WASHINGTON – In two new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Empower Oversight is seeking additional information about the FBI’s retaliation against various FBI employees. Some of the information may demonstrate that a high-ranking FBI official provided more false or misleading information to Congress than previously known. The …
WASHINGTON – A federal judge has granted Empower Oversight’s motion to intervene in a case where the Department of Justice (DOJ) subpoenaed the activity logs of the personal phone and email accounts of members of Congress and a dozen or more attorneys of both political parties for congressional committees. In an opinion, the Chief Judge …
“Today Hunter Biden pled guilty to nine criminal tax charges, including three felonies, but on May 15, 2023, one of David Weiss’s prosecutors offered Hunter Biden a deferred prosecution agreement that didn’t require even a single guilty plea. That was the same day the IRS retaliated against SSA Gary Shapley by removing his entire team …
WASHINGTON – This week Empower Oversight filed a response in a whistleblower retaliation case blasting the United States Secret Service (USSS) for attempting to delay accountability by postponing the case until 2025. The employee blew the whistle on the USSS’s lowering of standards for applicants in 2018, which the whistleblower believed could contribute to a …
WASHINGTON – Empower Oversight today filed an action with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to compel the Department of Justice to comply with its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests about the department’s secretly collecting communications records belonging to members of Congress and their attorneys, disregarding serious constitutional separation of powers, …
WASHINGTON – Multiple Federal Air Marshal whistleblowers represented by Empower Oversight shared new information through protected disclosures to Congress about the Quiet Skies program run by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Empower Oversight helped the whistleblowers disclose years of ineffectiveness and wasted resources while urging elected official to protect the whistleblowers and probe the TSA …
WASHINGTON – The IRS whistleblowers who revealed the preferential treatment given to Hunter Biden as the president’s son are still fighting to have their voices heard in Biden’s lawsuit against the IRS, which falsely accuses Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler of violating tax secrecy laws. Despite the obviously meritless basis for the frivolous suit against …
WASHINGTON – The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has opened a “leak” investigation into the release of information regarding eight flights on which Air Marshals surveilled former presidential candidate and member of Congress Tulsi Gabbard, Empower Oversight has learned. The move improperly targets Federal Air Marshals (FAMs) who blew the whistle on the wasted resources and …
WASHINGTON – Empower Oversight is pressing the Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General to immediately conduct oversight of Federal Air Marshals Service surveillance programs, as it revealed another whistleblower had come forward more than two years ago to express concern about the programs. In July 2021, a Federal Air Marshal, represented by …
WASHINGTON – Today Empower Oversight announced its representation of a recently retired Secret Service special agent in his whistleblower retaliation case against the agency. The case is before the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, where it was recently remanded for a hearing on the merits. In early 2018 the Secret Service whistleblower disclosed to his …