WASHINGTON – Empower Oversight has uncovered shocking documents that reveal political bias and abuse in FBI security clearance probes against employees who expressed support for President Trump or opposition to COVID-19 vaccine mandates. In the FBI Security Division’s investigative file of an Empower Oversight client, documents show a preprinted interview outline that lists several specific …
WASHINGTON – Empower Oversight is pressing for records that could expose the lack of disciplinary measures taken against Supervisory Special Agent John Morris related to his role in the scandal over the FBI’s mishandling of mob boss/informant Whitey Bulger. Bulger was a Boston crime mob boss who served as an FBI confidential informant for 15 …
WASHINGTON – Empower Oversight continues to increase the pressure on the Justice Department and push for details about the department’s management of the personnel who are handling of the lawsuits involving Hunter Biden. In April, Empower Oversight expressed concern that in the Department’s prosecution of Hunter Biden in Delaware and California, as well as in …
WASHINGTON – In what appears to be an unprecedented move, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has fully reinstated whistleblower Marcus Allen’s security clearance after improperly revoking it. Allen made protected disclosures regarding congressional testimony of FBI Director Christopher Wray following the events of Jan. 6, 2021. The FBI retaliated against Allen, a decorated U.S. Marine …
WASHINGTON – Empower Oversight is again pressing the Securities and Exchange Commission for additional records regarding the public declarations that multiple cryptocurrencies were not a security by both William Hinman, the former director of the Corporate Finance Division, and Jay Clayton, the former Chairman of the SEC. Through previous Freedom of Information Act requests, Empower …
WASHINGTON – Empower Oversight is renewing its request for records related to the Criminal Justice Information Services’ Assistant Director Michael Christman who is the subject of multiple complaints by current and former employees. The agency denied Empower Oversight’s original request, citing a Glomar defense, meaning that the agency neither confirms nor denies the existence of …
WASHINGTON – IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler have taken the significant step with the United States District Court in Washington, D.C. to file a motion to intervene in the Hunter Biden lawsuit against the IRS to ensure their interests are represented in the lawsuit. The whistleblowers filed the motion to intervene so they …
WASHINGTON – In a significant turn of events, counsel for IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley have learned that a March 11, 2024, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filing appears to have intentionally misled the public by falsely implying that Shapley, and fellow IRS whistleblower Joseph Ziegler, were under investigation for misconduct. The Office of David Weiss, …
WASHINGTON – Empower Oversight has filed a motion with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to unseal documents regarding the Department of Justice’s subpoenas of the personal phone and email records of members of Congress and a dozen or more attorneys for congressional committees, including Empower Oversight’s founder, Jason Foster, while they …
WASHINGTON – Empower Oversight is pressing the FBI to go back to the drawing board after what it says was an inadequate search of the FBI’s records in the whistleblower organization’s inquiry about a tip to the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office in the Whitey Bulger case. Empower Oversight received an allegation two years ago …