Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin shares his insights on the FBI’s recent grand conspiracy probe, the implications of venue changes for prosecutions, and the challenges of holding powerful figures accountable. Then, Jason Foster, the founder of the Empower Oversight Whistleblower Center and former chief investigative counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee, discusses the classified annex …
Transparency groups are growing frustrated that the Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) is maintaining positions in some cases previously held by the Biden administration. Organizations like the Oversight Project, Empower Oversight and Judicial Watch are waiting for movement on dozens of pending Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) cases, expressing disappointment that the DOJ is not …
The Polaris Project, which oversees the hotline that whistleblowers say regularly fails to refer tips to law enforcement for investigation, has longstanding ties to the Department of Health and Human Services office that oversees its grant, raising concerns about whether the nonprofit is facing proper scrutiny for its contract.Polaris, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit that administers …
A watchdog organization is pressing the Department of Health and Human Services for information related to a potential conflict of interest in its management of the National Human Trafficking Hotline. Empower Oversight filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) public records request Wednesday with HHS for records related to the Polaris Project, the nonprofit being paid to …
A federal watchdog and lawmakers want to see better management of the National Human Trafficking Hotline. Empower Oversight is pressing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to extend its deadline for applicants to operate the hotline; the current application deadline is May 30, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. The contract pays up to $9 million …
Americans should continue to be “unhappy” with the pace of disclosures from the Department of Justice (DOJ), incoming head of the Weaponization Working Group Ed Martin told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Martin said during an interview Thursday that there are “a lot of impediments” to getting information out but confirmed he is working with …
The Polaris Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that administers the National Human Trafficking Hotline, regularly fails to refer tips to law enforcement for investigation, whistleblowers told the Senate Judiciary Committee, confirming an earlier complaint from a bipartisan group of state attorneys general. The Polaris Project in 2023 received $4,831,020 in government grants, according to the charity’s IRS filings. …
A whistleblower has come forward to confirm allegations brought by over 40 attorneys general that the nonprofit Polaris Project, contracted by the federal government to run the National Human Trafficking Hotline, routinely fails to pass along pertinent trafficking tips to law enforcement. Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), wrote a letter Monday laying out the whistleblower …
Hunter Biden on Wednesday dropped the lawsuit he filed against two Internal Revenue Service whistle-blowers in September 2023. Biden’s attorneys brought a motion in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to dismiss the lawsuit with prejudice, meaning the case cannot be brought again in any court. The lawsuit, initially filed by the former …
Hunter Biden has agreed to drop his federal lawsuit against IRS whistle-blowers who publicly argued federal investigations against then-President Joe Biden’s son were being mishandled by their agency and by the Justice Department. “Intimidation and retaliation were never going to work,” IRS supervisory special agent Gary Shapley and IRS special agent Joseph Ziegler, who publicly raised concerns …