The Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Inspector General has declined to investigate allegations from FBI whistleblower William McGrath, who says the bureau retaliated against him for refusing an order that would have compromised the life of a confidential informant.
McGrath on June 6 provided The Epoch Times with the letter from DOJ assistant inspector general Sean O’Neill, who told him no investigation will be conducted into the “renewed allegations” McGrath has been pursuing for more than 20 years.
“Having carefully considered your April 1, 2022, email and the six attachments to it that, according to your email, support your allegations, we are declining to open an investigation,” O’Neill told McGrath in the letter dated June 6.
McGrath, whose story The Epoch Times first reported in May, contends that his allegations have never been properly investigated. The Senate Committee on Homeland Security is currently considering his case, leaving him in “waiting mode” for now, he said.
McGrath’s roughly 25-year saga began when he was a special agent investigating Russian organized crime in 1997.
According to McGrath—who provided records to corroborate his story—his bosses at the bureau wanted him to use a confidential informant to record a phone call with a prominent New York politician. McGrath declined to name the public official, but said that person was never charged with a crime and is in a more prominent position today than he was in 1997.
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