A federal judge angrily accused Justice Department attorneys in newly unsealed documents of "fraud upon the court" by intimidating a witness in a case involving a former Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent who alleges the agency trashed his reputation.
Judge Francis Allegra, who was appointed to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in 1998 by President Bill Clinton, is presiding over a suit brought by former ATF agent Jay Dobyns against the government agency, which he claims retaliated against him and damaged his reputation. Dobyns infiltrated Hell's Angels and worked on cases involving the Aryan Brotherhood and MS-13 during his law enforcement career.
In a newly unsealed, Dec. 1, 2014, court ruling that legal experts said was highly unusual, Allegra accused seven Justice Department lawyers of "fraud upon the court, banned them from making any further filings in the case and took the unusual step of directly notifying Attorney General Eric Holder.
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3 comments:
The BATF should have been disbanded with the Volstead Act. The agency was created to collect tax on alcohol, but has since morphed into what it is today. Its just another agency to tell you what you can and can not do, even though the Constitution GUARANTEES us the rights that they continually take away.
I, for one, would not tell a Hell's Angel, Aryan Brotherhood or MS13 member what he could or could not do, not without overwhelming backup on my side.
Where are the rest of our judges like Judge Francis Allegra? Judges with character and morals and the guts to confront corruption and lawlessness within the federal gov't.
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