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Report: DOJ Routinely Lets High-Ranking Officials Get Away With Crimes, Policy Violations

Ashe Schow
Report: DOJ Routinely Lets High-Ranking Officials Get Away With Crimes, Policy Violations
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A new report highlights how the Department of Justice routinely fails to prosecute high-ranking department officials despite criminal referrals from the department’s inspector general.

RealClearInvestigations (my former employer) examined several instances of DOJ employees committing crimes but not getting prosecuted. For example, an FBI attorney shoplifted from the Marine Corps Base Quantico Exchange multiple times before getting caught with $257.99 worth of stolen cosmetics. She admitted to also stealing from other stores but wasn’t prosecuted.

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