Posted on 03/08/2018 3:41:49 PM PST by saywhatagain
A former corporate-fraud prosecutor carried out the “most serious” example of public corruption by a U.S. Department of Justice attorney in years by stealing more than 40 whistleblower fraud cases in 2016 and trying to sell the secret information to companies under federal investigation, prosecutors said.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The scheme was an attempt to woo potential clients and increase his earnings and standing in his new role as a defense lawyer for one of Washington’s most influential law firms, according to prosecutors and admissions by Jeffrey Wertkin at his sentencing Wednesday.
After his arrest for one shakedown attempt, Wertkin embarked on an “obstruction binge” at his private law office to destroy additional evidence of his year-long plot and also tried to frame a former colleague at the Justice Department for the records theft, court files show.
Wertkin’s sentencing hearing revealed a more extensive and calculating crime than previously was made public, showing he stole and copied dozens of files — taking some at night from his boss’s desk at main Justice, copying them and returning them re-stapled — and then reached out to targeted companies in four states to try to drum up business for himself.
“No Department is perfect....”
Most serious? I’m way more worried about an attempted coup by the intelligence community and by mass domestic spying.
If Sessions would get his fanny in gear, this headline might read “Second Most Serious....”
This sob mofo, Jeffrey Wertkin, needs to be tied to a tree and set on fire.
He’s a Lieyah.
A gov’t one.
Therefore EXEMPT.
Yep. But they can’t be telling us the truth. It’s against the Rules (versus Rule of Law).
It’s almost he walked off with stacks and stacks of FBI files for later use.
DOJ and FBI are huge part of the swamp
This kind of behavior is begotten from the culture of corruption that was encouraged by Holder and Lynch. it is just inevitable stuff that happens when the underlings see their superiors engage in legally questionable activities. They think that the aim of the organization is to enable “cashing in”.
“This sob mofo, Jeffrey Wertkin, needs to be tied to a tree and set on fire.”
He’s just one of hundreds or maybe even thousands in our government at all levels who have settled in to not only steal from us from their salary and benefits standpoint, but do stuff like this because they have convinced themselves that they deserve more.
We had a local cop here in our little town here in CA that was “in the employ” of a PI who was, in turn, in the employ of a local female divorce lawyer. The deal was that the PI would get a couple of bimbos to “meet” a divorcing man in a watering hole, liquor him up, then “invite him to their place” for a hot tub party. The cop was in on the deal and would arrest the man for DUI to soften him up for the lawyer. The good news is all three of them, the cop, the PI and the lawyer are currently in state prison.
Public corruption is at ALL levels of government. Fewer people is an obvious partial answer.
“This sob mofo, Jeffrey Wertkin, needs to be tied to a tree and set on fire.”
Why? The tree did nothing to anyone!
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