the home of the NBP voting place incident, home of flash mobs, where Mayor Michael Nutter (who is black) excoriated such youthful lawlessness. I was glad to see him do so, and I think he was sincerely outraged. Still, many people are unaware of the Obama-Holder DoJ and its blatant racism. The msm is a partner in this and does not bother to report or investigate the many instances DoJ of discrimination, as it would surely do if the president were a Republican.
Local police depts may no be aggressively responding to the flash mobs because the DOJ has launched a nationwide investigation against police departments in major metro areas, resulting with some police depts being sued by the DOJ for, take a wild guess…..civil rights violations of course.
And the funny thing is, this was announced the same Memorial Weekend when there were numerous violent flash mob incidents across the nation.
Like Sam Walker, an emeritus professor at the University of Nebraska who studies police accountability says in the article, it “sends a message to the whole field”…….and the message is if you persue these flash mobs, expect a call from the DOJ.
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/05/30/justice_department_civil_rights_police
Do you really want the feds to start imposing themselves on state crime prosecution? I totally agree with you that these laws are being applied, or not applied, based on inappropriate racial choices.
But more of the same isn’t the solution. The states are supposed to prosecute crime. Forays by the feds into state criminal justice enforcement is dangerous.
Last night I watched an episode of the show “Top Shot”. For those not familiar with it, each season starts with 16 contestants divided up into two teams that compete against each other. At the end of each episode the losing team has to pick two shooters to go to an elimination round where they shoot against each other to see who gets eliminated.
Last night the losing team picked a black Navy Seal as one of the two that had to shoot it out. His attitude through the whole first few episodes has been I’m in charge, listen to me, I’m right, you’re wrong. He has shown no leadership ability at all so far. It has been showing in the attitude of his team mates too which explains why he wound up in the elimination round.
As they prepared for the shoot out he was visibly and verbally angry. He stated he was the best thing about the team and all the others would be sorry they ever sent him to the elimination round. He did win the round and the other shooter was eliminated but as soon as he got back to their quarters he picked up his stuff and moved out to the back yard, not even speaking to his team. Although he never came out and said it you could tell he was thinking his whole team was out to get him. I kept expecting to start yelling about his team being prejudiced honkeys and they were only out to get him because he was black! Not true of course. Yes his team was out to get him but it was because he was an A-hole, not because he was black.
If I were on this show I would be very afraid to be anywhere near this guy. I’m sure he will be up for elimination every week till the end of the season or at least until he finally does get eliminated. It wouldn’t surprise me if I later hear he has sued the show for racial discrimination because he lost.
I know this doesn’t quite fit in with the whole subject of this article but it does show the attitude we have to fight against.
I am sure he one the shootout because of affirmative action.
Personally, I’m tired of documenting acts of corruption committed by the Obama administration. I’m much more interested in prosecuting them. I predict, in the not too distant future, they’ll be a long line of miscreants led out of the White House in handcuffs. If they’re smart, the rats will start leaping off the ship of state about now.
This brings up something that I want to see in a GOP candidate. The backbone to rip out the slants and time bombs this administration has been building everyday in the bureaucracies. Not in one day but it is essential. No holding actions. Oh the screaming and the invective from the NY Times ABC and NPR. But my candidate would say fine… and stomp out the jive anyway. He/She should know the difference between the Constitution and political payoffs. Between the benefit to the citizens and intimidation of citizens. A long term vision. Let the States that continue to embrace socialism carry their own weight.
Also no Northeast “semi-republicans” who want to get along and make nice with the spoilers of this country…like Sen. Susan Collins. She should not even be in the room when decisions are made. Romney? Hmm?
I still dream of a candidate who speaks forcefully (yet appropriately) to the Lib Hordes in clear terms…that inspire the productive and patriotic citizens of this nation. But then Chris Christie isn’t running.
It’s not that I don’t care about corrupt hirings in the halls of ObamaJustice.
It’s more a case that I’m so glad the American people are turning their backs on Obama’s ideas, schemes and plans to destroy America. On November 4, 2008, gullible, naive American people gave Obama the ingredients to bake an Alinsky cake and he went about his business handing out free million dollars slices of the America.
Looting the treasury.
Corrupting the voting system; shoving as much money into ACORN as he could. Insulting the nations who have stood shoulder to shoulder with us in war after war. Giving comfort and aid to our enemies. When the people of Iran would ready to revolt a while back, Obama was quiet as a church mouse. Thousands were slaughtered like Obama encourages abortion to annually kill millions of unborn in the United States.
The list of ObamaFailings goes on.
Failing to take even one step to make this country energy efficient. Disallowing drilling. Killing millions of jobs. Laughing about his Stimulus bill with shovel ready jobs that weren’t shovel ready at all. Laugh it up, Barack.
While Obama rules and regulations killed millions of jobs, Obama was up to no good when he and Holder refused military trials to terrorists who killed thousands of Americans. Then Obama encouraged the building of the Victory Mosque at ground zero because it was a slap in the face of the families whose mothers, and fathers,and sons and daughters died horrible deaths on 9/11.
Of course, we all saw the recent 9/11 memorial. But how many realize that during a procession of the firefighters and police and families mourning the dead, Michelle turned to Obama and whispered, “All this for a flag”. Lip reading works.
Obama doesn’t work. At least, not for America. He works to undermine the values and foundational ideals on which this nation was founded.
Counting ObamaCare, Obama succeeded even beyond his dreams to kill the American Dream.
However, on 2010, out of the election-oven, patriotic Americans were baking up a plan of their own; which messed up some of Obama’s worst schemes like Cap and Trade which would have shot up energy costs. Inflation would have soared.
J. Christian Adams, I love you.
But even more do I love those New York voters from the 9th congressional district who spat out the Kook-Aid they’ve been drinking for decades, electing Bob Turner to replace the hot dog, Tony Weiner. Another example that Americans are waking up to a national threat the size of December 7.
All in all, are the rats jumping up the Obama ship of state. You bet. And he knows it. Next time you see the anointed one give a speech notice the stains on his suit.
Thank you, New Yorkers of the 9th congressional district.
You spat out the Kool-Aid and gave Obama a little of the punishment he deserves: The equivalent of a pie in the face.
Auger of things to come
I didn’t see anything particularly bad about Fara Gold. Former state sex crimes prosecutor? Rape crisis counselor? Wants to be a prosecutor, i.e. put the bad guys away? That all sounds good to me.
In one of the linked pieces, she wrote that as a prosecutor she was ashamed of Mike Nifong, which is good.
So that’s one exception.
I second that. Fara Gold is described by others as an “idealist,” but her own words challenge the lazy presumptions that surrounded her in college. In her interviews, she talks quite directly about shedding illusions about the negative role of prosecutors and the alleged “victimization” of defendants. She uses fluffy pink “feminist” forums to challenge the readers of those forums to reconsider their own warped preconceptions — good for her. And she has clearly figured out that, contrary to everything she was taught in the therapeutic academic culture, bad guys belong behind bars, not being “understood” and excused. Broward County’s prosecution unit, where she trained, has a darn good reputation.
So one good hire might have slipped in under the wire. Sadly, the contrast between her and her peers reveals just how sickeningly perverse it is to hire a bunch of career activists for criminals to staff the DOJ’s crime unit. Thanks again for writing this important series, Mr. Adams.
I notice you said nothing, investigated nothing, commented nothing about the far-right bias in hiring in Bush’s DOJ?
Or maybe the name Monica Goodling slipped past you?
Just another example of why PJMedia is worthless.
Hey Old Redneck: I saw firsthand the Bush hiring. There were as many left wing lawyers hired as there were conservative lawyers. In some sections ZERO conservatives were hired. During the Bush years, the hiring was essentially 33-33-33 (L, Apolitical, R). During the Obama years, it is 100-0. At best, 99-1-0.
Facts are stubbon things; data are data.
Ouch. That’s going to leave a mark.
I don’t love Obama, but as President why shouldn’t he and his Cabinet have the right to hire those who are supportive of their ideology? George Bush called it political capital – you earn the right to move agendas forward that the President support because after all you were elected to carry out your agenda? This demonization on this principle for me, is a real stretch.
CHM – you have absolutely wrong. There are laws banning hiring into the CIVIL SERVICE ranks based on politics. It is against the law. Presumably the law still matters. You are confusing the civil service ranks with political appointees/staff. On the latter, you are correct. On the former, you are incorrect.
The phrase we will hear if this is ever brought to a head is “no controlling legal authority”.
You saw firsthand what you wanted to see.
You are a typical rightwinger who looks in the mirror each morning and sees Mr. Perfect. You were incompetent and you were fired. Get over it and find a job.
Can you hang drywall? I’m hiring.
Hey, Adams — I thought your name was familiar.
About a year ago you were here on PJMedia spreading the story about how DOJ was about to forgive and forget Ike Brown from Noxubee County, MS.
Remember that?
Brown, a black man, had been found guilty of voter intimidation and banned from participating in elections for four years. Brown appealed to Holder and you told us that Brown would be pardoned by Holder because, well, because Brown was a “brother.”
Then, Holder’s DOJ not only did not pardon Ike Brown, they added ANOTHER YEAR onto his sentence!!!! And suddenly you dropped out of sight.
Remember that?
So much for your inside information.
In case you need a memory jog:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/34297429/Motion-for-Addtional-Relief
Not only did DOJ deny Brown’s request for pre-clearance, but they requested the court extend his prohibition from November 2012 to November 2013.
Meanwhile, here’s the rest of the J. Christian Adams story:
http://mediamatters.org/research/201007070020
Rightwingers: Dogshit stupid and batshit crazy, every one of you.
When people are hired to overturn the Constitution of the United States Of America, a crime is mommited.
DEFINITIONS: HIGH CRIMES, SEDITION, TREASON ETC.
DEFINITIONS.
TYRANT
IN COMMON USAGE, THE WORD “TYRANT” CARRIES CONNOTATIONS OF A HARSH AND CRUEL RULER WHO PLACES HIS OR HER OWN INTERESTS OR THE INTERESTS OF A SMALL OLIGARCHY OVER THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE GENERAL POPULATION, WHICH THE TYRANT GOVERNS OR CONTROLS.
TREASON
• Violation of allegiance toward one’s country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one’s country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies.
• A betrayal of trust or confidence.
Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/treason#ixzz1QsLrbdUd
ORAN’S DICTIONARY OF THE LAW (1983) DEFINES TREASON AS “…[A]…CITIZEN’S ACTIONS TO HELP A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT OVERTHROW, MAKE WAR AGAINST, OR SERIOUSLY INJURE THE [PARENT NATION].” IN MANY NATIONS, IT IS ALSO OFTEN CONSIDERED TREASON TO ATTEMPT OR CONSPIRE TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT, EVEN IF NO FOREIGN COUNTRY IS AIDED OR INVOLVED BY SUCH AN ENDEAVOUR.
SEDITION IN LAW, SEDITION IS OVERT CONDUCT, SUCH AS SPEECH AND ORGANIZATION, THAT IS DEEMED BY THE LEGAL AUTHORITY TO TEND TOWARD INSURRECTION AGAINST THE ESTABLISHED ORDER. SEDITION OFTEN INCLUDES SUBVERSION OF A CONSTITUTION AND INCITEMENT OF DISCONTENT (OR RESISTANCE) TO LAWFUL AUTHORITY. SEDITION MAY INCLUDE ANY COMMOTION, THOUGH NOT AIMED AT DIRECT AND OPEN VIOLENCE AGAINST THE LAWS. SEDITIOUS WORDS IN WRITING ARE SEDITIOUS LIBEL. A SEDITIONIST IS ONE WHO ENGAGES IN OR PROMOTES THE INTERESTS OF SEDITION.
High crimes and misdemeanors is a phrase from Section 4 of Article Two of the United States Constitution: “The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”
“High” in the legal parlance of the 18th century means “against the State”. A high crime is one which seeks the overthrow of the country, which gives aid or comfort to its enemies, or which injures the country to the profit of an individual or group. In democracies and similar societies it also includes crimes which attempt to alter the outcome of elections.
An alien who is present in a country (which is foreign to him/her) unlawfully or without the country’s authorization is known as an illegal alien of that country.[2] An illegal alien commonly refers to a foreign national who resides in another country unlawfully, either by entering that country at a place other than a designated port-of-entry or as result of the expiration of a non-immigrant visa. An enemy alien is an alien who is a national of an enemy country.
Malfeasance the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing (used especially of an act in violation of a public trust).
Nonfeasance is to ignore and take no indicated action – neglect. Misfeasance is to take inappropriate action or give intentionally incorrect advice. Malfeasance is hostile, aggressive action taken to injure the client’s interests.
Example: A company hires a catering company to provide drinks and food for a retirement party. If the catering company doesn’t show up, it’s considered nonfeasance. If the catering company shows up but only provides drinks (and not the food, which was also paid for), it’s considered misfeasance. If the catering company accepts a bribe from its client’s competitor to undercook the meat, thereby giving those present food poisoning, it’s considered malfeasance.
Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening another entity through subversion, obstruction, disruption, or destruction. In a workplace setting, sabotage is the conscious withdrawal of efficiency generally directed at causing some change in workplace conditions. One who engages in sabotage is a saboteur.
The RICO Act focuses specifically on racketeering, and it allows for the leaders of a syndicate to be tried for the crimes which they ordered others to do or assisted them, closing a perceived loophole that allowed someone who told a man to, for example, murder, to be exempt from the trial because they did not actually do it.
RICO is codified as Chapter 96 of Title 18 of the United States Code, 18 U.S.C. § 1961–1968. While its original use was to prosecute the Mafia as well as others who were actively engaged in organized crime, its application has been more widespread.
It has been speculated that the name and acronym were selected in a sly reference to the movie Little Caesar, which featured a notorious gangster named Rico. PUBLIC HANGING SHOULD BE BROGHT BACK.
Please be aware that this is happening throughout every Department of the government. This was my worst fear, the lingering effects of this clearly subversive and destructive administration will last for years.
Like this isn’t done by every administration. Most law firms would not have hired Goodling to empty their garbage. From Whereistheoutrage:
Monica Goodling — Goodling was the most notorious graduate of Pat Robertson’s Regent University during her tenure in the Justice Department. As the White House liaison at the DOJ, she based the department’s hiring of candidates on their sexual preference, GOP loyalty, and adherence to conservative ideology.
“Like this isn’t done by every administration”. REALLY??? Did you want to rethink that? What do you know and pray tell, HOW would you know it? This sounds like a gratuitous knee jerk reaction that has “It’s Bush’s fault” written all over it. If you can read everything Christian and Andrew McCarthy has documented, and still ask a stupid question like the one above, you probably don’t know what the DOJ does. I suggest you may speak English as a second language??? GOOD LUCK.
I agree that all appear to be ideologe/political hires except for Ms. GOld from Miami. Her background sounds like a typical prosceutor who deals with child sex and rape cases. I just don’t knwo why she’d want to be in the DOJ or civil rights. State prosecutors can have a much bigger ipact in thsoe areas then the Feds.
DOJ???
Only for Black Trash and Muslims!
All of these AHs will be prosecuted and hung for treason in the next administration!
“… Otherwise, Americans will stop it next year at the ballot box.”
Sorry – but THE AUTHOR – of ALL people – SHOULD KNOW BETTER!
THESE PEOPLE ARE THERE **FOR LIFE!**
Still, I pray EVERY DAY that this can be stopped at the ballot-box – otherwise it may only be solvable with “the FOURTH box”…
Giddy help us – and GOD SAVE OUR REPUBLIC!
“GIDDY help us?”
DAMN YOU, SWYPE!
That’s “GOD help us – and GOD SAVE OUR REPUBLIC!”
I know the Republican candidates all want to “create jobs” (and thankfully, for most of them that means “get out of the way of job creation”), but I look forward (hopefully) that this article turns into a list of PINK SLIPS to be unceremoniously handed out ON Inauguration Day….
Nothing mentioned about the Public Corruption Unit. Is that not part of this group? This explains why fraud upon the court by prosecutors, officers and judges is OK when a white person is the victim. Honest services is a thing of the past for the bar apparently, now it’s politics all the way in court.
Fraud is rampent in tort law, facilitated by “alternative defenses” policy. Rulings don’t even make sense as the judges are perjuring in their rulings and there is virtually no oversight.
Every lawyer in legislative or executive office has a conflict of interest in acting as a “check” on the judiciary (meaning it won’t happen).
Thus truth in court is not policy, nihilism and politics are.
Obama once… but not twice.
More of Adams’ bullshit.
Where was Adams when Monica Goodling was filling DOJ with graduates of Patrick Henry College and Pat Robertson’s Regent Law School? Remember Monica Goodling — you know, the half-witted twit who told Congress her job was to fill DOJ with attorneys who “support the policies of George Bush?”
Rightwingers — dog shit stupid and batshit crazy — every one of you.