Wires and corporate press also on it: The Guardian, The Hill, Fox News
Outlets posting about it
emptywheel· Mon 17:19
The guy representing Douglas DePodesta in his wrongful termination lawsuit (which accuses Andrew Boutros of several kinds of false claims), Ron Safer, is the guy who beat the shit out of FBI Agent Bryan Witt last week on behalf of Brad Benavides.
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emptywheel· Mon 17:11
Douglas DePodesta Accuses US Attorney Andrew Boutros of Lying
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CHICAGO (AP) — The former head of the FBI’s Chicago field office says he lost his job after being wrongly blamed for prosecutions that fell apart against six people who protested the federal immigration crackdown in the city, according to a lawsuit he filed Monday. Douglas DePodesta, a 24-year veteran of the FBI, says…
The lawsuit brought Monday by Chicago’s former FBI boss undercuts a key claim made by U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros’ office about the politically charged “Broadview Six” case — one that a judge had already sought to put under a microscope. Boutros’ office told U.S. District Judge April Perry in March that there were…
The guy representing Douglas DePodesta in his wrongful termination lawsuit (which accuses Andrew Boutros of several kinds of false claims), Ron Safer, is the guy who beat the shit out of FBI Agent Bryan Witt last week on behalf of Brad Benavides.
The guy who used to run Chicago's FBI office, Douglas DePodesta, just accused Andrew Boutros of a number of lies in a wrongful termination lawsuit. The post Douglas DePodesta Accuses US Attorney Andrew Boutros of Lying appeared first on emptywheel.
Chicago’s former FBI boss sued top Trump administration officials Monday alleging that he resigned under duress after Chicago U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros sought to blame him for the implosion of the politically charged "Broadview Six" case. Douglas DePodesta's lawsuit marks another extraordinary development in the…
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