Another in an ongoing series:
Dear Senator Fetterman;
I'd like to ask you again about AG Pam Bondi. And I am asking you for a comment since you voted to confirm her appointment to Attorney General.
Recently, your Democratic colleagues in Congress wrote a letter to AG Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel that started with this paragraph:
We write with serious concerns about recent reports indicating that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is shuttering its Public Integrity Section and dissolving a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) squad focused on public corruption. These moves follow the Trump Administration’s decisions to shut down or otherwise scale back enforcement of laws that prohibit corruption and white-collar crime. DOJ’s refusal to enforce anti-corruption laws betrays the public trust and will create lasting harm to Americans’ faith in the integrity of government officials.
NBC reported:
The Trump administration is gutting the Justice Department's unit that oversees prosecutions of public officials accused of corruption, three sources who spoke on condition of anonymity told NBC News.
The unit, the Public Integrity Section, has overseen some of the country’s most high-profile and sensitive prosecutions. Now, though, only a small fraction of its employees will remain, and the unit will no longer directly handle investigations or prosecutions, two sources said.
Later in the letter, there's this paragraph:
By shuttering the public corruption work of both the FBI and DOJ, you and President Trump are giving the green light to would-be lawbreakers. This is just part of the Trump Administration’s creation of a two-tiered system of justice—one for large corporations and President Trump’s wealthy friends, and another for everyone else.
Senator, do you agree with your Congressional colleagues? And did you think that AG Bondi was capable of this action when you voted to confirm her?
I'll await your answer.
As always, I'll post here whatever answer I get from the Senator.
